KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Authorities in a Malaysian city have warned waitresses and female staff of retail outlets that they face a $138 fine if they wear revealing and tight fitting clothes, a news report said Tuesday.

KOTA BAHRU, Malaysia - A Malaysian state is searching for the most soporific soprano. The Islamic government of the northeastern state of Kelantan will hold a lullaby contest for wives singing their husbands to sleep, the state chief minister Nik Aziz Nik Mat announced Saturday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The Islamic government of a northern Malaysian state wants to bar non-Muslim female workers in supermarkets from wearing open-neck blouses and tight skirts, news reports said Thursday.

A Malaysian man earned almost 3,000 ringgit (US$790) and the title of best rat catcher by killing 1,175 of the rodents in three months with a slingshot.