KUALA LUMPUR: This year marked a major turning point for the country in addressing school safety issues following several heartbreaking incidents involving bullying and crime in educational institutions. Comprehensive reforms were initiated, including the drafting of the Anti-Bullying Bill 2025, which Parliament passed on Dec 3. Additionally, an age limit of 16-years-old for social media use...
JOHOR BARU: A local family is living in fear after being targeted by illegal moneylenders over a loan application submitted by their son in Singapore. Hoo Chong Kang, 58, said his 35-year-old son, who has been working as a lorry driver in Singapore for the past five years, came across a money-lending offer on social media...
KUALA LUMPUR: A Parliamentary Special Select Committee (PSSC) has recommended a review of the 28-day detention period and the definitions of security offences, terrorism-related crimes and organised crime under the controversial Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Act 747). The committee made eight recommendations in its Human Rights, Election and Institutional Reforms report proposing amendments to...
SEREMBAN: An operations director of a transport company with a fleet of 160 trucks has been arrested by police for allegedly using hacked Touch n Go cards. Negri Sembilan police chief Dep Comm Datuk Alzafny Ahmad said the suspect’s wife, who is a foreigner, was also detained in an operation. "We seized 304 Touch n Go cards...
JOHOR BARU: Two security guards claimed trial in two separate Magistrate’s Courts here to charges of impersonating policemen and extorting a couple at Taman Kota Masai in Pasir Gudang last week. The accused, Mohamad Syafiq Zakaria, 29, and Mohamad Sulaiman Ab Rahman, 29, pleaded not guilty after the charges were read before magistrates Nabilah Nizam and...
JOHOR BARU: What was initially thought to be a normal domestic dispute between a husband and wife has now taken a dark turn after the body of a six-year-old boy, reported missing last week, was found buried in Rompin, Negri Sembilan. Kamarudin Abdullah, 47, who stays near the victim’s family, said he often heard the sound...
KOTA KINABALU: A 62-year-old man has been arrested over an alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl at an estate in Lahad Datu. Lahad Datu deputy OCPD Supt Jimmy Panyau said based on information given by the girl, she had fainted behind her house, prior to the incident on Tuesday (June 10). “She said that when she...
JOHOR BARU: Eight individuals involved in a viral video assaulting a man at an apartment in Masai will be charged at the Magistrate’s Court here Friday. The suspects, comprising seven men and one woman aged between 19 and 26, were arrested at around 2.30am on Monday (April 21) at an apartment in Plentong Baru, Masai. Earlier, the...
KLANG: A man believed to be involved in the kidnapping of a teenage girl, was killed following a shootout with the police early Monday (April 14) morning. The 16-year-victim was kidnapped in Seremban but released after the ransom was paid. Bukit Aman deputy Criminal Investigation Department (CID) director Deputy Comm Datuk Fadil Marsus said the victim was...
KULAI: A 40-year-old motorcyclist has been arrested for robbing and injuring two women at different locations here. Kulai OCPD Asst Comm Tan Seng Lee said the first armed robbery took place behind a restaurant in Jalan Seri Putra here, where the suspect was believed to have hacked a 52-year-old Indonesian woman using a parang before fleeing...
