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  2. Emergency (Public Order and Crime Prevention) Ordinance, 1969

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    The Emergency (Public Order and Crime Prevention) Ordinance, 1969 (Malay: Ordinan Darurat (Ketenteraman Awam dan Mencegah Jenayah), 1969), commonly abbreviated as the Emergency Ordinance (EO), was a Malaysian law whose most well-known provision allows for indefinite detention without trial.

  3. List of loanwords in Malay - Wikipedia

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    Malay as spoken in Malaysia (Bahasa Melayu) and Singapore, meanwhile, have more borrowings from English. [1] There are some words in Malay which are spelled exactly the same as the loan language, e.g. in English – museum (Indonesian), hospital (Malaysian), format, hotel, transit etc.

  4. Detention basin - Wikipedia

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    Dry pond on brook to reduce floods, near Děčín, Czech Republic. A detention basin or retarding basin is an excavated area installed on, or adjacent to, tributaries of rivers, streams, lakes or bays to protect against flooding and, in some cases, downstream erosion by storing water for a limited period of time.

  5. Sediment basin - Wikipedia

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    A sediment basin is a temporary pond built on a construction site to capture eroded or disturbed soil that is washed off during rain storms, and protect the water quality of a nearby stream, river, lake, or bay. The sediment-laden soil settles in the pond before the runoff is discharged.

  6. Retention basin - Wikipedia

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    It is distinguished from a detention basin, sometimes called a "dry pond", which temporarily stores water after a storm, but eventually empties out at a controlled rate to a downstream water body. It also differs from an infiltration basin which is designed to direct stormwater to groundwater through permeable soils.

  7. Detention pond - Wikipedia

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  8. Prisons Department (Brunei) - Wikipedia

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    The Prisons Department [2] (Malay: Jabatan Penjara) is a government agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs in Brunei, [3] responsible for the management and administration of correctional facilities in accordance with the Prison Act and Prison Rules (Chapter 51 of the State Laws of Brunei Darussalam).

  9. Internal Security Act 1960 - Wikipedia

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    The Internal Security Act 1960 (Malay: Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri 1960, abbreviated ISA) was a preventive detention law in force in Malaysia.The legislation was enacted after the Federation of Malaya gained independence from Britain in 1957.