Business operators have been threatened by extortionists that they would face action under the Emergency Ordinance if they did not give in to their demands, MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Michael Chong said. He said that the department had received five reports of extortionists visiting business premises in Pandan Perdana and [...]
Victims of threats should remain calm and seek advice from their loved ones before taking the next course of action, said Penang MCA Public Services and Complaints Bureau chief Tan Yok Cheng. Yok Cheng said they needed to be clear-headed and must not act rashly based on fear. He was referring to a [...]
A RM10,000 reward is being offered to anyone who knows the whereabouts of missing wireman Morogen Subramanyam. His family in Batu Pahat, last heard from the 31-year-old eight months ago, when he purportedly told them he was going to Kempas to work. They lodged a missing person report on April 14. Two [...]
All he wanted to do was deliver a bouquet of flowers to his friend. He ended up getting 10 stitches on his scrotum after a dog bit him. Goh Boon Lea, a contractor and part time florist, had gone to his friend’s house in Taman Bekerly at 10.20pm on Sunday to deliver the flowers [...]
When her husband was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer over a month ago, housewife Mok Yoke Kh-eng’s world came tumbling down. Lee Kun Kuow, 49, was the sole breadwinner. Now, he has been warded at the Taiping hospital. To make matters worse, the family had to evacuate their flooded home in Kampung Peng [...]
Licensed moneylenders who employ the dirty tactics of loan sharks to collect money from debtors risk losing their licence. A list of such culprits has been obtained by the Licensed Moneylenders Association, and its president R.C. Veeraseelan is determined to purge them from the association. Veeraseelan said the MCA Public Services and [...]
A Taiwanese has lodged a report with the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) alleging that he was almost cheated of his RM10mil land in the heart of the city. The 56-year-old businessman, Chen Wei Pin, said he had bought the plot of land in Changkat Raja Chulan here in 1990 and leased it to a car [...]
A woman in her 60s was duped of her life savings of RM109,000 in a scratch-and-win scam. The woman from Kluang was promised a car and paid the money in four instalments. Instead, she got about 13 electrical items. Mengkibol assemblyman Gan Ping Sieu said the woman received a vacuum cleaner, two air-conditioning [...]
Honey, oyster sauce and dried mushrooms are among food products from China which have been placed on the food alert list for contravening regulations in Malaysia. Data from the Health Ministry Food Quality and Safety Division indicated, in samples taken on specific dates, that pesticide residue was detected in the dried mushrooms on four [...]
Despite illegal scratch-and-win syndicates being exposed regularly in the newspapers, some people are still falling victim to them. A couple who went to a bank in Desa Tebrau on Nov 15 was duped of RM6,500 by one such syndicate. Supervisor Mohamad Anuar Buyong, 38, said he was waiting in the car while his [...]
