PUTRAJAYA: Respect Malay-sia's legal system.

In issuing this reminder to certain foreign governments, which have begun meddling and protesting against the on-going sodomy trial of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Wisma Putra said the sanctity of the Malaysian judiciary remained intact and free of external influences.

KUALA LUMPUR: Police arrested 969 foreigners last year for drugs and drug-related offences.

They are all believed to have been charged, with 225 facing the mandatory death penalty if convicted.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Information, Communication and Culture Ministry and other authorities will intensify monitoring and surveillance of websites and blogs to clamp down on sensitive and seditious postings.

A ministry officer who did not want to be named said they had been monitoring issues long before the existence of blogs.

KUALA LUMPUR: Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Minister Senator Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin said the Federal Territories is targeting to eliminate hardcore poverty by the end of the year.

For this, he said, the ministry was training 148 heads of hardcore poor households and 390 heads of poor households in Kuala Lumpur and Labuan in handicraft-making, tailoring and entrepreneurship to enable them to secure jobs or be self-employed.