Believe it or not - Malaysians have the most friends and are also the heaviest users of social networking sites on the planet.This is according to the latest survey by global market research firm TNS in its largest ever study into people's online activities and behaviour.Malaysians have an average of 233 digital friends, followed by 231 in Brazil and 217 in Norway.On the other end of the spectrum, Japanese have the fewest with 29, followed by 38 in Tanzania and 50 in South Korea.TNS chief development officer Matthew Froggatt said that the results could suggest "a culture that embraces fewer but closer friendships" in some countries.

Nazri: Indians are rightful citizens

All Indians who are born in Malaysia are not immigrants but rightful citizens of the country and they are eligible to enjoy their rights like other citizens, declared an outspoken senior Umno leader."The mothers of Indians born in Malaysia have spilled their blood on the soil of the nation when they delivered them into this world," Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz said."Hence they are the sons of the Malaysian soil, as sung in our national anthem negara ku, tanah tumpahnya darahku (My country, the soil where my blood was shed)," explained the Padang Rengas MP."It is the Indonesians who come to our country (legally or illegally) who are the immigrants and not you Indians who were born here," the de facto law minister added.

MP Wee witnessed Rahimi sign SD, claims PKR man

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12 — Kedah PKR Youth Chief Saiful Izham Ramli said today that Wangsa Maju MP Wee Choo Keong had witnessed Rahimi Osman sign one of two contentious statutory declarations (SD) on June 29, 2008.Saiful claimed that that the former PKR lawmaker acted as the commissioner of oaths when the SD was drafted.“My statement to the police was that on June 28, 2008 in a room at Quality Hotel Shah Alam... I had taken statements from potential witnesses that were working and had worked at the office of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Around midnight, a man named Rahimi Osman came to the room and gave his statement.

Transport Ministry probes bus crash which claimed 12 lives

SEREMBAN, Oct 11 – The transport ministry has launched a probe into a horrific road crash involving two buses, van and two cars at the 223km of the North-South Expressway near the Simpang Ampat toll plaza, which claimed 12 lives yesterday.Transport Minister Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha said he had instructed the Road Transport Department (RTD), Road Safety Department (RSD) and Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros) to carry out the probe.“The express bus involved in the accident is new and was registered in 2007. Initial investigations revealed that the bus had also undergone regular inspections at Puspakom, with the latest being in May.“However, we will conduct further investigation on the bus’ steering and brake system,” he told reporters after visiting survivors of the crash at Tuanku Jaafar Hospital here today.

Lee Kuan Yew – a different man without her

IN A grieving eulogy at his wife’s funeral, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said in a tone that was at times hardly audible: “Without her I would be a different man, with a different life... At this moment of the final parting, my heart is heavy with sorrow and grief.”Kwa Geok Choo, a pillar of his life for 62 years, passed away last Saturday at age 89 after being bedridden and unable to speak or move for two years.Three days before her demise, Lee himself was admitted to hospital for a chest infection after a fall while on a visit to Moscow. His words “without her I would be a different man” evidently referred to the past, but under the circumstances, they may well be applied to the present.

The lengthy sodomy trial against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took yet another twist on Wednesday when his lawyers were accused of having a hand in two dubious statutory declarations implicating Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife in the ongoing trial.In his police report, Anwar's former aide Rahimi Osman said that he was forced to do so by PKR lawyers Latheefa Koya and Saiful Izham Ramli.The little-known 25-year-old, worked for Anwar from 2007 to 2008. In an interview yesterday, Latheefa, who is also PKR information chief, traced the events surrounding the signing of the two refuted declarations, beginning on June 28, 2008.

Files removed from Sosilawati murder suspect's legal firm

BANTING: Hundreds of files were removed from the legal firm of the main suspect in the murders of cosmetics millionaire Sosilawati Lawiya and three others, here, today. The files were loaded into a two-tonne lorry by three workers including the driver watched by several police officers and policemen.Reporters and photographers noticed this about 3.30pm when they stopped for a drink at a nearby restaurant opposite the Kuala Langat police district headquarters.More than an hour later, the lorry carrying the files left for an unknown destination.