Category Archives: Malaysian Mirror
Cabinet okays guarded community proposal
KUALA LUMPUR – The Cabinet has approved a proposal to streamline guidelines for gated communities and guarded neighbourhoods which have been mushrooming lately, Housing and Local Government Minister Chor Chee Heung said here. However, he added, the guidelines would only be implemented after they had been considered by the National Council for Local Government. He said [...]
Employers must contribute to EPF, Socso for part-time workers
BAHAU – Employers must make EPF and Socso contributions for their part-time employees as long as they work between 30% and 70% of the number of hours put in by regular staff. This means that if a regular employee puts in eight hours a day, those who put in between 2.5 hours and 5.5 hours [...]
Time is running out for death row Vui Kong
SANDAKAN – Time is running out to gather 100,000 signatures in a petition to save Vui Kong from being hanged while the 22-year-old mother falls into depression. The online petition “Give Yong Vui Kong a Second Chance to Help Singapore’s Anti-Drug Trafficking Policy” campaign has so far managed to gather only 21,359 signatures as of [...]
What! Utar turns down RM30m
KUALA LUMPUR – Plans by renowned philanthropist Koon Yew Yin, who has offered scholarships to Utar students to further alleviate their problems have hit a caveat. Koon made a RM30mil donation offer in August this year to build hostels at the Utar Kampar campus to help students “because all the poor students who have taken [...]
Fading goal
KUALA LUMPUR – Time and the elements have taken their toll on the mural, reputed to be one of the world’s longest at 270m. Part of the tropical landscape artwork created by inmates 26 years ago are peeling off, exposing concrete and in some places bare bricks. From the air, the main complex of Pudu [...]
Corruption lingers in Malaysia
Malaysia continues to sink, in the eyes of the world, as a corrupt nation. In the latest ranking of the Corruption Perception Index carried out by Transparency International (TI), Malaysia is placed 56th among 180 nations surveyed – down 11 levels from its 46th position in the last CPI. Malaysia’s index score of 4.5 [...]
Animals going bananas in Zoo Negara
KUALA LUMPUR – For the average visitor, Zoo Negara seems a pretty much natural setting for the animals. But, to the discerning eye, there’s something amiss. The enclosures are outdated and many of them were built in the 1980′s. According to a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the environment at the zoo cannot compare to [...]
PAS not a fan of Michael Learns To Rock
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s conservative Islamic party on Monday called for Danish band Michael Learns to Rock to be banned from performing next month, saying it was an insult to Muslims during Ramadan. The Pan-Malaysian Islamic party (PAS) has campaigned against several foreign performers, and in 2007 threatened protests which forced US singer Beyonce to [...]
Media should give space to creative exploration
Newspapers in Malaysia are so backward. They are very good in reporting about gutter news, but they have no time for any intelligent reporting about what is coming next, about what and who are making a difference in the country. They should do more coverage about creative industries, about people who do things differently. In [...]
498 – the number that insults women
KUALA LUMPUR – Section 498 of the Penal Code has suddenly become a much-talked about number. Before the issue concerning glamorous TV celebrity Daphne Iking made media headlines, how many people – more pertinent, how many women – knew such a law exists? Simply put, it is about men enticing, taking away or detaining with [...]