PUTRAJAYA, 27 Oct 2009: Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S Subramaniam has directed the Labour Department to coordinate with the authorities in prosecuting employers found to have abused their maids. “We will do everything we can to support the authorities as they take legal action against those involved,” he said in a statement here today. […]
Archives for October 2009
Special govt unit to address maid abuse?
KUALA LUMPUR, 27 Oct 2009: The Home Ministry is considering setting up a special unit by pooling the resources of several ministries to find the best way to address cases of maid abuse in the country. Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said today in Parliament that he would raise the matter at the cabinet meeting. […]
Pupils were jumping on bridge before collapse
KAMPAR, 27 Oct 2009: Between 30 and 50 pupils were on a newly-built suspension bridge when it collapsed last night into the swift-flowing Kampar River at Sekolah Kebangsaan Kuala Dipang near here, causing one pupil to drown and two more to go missing. A pupil, K Mathivanan, 12, who held onto a rope and saved […]
1 pupil dead, 2 missing after bridge collapses
KAMPAR, 27 Oct 2009: A pupil drowned and two others are missing after a newly-built suspension bridge collapsed into the Kampar River as pupils, participating in a 1Malaysia camp, were walking across the bridge near here last night. Nineteen other pupils, feared missing at first, have been accounted for and are safe, police said. The […]
Who is Mautik Hani?
By Katrina Jorene Maliamauv
WHO is Mautik Hani? Do we care? This is who she is not: She is not a “statistic”. She is not an “isolated incident”. Mautik Hani was a woman. She was a daughter; she was someone’s friend. Somebody called her “my neighbour”; another called her “my sister”. Mautik Hani had dreams to chase; questions to […]
Small parties, big questions
By Shanon Shah(Pic by barunpatro / sxc.hu) POP quiz — how many registered political parties are there in Malaysia? This is not such an easy question to answer. The official website for the Election Commission (EC) of Malaysia says there are 31 registered political parties to date. But a quick browse shows that the EC actually lists […]
Budget 2010: Goodbye credit cards
By Tony PuaCorrected at 3:25pm, 27 Oct 2009 I MUST say that Budget 2010, announced by Datuk Seri Najib Razak on 23 Oct 2009, contained quite a few surprises for better or for worse. And my observation is from someone who has pored through the government’s budget over the past five years. (Source: babble.com) For one, I’ll […]
Historical threesomes
By Nick ChooPatrick Teoh as US President Franklin D Roosevelt during the script reading of The Yalta ConferenceLAST Tuesday, on 19 Oct 2009, I attended a script reading of The Yalta Conference at the Instant Café House of Arts and Ideas (Chai). It was Japanese playwright Hirata Oriza‘s fictitious account of the wartime meeting held in February […]
Sivarasa: Key witness in Lingam case to be revealed soon
KUALA LUMPUR, 26 Oct 2009: Parti Keadilan Rakyat vice-president R Sivarasa said today he would soon bring to Parliament the missing key witness in Datuk VK Lingam‘s New Zealand trip with former chief justice Tun Eusoff Chin, to keep the case open. The Subang Member of Parliament, however, refused to divulge the identity of the […]
Uthayakumar case: 4 Nov for document request
KUALA LUMPUR, 26 Oct 2009: The Sessions Court today fixed 4 Nov to decide if the prosecution should give documents asked by P Uthayakumar to prepare his defence in the sedition charge against him. Judge Sabariah Othman set the date after hearing submissions by deputy public prosecutor Noorin Badarudin and defence lawyer N Surendran for […]
