Malaysia Nanban reported that a new bride V. Puvaneswari ditched her husband T. Ramesh to run away with her boyfriend - just one day after their marriage in Kadallur in Tamil Nadu.

It said the newlyweds went for a movie on Aug 31.

While there, the girl introduced Ramesh to two motorcyclists who she said were her relatives.

She told her husband that she wanted to take a ride with one of them while he was asked to follow her with the other motorcyclist. The husband lost sight of his wife after a short distance. He was also dropped off midway.

Sensing that something was wrong, the husband tried to contact his wife's relatives.

But he was shocked to find out that all their numbers had been disconnected.

The husband and the girl's parents later lodged a police report over his missing wife.

>Tamil Nesan reported that two youths were jailed 30 and 38 years respectively after they pleaded guilty to charges of rape, molest and robbery.

The Shah Alam Sessions Court also ordered them to be given two strokes of the cane.

They were charged with raping a 17-year-old girl in a car in Sungai Buloh between 5.40am and 6.40am on Feb 17, 2006 and molesting another 12-year-old girl. The youths also admitted to robbing a 49-year-old lorry driver and a 51-year-old trader in Sungai Buloh.

Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this > sign, it denotes a separate news item.