"Merdeka Stadium, which they chose, is too close to the city centre and can create massive traffic jams and disrupt businesses, " federal police chief Ismail Omar was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times.

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In Singapore, as the name of the new ETF implies, it tracks the benchmark Straits Times Index.

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The search for people to blame has already claimed one prominent scalp, that of Abdul Kadir Jasin, chief editor of Malaysia's New Straits Times Group, which publishes the main Malay and English-language newspapers.

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