A man was found dead in the lock-up in Bukit Sentosa, Hulu Selangor yesterday, just a fortnight after another case of death in custody in Klang.  A sentry found M Thanaseelan, 43, unconcious in his cell at about 1.50am, The Star reported.  Hulu Selangor police chief R Supramanisam said an ambulance was called and Thanaseelan was pronounced dead...

Authorities Should Investigate the Killing, Prosecute Perpetrators By Boris Dittrich - www.hrw.org At about 3:30 a.m. on Thursday, a 27-year-old transgender woman, Sameera Krishnan, was brutally murdered in Kuantan city, Malaysia. Krishnan who worked in a florist shop, was attacked with a knife and received slash wounds to her hands, arm, head, and legs, and was shot up...

*Keingkaran dan Keengganan Pihak Polis Memberi Bantuan Perubatan Mengakibatkan Seorang Lagi Tahanan Meninggal Dunia Dalam Tahanan Polis* Seorang individu bernama S. Bala Murugan, 44 tahun dari Taman Eng Ann, telah meninggal dunia semasa berada di bawah tahanan pihak polis. Menurut sumber, mendiang S. Bala Murugan telah ditahan oleh pihak polis dari IPD Klang Utara pada hari Isnin, 6...

One of the major challenges faced by the academically low performing Indian Malaysian students from the challenged communities - the Bottom 40 percent or B40 - in secondary schools is their inability to integrate or ‘mix’ with other communities. This inability has greatly affected the upward mobility of these youths and the key barrier to this is the...

Anger was the first thing artist Ruby Subramaniam felt when she read a vigilante group's threat to use aerosol spray paint on "inappropriately dressed" women at Thaipusam events. Instead of stewing in her anger, the self-taught artist decided to do something about it. She reached out to friends whom she knew, had also been vocal against the vigilante...

The family of the man who died in police custody yesterday has lodged a police report urging for a second post-mortem and an independent investigation on his death. "The report lodged by the brother today basically says that they're not satisfied (with the post-mortem)... they saw the (beating) marks. "Therefore they want an independent police investigation to be...

An unknown organisation, the United Hindu Religious Council (UHRC), gave a press conference on Feb 4, 2017 in Penang, saying that the Golden Chariot organised by the Penang Hindu Endowments Board (PHEB) violates Hindu agamic principles. The UHRC spokespersons, MV Mathialagan and M Sethubathi, said that since the PHEB did not keep to its deadline of justifying the...

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Malays are selling vadai, atirasam, kacang and toys....at our Thaipusam ....this is at Penang To overcome this issue humble request frm all Indians pls do not buy frm Malays and support them. I have sèen in Kepala Batas fiesta one Indian man selling ice cream and no Malays is buying frm him a single ice cream ...

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I must confess to loving coining puns on the word ‘Malaysia’, as I know how much it upsets those legions of hypocrites who don’t seem to mind Umno/BN’s having spent six decades so comprehensively ‘corrupting’ the country as to make its name mud, muck or merde in the global community, but are driven to frenzies of fury by...

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