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MNA International Desk: Najib Razak has been charged with corruption, a dramatic fall from grace for the former Malaysian prime minister two months after he lost office, reported news agency. He faces three counts of criminal breach of trust and one count of abuse of power. Mr Najib has long been accused of pocketing $700m (£517m) from the state development fund 1MDB, which he set up. He denies wrongdoing. A new investigation began after his shock election loss in May. Mr Najib was arrested by anti-corruption authorities on Tuesday and spent the night in detention. In a video posted on ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Malaysian-Chinese rapper Namewee has detained to four days’ police custody for allegedly insulting Islam in his music video on Monday, as media reported. Namewee, whose real name is Wee Meng Che, has been detained under section 295 of the Penal Code for “injuring or defiling a place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class.” His music video — Oh My God!, which he posted on his YouTube channel on Saturday, showed him rapping inside a church, a Buddhist temple and a mosque, and showed the floating mosque in Tanjung Bungah of ...