51.   Taiwan police say Chin used his status as commercial representative on Taiwan for the Malaysian state of Sabah to help gangsters smuggle guns on to the island.

52.   The drought aggravated hundreds of forest and peat fires in several Malaysian states last month, but officials said all were extinguished by the end of February.

53.   The closures came in two division in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, Bernama news agency reported.

54.   The delegation will hold a seminar for Kuwaiti businessmen who until now do not have any investments in the Malaysian state of Kelantan.

55.   The fundamentalist Muslim opposition government in a Malaysian state will ban women from wearing bikinis and from sharing swimming pools with men, a news report said Saturday.

56.   The Daily Express publishes in Sabah, a Malaysian state on Borneo Island.

57.   The floods in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo followed tropical storm Greg, which hit with unexpected intensity Thursday.

58.   The Islamic government in a northeastern Malaysian state has banned all public performances that it feels are un-Islamic, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

59.   The Islamic government of a Malaysian state says it will lift a ban on a traditional puppet show if its main Hindu characters are replaced with Islamic ones.

60.   The islands -- Sipadan and Ligitan -- are between the eastern Indonesian province of East Kalimantan and the Malaysian state of Sabah.