SPEAKING at the Muslim Students Leadership Convention on 26 July 2009, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said he wanted “to see student leaders with dynamic and healthy minds in terms of airing views and opinions”. “I just hope that you can uphold the principle of intellectual honesty in assessing and scrutinising certain issues which […]
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Third influenza A(H1NI) case detected
KUALA LUMPUR, 4 June 2009: A Malaysian student who returned from the US after a holiday has become the third person to have contracted Influenza A(H1N1) in the country. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said the 23-year-old student arrived at the KL International Airport (KLIA) on Malaysia Airlines flight MH091 at 7.15am […]
Student arrested for dumping baby
KUANTAN, 29 May 2009: A female student of a religious secondary school, near here, was arrested after admitting that she had dumped her baby boy near a house in Balok Makmur yesterday. Kuantan police chief ACP Mohd Jasmani Yusoff said the 16-year-old’s mother had brought her daughter to the Kuantan police headquarters around 11am. “The […]
Student who was almost raped sues UiTM
SHAH ALAM, 27 May 2009: A Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) student, who was almost raped while taking a bath at her college six months ago, is suing the university for negligence. The 21-year-old student, who is in second year at the Faculty of Hotel Management and Tourism, filed the suit through her lawyer, Mohamed Hanipa […]
Student involvement in crimes rising
KUALA LUMPUR, 31 March 2009: In the past two years, murder, rape, armed robbery and rioting no longer appears to be the domain of seasoned criminals. Since 2007, the police have detected an increase in the number of cases involving students aged between 13 and 18, who have been linked to such crimes. Understandably, Inspector-General […]
Cops pick up four over student’s murder
PORT DICKSON, 2 Feb 2009: Police have arrested three men and a woman to facilitate investigations into the abduction of a college student whose body was found near a Sua Betong plantation here yesterday. Negeri Sembilan police chief SAC I Datuk Osman Salleh said the woman and one of the male suspects were foreign nationals. […]
Driver killed, 23 pupils hurt in bus accident
PENANG, 2 Feb 2009: A driver was killed while 23 pupils were injured when the school bus they were travelling in plunged into a river at Jalan Masjid Negeri here today. Penang traffic staff officer DSP Wari Kiew said the bus driver, Koe Joan Huat, who was in his 40s, died at the scene while […]
Teacher claims trial to sodomising boy
KLANG, 21 Jan 2009: A primary school teacher was charged in the Sessions Court here today with two counts of performing unnatural sex on a 14-year-old boy in August last year. Badrul Akmal Ishak, 30, pleaded not guilty and claimed trial to both the charges. On the first charge, he was alleged to have performed […]
