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...island that year would have to visit either one of Singapore's two integrated resorts. In addition to that unlikely scenario, every adult 21 and over in Singaporean would have to go to one of the casinos five times a year, and every adult resident of neighboring Malaysian state Johor would have to go twice every year...
...price of chickens and other domestic staples.) In general, Pahamin's strategy is to try to shut down the counterfeiters and their retail outlets, rather than go after consumers. But the outlaws are outwitting the sheriff. One night last September, Pahamin and 100 officers descended on a warehouse in Johor Bahru, some 200 miles southeast of Kuala Lumpur, a transit point that had been under surveillance for months. The building was empty, its occupants apparently warned of the raid. "As sophisticated as we are," concedes Pahamin, "the pirates are more sophisticated...
...paintings of Ahmad Zakii Anwar are best viewed from the vantage of the tropical street where the artist was born in 1955 and still lives. It is lined with rust-mottled Proton sedans and boxy concrete houses, and wedged into the forested hills above the Malaysian port city of Johor Bahru, where the Anwar family has been prominent in politics since Malaysia's independence 50 years ago. Shaded by droopy banana trees, and crisscrossed by stray cats creeping through chain-link fences, the landscape lies somewhere between a sleepy kampong, or Malay village, and a soulless American suburb. "There...
...opposite risk - that of loading his paintings with too much profundity. Across one wall of his rooftop studio is a floor-to-ceiling bookcase stacked with DVDs, many of them the spaghetti westerns that he grew up on as a teenager in the cinema halls of 1970s Johor Bahru. The stark, lonely landscapes of these films have frequently resurfaced on Zakii's canvases. "Art works best when it satisfies the senses," he says, gesturing at the DVDs. "Not the intellect...
...power peacefully, but they have discarded democracy and the rights of the majority, which voted in the Thaksin government. While the minority rejoices, the majority will remain voiceless, helpless and puzzled at the way the power game is being played and how national interest is defined. Loh Seng Hock Johor Bahru, Malaysia...