Malaysia beat Cambodia 4-1 in the 2011 SEA Games Group A soccer match on Sunday to top the group at least until the end of the Indonesia-Thailand match later the same day.
Malaysia scored three goals in the first half, but only found the net once in the second half.
Cambodia scored a consolation goal in the second half.
Malaysia now has seven points from three matches, while Indonesia was second with six points from two matches.
The Minang community in Malaysia has plans to set up a Rumah Gadang, or a large house with horn-like roof, in Gombak, Kuala Lumpur as part of efforts to preserve the Minangkabau culture overseas.
“The wish to build the Gadang house has partly materialized through the purchase of a 2 hectare plot of land in Gombak,” said chairman of the Minangkabau Community Union (PIKMM) Buchari Ibrahim on the sidelines of a familial gathering of the Minang community in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday evening.
Buchari said that the union was now in the process of arranging a land ownership certificate.
According to Buhari, the community has 20,000 Malaysian Ringgit to settle the paperwork for the Rumah Gadang.
“Minang people in Jakarta, Surabaya as well as those in West Sumatra have lent their support to the construction of the Rumah Gadang in Malaysia,” he was quoted as saying by Antara news wire.
Also present at the Sunday meeting was an official from the Indonesian embassy, Rusdi MA, and hundreds of Minang people living and working in the country.
Two artists from West Sumatra, Lepay and Bunda (Rafflesia) had been invited to enliven the gathering.
"Songs and pantun [poetic quatrains] recited by Lepay and Bunda, serve to quench the people's longing of homecoming,” said Uni, a waiter at a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, who attended the gathering.
Another union committee member, Syafrinaldi Sa’ad, said that thousands of Minang people were living in the country. The union counts more than 1000 households within its membership.
Two men have been arrested for their alleged attempt to smuggle 6.2 kilograms of shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine) from Malaysia to Jakarta, police say.
Afnal, 33, and Ismail, 31, were arrested at the Bakauheni port in Lampung early on Saturday morning, National Police spokesman Snr.Com. Boy Rafli Amar said Monday in Aceh as reported by kompas.com.
The drugs, contained in coffee packages in bags belonging to Ismail and Afnalas, were uncovered by police officers who checked the luggage of passengers on a Lorena bus at the port.
Worth an estimated Rp 5.5 billion (US$590,000), the drugs are thought to have been smuggled from Malaysia through Belawan port in North Sumatra, and would have been taken to Jakarta, Boy said.
Malaysia's leadersays the country's navy is holding at least seven Somali pirates after thwarting an attempt to hijack a chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
The Royal Malaysian Navy says its commandos injured three pirates in a gunbattle and rescued 23 crew members of the Malaysian-owned MT Bunga Laurel late Thursday.
The navy said in a statement that the rescue was carried out within less than two hours after pirates stormed the vessel with pistols and assault rifles. Crew members had locked themselves in a safe room and activated a distress call.
Prime Minister Najib Razak told a news conference late Friday that autorities are considering whether the pirates should be brought to Malaysia to face trial for the hijack attempt.
The Malaysian national soccer team aims to score 3-0 against Indonesia in the first match of the final round of the Southeast Asian Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup 2010, which will be held at the Bukit Jalil national stadium in Kuala Lumpur on Dec. 26.
“I predict that we will win 3-0 here,” the vice chairman of the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM), Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
He added that a 3-0 score would increase the chances of a Malaysian victory in the second match of the final round, which will be held at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta on Dec.29.
He further said that the Malaysian team was in high spirits and that a win would “be a turning point in the rise of and quality of soccer in this country”.
Indonesian coach Alfred Riedl says fellow AFF Cup finalist Malaysia has become a stronger team after losing to Indonesia in the group stage.
“We have a 50-50 chance. We have beaten Malaysia 5-1 in the group stage, but they are now different,” he said on Sunday as quoted by kompas.com news portal.
Riedl asked his players to concentrate on Malaysia after they twice defeated the Philippines 1-0 in the semifinal leg matches.
Malaysia beat Vietnam 2-0 in the first leg of semifinals and held them to a 0-0 draw in the second.
