There is a retired bricklayer who builds musical instruments out of scrap materials. By drilling eight holes into a length of PVC piping, he converted it into a flute that he plays to pass the time.

These days, Malaysians prefer to select the durians they buy based on strains. Not only must estate-owners provide good quality and popular durian strains, they must also give these strains catchy nicknames. The durian-sellers of Bukit Mertajam have come up with some catchy, if odd, names for their durians, including "Dog Bathing", "Soong Ai Ling", "Narrowtail", etc.

In an accident between a taxi and sedan, both cars plowed into a ditch beside the road, with a motorcycle crushed between them.

Three bumbling thieves let all their hard work go to waste when they mistook a cheque deposit machine for an ATM. When they tried to open it, an alarm went off and the trio had to flee empty-handed.

A daring Indian con artist has successfully pulled off a chain of frauds across Peninsular Malaysia.

Seven couples had their marriages registered and photographed while on a plane to Hong Kong. The "Weddings in the Sky 2006" event was jointly organised by Cathay Pacific airlines and a local wedding gallery.

An oddly-shaped white turnip has been found. It resembles the lower half of a man's body.

Several enterprising young men have come up with a brilliant business idea of selling cigarette cases decorated with eye-catching phrases and pictures from the Internet. Among the various bits of cyberspace wit and creativity that they have used to decorate their merchandise, two mischievous mathematical equations stand out. One claims to prove that men = angels, the other concludes with certainty that women = devils.

On Tuesday (June 13), a Chinese youth fell asleep behind the wheel of his RM400,000 luxury car while waiting at a traffic light. The incident happened around midnight at the No. 100 roundabout in Klang.

37 year old Luo Lili lost her mother when she was very litle, and after she married she moved to a flat with Indian neighbours, where she was often left alone with her 9 year old son by her husband who needed to go out and work.