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  • "The tigers, locally called datuk [a local honorable title], appear in the middle of the village and roar loudly while people are resting," Miswanto told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.

    The Jakarta Post Breaking News 2010

  • Three anonymous men calling themselves the "datuk trio," now exposed and under police investigation, showed a group of hand-picked journalists a video purporting to depict the former deputy prime minister having sex with a female prostitute a month earlier.

    Dirty Tricks in Malaysia 2011

  • Labels: "readings", bernice chauly, datuk shanmugalingam, feroz merican, hishamuddin rais, jit murad, seksan's posted by bibliobibuli at 1: 46 PM

    Archive 2005-05-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Labels: "readings", bernice chauly, datuk shanmugalingam, feroz merican, hishamuddin rais, jit murad, seksan's posted by bibliobibuli at 1: 46 PM

    A New Home for Words Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Kam Raslan was first up, reading more of his novel about his datuk.

    A Surfeit of Readings Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Kam Raslan was first up, reading more of his novel about his datuk.

    Archive 2005-04-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Labels: building a writing community, datuk shanmugalingam, raman, ruhayat x, silverfish, silverfish new writing posted by bibliobibuli at 11: 17 AM

    Archive 2005-05-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Labels: building a writing community, datuk shanmugalingam, raman, ruhayat x, silverfish, silverfish new writing posted by bibliobibuli at 11: 17 AM

    A Lazy Colony of Silverfish?? Sharon Bakar 2005

  • ‘Celebrity’ here means Menteri2, Timbalan Menteri, Datuk-datuk, Tan Sri-Tan Sri who are too heavy or too old to run.

    natinski Diary Entry natinski 2003

  • Our Datoos [_datuk_, a chief] were indeed great men!

    Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

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