Poskod Malaysia

Right, let’s get to the news:

• One of the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP)’s RM67 billion projects is the Malaysian Nuclear Power Corporation (MNPC), which will develop nuke energy for our future needs. I’ve been playing Fallout to prepare.  (Malaysiakini)
• More than 120 civil society groups agree: the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) for Teoh Beng Hock should look into his death, not just whether the MACC violated his human rights. (The Malaysian Insider)
• Which bits of Abdullah Hussain’s Interlok are offending people — and why these have been taken out of context. (The Star)
• Kuching’s airport has been temporarily shut after an AirAsia plane skidded on the runway. (The Star)
• Horrible violence against homosexuality: male model Renato Seabra confessed to castrating journalist Carlos Castro with a corkscrew to cure the gay activist of his “homosexual demons”. The twist: the two were believed to have been dating. (NY Daily News)
• Videogame giant Sega has debuted a game system controlled — by pee. “Toylets” will allow men who use urinals to play four different minigames as they tinkle. (Aol News)
• The UK navy is fighting pirates with LASERS. It’s a non-lethal device that will enshroud a vessel in green shield that will make it difficult for would-be attackers to steer towards it. (Daily Mail)
• Astronomers have discovered Kepler 10b, an extrasolar planet that — at 1.4 times the size of Earth, and composed of rocky material — is the closest Earth-like planet we know outside our solar system. No aliens, though. The thing orbits its star to closely. (BBC News)
• A 9-year-old Chinese girl putus tangan when she was run over by a tractor. Doctors saved it — by grafting said hand to her leg for three months. The hand has since been re-grafted onto its proper wrist. (Orange News)
• A brief history of conspicuous product placement in movies. (YouTube)

(Image from Anorak News)