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JAKARTA: “Daasshh!” Mr Zakaria, a 90-year-old Indonesian pencak silat master exclaimed as he kicked his right leg high into the air, showing off his martial art skills. Mr Zakaria, who goes by one ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian martial arts film with fast fight sequences has smashed domestic box office records and become the first Indonesian flick to break into the U.S. box office, also ...

THE martial art of silat, indigenous to South-East Asia especially in Indonesia and Malaysia, is growing in popularity among youths in Mersing, Johor. The traditional self-defence technique, passed ...

TAIPING, Dec 24 (Bernama) -- The long-neglected ancestral home of Datuk Meor Abdul Rahman Daeng Uda Mohd Hashim, founder of Malaysia’s Silat Gayung, will soon be restored, Malaysian National Silat ...

Kamarul Ramizu Idris. Who? One can be forgiven if the name does not ring a bell. The father of seven is the independent candidate who is locking horns in a three-way tussle for the Bukit Gantang ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian martial arts film with fast fight sequences has smashed domestic box office records and become the first Indonesian flick to break into the U.S. box office, also ...