Protect your children yourselves

It is sad indeed that finally we have to acquiesce to the growing consensus that if we want our children to be safe we have to protect them ourselves. Indeed, if we want to be spared the pain, the grief, the sense of loss and anguish and not to be pricked by a sense of [...]

The same Najib 2 years down the road: Where’s the RM4.4b fuel subsidy ’saved’ for public transport trust fund?

By Jeff Ooi
Two years ago, we asked DPM Najib Razak to watch his back for what he said on record. Here’s a blast of the past from the Screenshots archive, March 12, 2006:

MCA Seputeh’s gutter politics

 By Teresa Kok
Elections is around the corner but MCA Seputeh has not announced its candidate yet. Today I felt very cheesed off to read from Chinese papers metro section that a group of Salak South New Village people came out in a press conference with a few of them holding placards criticising me.

CAP: Make management bodies responsible for tanks

CAP president S.M. Mohamed Idris said this is because there was no law in Malaysia that compelled management bodies of high-rise buildings to be responsible for the maintenance of the internal water supply from the meter to the tap.

Victims say ‘medium’ wanted money, sex

KUALA LUMPUR: A con man and his female accomplice fleeced two women of RM17,300 and the man even had sex with one of them, the women claimed yesterday.

DEATH TRAPS IN THE CITY – HOW MANY IZZATS WILL IT TAKE BEFORE WE LEARN?

By Michelle Lim

THE Malay Mail hit the streets yesterday looking for death traps — gaping manholes — like the one that claimed the life of two-yearold Mohd Izzat Abdul Jalil, recently.

Izzat fell into a manhole at a resort in Malacca on Dec 30 while on a family outing. He reportedly hit his head on [...]

Police stations: A mindset change is needed

By : MOHD GHAZALI OSMAN, Ipoh
ANYONE can see that the country’s crime rate has risen tremendously over the last few months.
It appears that last year was a bad year. Up to today, several high-profile cases have not been solved. The police have tried to explain why some of these cases have not been solved and [...]

Housing for senior citizens: Developers can help sick, elderly elderly

By : CHANDRA PILLAI, Kuala Lumpur
IT’s time big developers who have reaped millions by the sale of high-end properties fulfilled the needs of senior citizens. Building some retirement homes would be a noble gesture. Many elderly folk live in homes that have become unsuitable because of difficulties like climbing stairs.

Cut hanky-panky by lecturers on scholarship

By A Malaysian Taxpayer
In its drive to fulfil the target of 70% PhD holders among lecturers across local government-funded universities, the Higher Education Ministry has been aggressively sending lecturers overseas to pursue their PhDs. These lecturers need to fulfil only two general conditions – obtaining a band of 6.5 in the International English Language Testing [...]

Reward for info on Sharlinie now RM17,000

By : Fadhal A Ghani, The Star
PETALING JAYA: The reward for information leading to the rescue of Sharlinie Mohd Nashar has risen to RM17,000 as the nationwide search for the missing girl entered its fourth day yesterday.