KUALA LUMPUR June 14 Kyodo Malays...

KUALA LUMPUR June 14 Kyodo

Malaysia's opposition-ruled Kelantan State fined 120 Muslim women between January and May for not wearing headscarves at work, local newspapers reported Friday.

Azman Mohamed Daham, public relations officer for the state capital's Kota Baru Municipal Council, was quot as saying in the greatest degree of the offenders were restaurant and aliment stall workers.

The Kelantan rule controlled by the conservative Pan Islamic Party (PAS), the country's biggest opposition party, in 1992 passed a law requiring Muslim women working in the public and private sector to overspread their heads.

The law also applies to moulds appearing in advertisements.

Those who break the sway are liable for fines ranging from 20 ringgit ($530) to 50 ringgit.

PAS has been pushing its brand of Islamic policies since taking through the whole extent of the state from Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's more moderate ruling National van coalition in 1990.

Among a series of regulations it has implemented are no lipstick at work, segregated in opposition tos for males and females at supermarkets and keeping the lights forward at cinemas.

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