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Tai Cheau Xuen had tested positive for the banned stimulant sibutramine.

The smoke blanketed Singapore last June, pushing the API to a record 401.

UPDATED 10.41AM MH17 FREE But rebels cautious on foreign presence.

UPDATED 1.11AM FREE MH17 But the separatists deny this and blame Kiev.

UPDATED 11.30AM The Philippine president tells Sultan Jamalul Kiram III to recall 180 followers from a village in Sabah.

Hishammuddin assures that discussions are in progress between the relevant parties to avoid any untoward incidents, including bloodshed.

PAP suffered a stinging rebuke despite promising more reforms and massive public spending to appease a restive electorate.

The Workers' Party took almost 54 percent of the votes cast over PAP's 43 percent in the four-cornered contest in Punggol East.

UPDATED 7.22PM Najib, who is accompanied by his wife, is the first Malaysian prime minister to set foot on Palestine soil.

UPDATED 3.39PM ‘When the police arrived they wasted time in deciding under which police station’s jurisdiction the case fell,’ he says.

UPDATED 12.05PM One man collapsed and died of shock while rushing out of his home, but no other casualties were reported, say authorities.

UPDATED 5.15PM Police said today they had recovered a 12-year-old Dutch boy who was seized six days ago near his house in KL.

UPDATED 7.23PM The former PM was admitted this morning to remove nasal polyps, and will be hospitalised for a few days.

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale rocked Ujung Kulon in Banten province, Java, at 2.26am.

UPDATED 3.35PM The quake triggered tsunami warnings in several countries bordering the Indian Ocean.

UPDATED 7.10PM Malaysia’s stock market website was the target of a cyber attack, making it inaccessible to users due to excessive traffic.

The US offered a RM15 million bounty for Zulkifli Abdul Hir's arrest or capture for his alleged involvement in terrorist attacks in Asia.