Interested persons can visit www.yahoo.com.my, click on the "Matrimony" link to create a personal profile and join a community that shares similar interests based on individual appeal and preferences.
MuslimMatrimonial.com is a site for the Muslim fraternity run by Match International, a US-based online matrimonial service provider.
With this arrangement, millions of Internet users in Malaysia who are Muslim can meet potential life partners using the Web.
The service has more than 100,000 profiles of prospective brides and grooms. "Yahoo! is the most locally relevant Internet service in Malaysia and our partnership with MuslimMatrimonial.com deepens our commitment to connecting people in the country to their communities," said Tom Sipple, interim managing director for Yahoo! South-East Asia.
Dr Mohd Asri bin Zainal Abidin, the mufti of Perlis, commended the site, saying it would be useful to Muslims looking for a life partner.
Actor Radhi Khalid, 43, told In.Tech that he finds the site a good place for making introductions.
"I guess this is only natural because we have gone global (thanks to the Internet and information technology)," he said. "Let's just hope it doesn't turn into an online singles' bar.
It will work if people are honest and don't claim they are younger than they really are or that they have three cars in the garage when they don't."
Yuswanis Yusof, 30, a corporate communications manager for a French multinational, said that while she thinks modern Muslims will go for the idea, traditionalists such as herself would shy away.
"I consider myself a modern Muslim, but I would rather meet the man of my dreams the old-fashioned way ... through friends or a chance encounter somewhere," she said.
According to the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim), Muslim marriages per year have increased from 91,990 in 2000 to 110,951 in 2005.
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