PETALING JAYA: A religious school teacher here allegedly stabbed and killed his girlfriend during a heated argument where she demanded that they get married.
The man was arrested at his home in Jalan Songket 4, Taman Bukit Bujang, several hours after the bloodied body of Nur Salina Nazir was discovered in her grey Proton Wira at about 9am on Wednesday.
The car was located outside Sekolah Rendah Agama Kuala Kubu Baru, where the suspect taught.
The victim, Nur Salina
Nur Salina, who has four children, was found in the drivers’ seat with seven stab wounds to her body.
She was discovered by passers-by who then alerted the authorities.
It is learnt that the incident took place when the argument escalated and the suspect whipped out a knife and stabbed her repeatedly.
Hulu Selangor OCPD Supt R. Supramaniam confirmed the incident and said the case was classified under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder.
“She was stabbed four times on her chest, twice on the ribs and once on the left arm.
“Her belongings are also missing. We are trying to find the weapon that was used,” he said.
Supramaniam said the suspect confessed to the stabbing.
Nur Salina left behind four children – three daughters and a son – aged between seven and 14.
Terperanjat pelakon Sani Hussin semasa menjalani sesi penggambaran bagi rancangan lawak terbaru, Super Spontan Upsize, baru-baru ini.
Sani, yang diundang bukan sebagai pelawak tetapi sebagai ‘pengurus’ pasukan, agak terperanjat dengan budaya kerja di sana memandangkan kesemua penggambaran diadakan di Malaysia.
“Kalau kat Singapura, kita pentingkan disiplin dan semuanya mesti teratur.
“Tetapi di sana, suasananya agak santai. Malah ada pelawak yang dengan bersahaja boleh bermain bola di dalam studio,” kongsinya.
Rancangan yang bakal ditayangkan di Suria pada 4 Ogos nanti menampilkan pelawak Malaysia dan Singapura.
Antara yang diundang termasuk Najip Soiman, Sahfudin Mahfuz, Fakkah Fuzz, Mamat Bora serta satu-satunya bunga di antara kumbang, Farhana M. Noor.
Dari Malaysia pula, pelawak yang disertakan termasuk Johan, Rahim, Zulin Aziz, Pak Yus dan Ajak Shiro.
Sani juga menyifatkan status para selebriti di sana berbeza daripada selebriti di sini.
Ini memandangkan kehadiran mereka bagi apa jua rancangan menjadi daya penarik yang dapat meningkatkan lagi rating sesebuah rancangan.
Ini belum termasuk unsur kewangan yang dapat diraih sesebuah syarikat yang menampilkan para selebriti ini dalam acara mereka.
Bagaimanapun, Sani akui ada yang boleh dipelajari daripada ketangkasan dan kepetahan berbual para pelawak Malaysia.
Menurutnya, mereka memang cukup handal selain boleh berfikir dengan pantas dan berkesan.
“Rancangan Super Spontan ini sebenarnya mengasah dan mencabar minda serta kebolehan pelawak.
“Ia sesuai untuk pelawak yang memulakan kerjaya mereka dalam dunia teater.
“Ini kerana dari situlah kita mula mempelajari tentang kemahiran melawak serta kemahiran mengubah suai sesuatu situasi.
“Jadi para pelawak Malaysia ni memang cepat dan mudah mendapat idea selain menjadikan sesuatu bahan yang simple itu sebagai sesuatu yang melucukan,” katanya sambil menambah bahawa para pelawak di sana tetap terus berjenaka meskipun di luar set penggambaran.
Super Spontan Upsize yang diterbitkan Grid Media Pte Ltd, syarikat milik Khairudin Samsudin, dihoskan Najip Ali dengan pengadil tetap, Afdlin Shauki dan Suhaimi Yusof.
Antara pengadil undangan termasuk Norish Karman, Shah Iskandar, Hisyam Hamid, Khairudin Samsudin dan Amy Mastura.
Para pelawak juga dibahagikan kepada dua kumpulan yang namanya juga sudah cukup mencuit hati – Gajah Gerek dan Selamba Kodok.
Look at this comment by a PRC woman, who scolded Singaporeans for saying that the 2 PRC bitches are wrong.
Translation “If you are so capable then kick all PRCs out of Singapore ah! You are not even able to do it! As long as PRCs have money, we can go anywhere! Even if you are jealous and hate us, you have no choice! We PRCs are rich! Not like you people, going to a store you can’t even buy a TV without paying in installments! Disgrace! PRCs have money so we are your boss! Your government must serve us! Even if you complain, it is worthless!”
I think our current government has really betrayed all of us big time now. Bringing in snakes like those 2 mad PRC women and this arrogant PRC bitch. We need a real political party that has the guts to really kick all these foreigners out of Singapore!
After having been held in Changi Prison for one full week, teenage blogger Amos Yee’s bid to vary the conditions of his bail was thrown out today (May 6), after he held out on his terms.
Prosecutors offered to lower his bail amount by one-third to S$10,000 and not require him to report daily to Bedok Police Divisional Headquarters, provided the 16-year-old continues to go for psychiatric counselling. The ban on making postings on social media before his trial concludes, however, must still stand, while those that he had posted in breach of bail conditions have to be taken down.
Amos, however, refused to budge on all three fronts.
There have been many dramatic developments, including a stranger stepping forward as his bailor and another stranger assaulting him outside court, before Amos’ two-day trial for uploading an obscene image and content intending to wound the religious feelings of Christians begins tomorrow (May 7).
The latest emerged today when the court was told that Amos’ mother, Madam Mary Toh Ai Buay, had taken him to the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) on April 3, three days after he was charged with criminal offences for content posted online. After attending two sessions, he refused to continue.
Asked today if he would resume the sessions in return for relaxed bail conditions, Amos indicated his refusal from the dock.
Decked in purple prison garb, Amos, who appeared in good spirits, frowned and shook his head when Deputy Public Prosecutor Hay Hung Chun called him a troubled person needing psychiatric help.
When Mr Hay mentioned Amos’ blogged about his bail conditions in “not-too-polite terms”, Amos grinned.
His lawyers Alfred Dodwell and Ervin Tan argued the ban on him posting online content is too broad and disproportionate, while the teenager felt taking down the posts in question was tantamount to an admission of guilt. Mr Dodwell said Amos has been on social media since the age of 8 and engaging online is “equivalent to drinking water” for the blogger, who has decided to stop schooling despite good results in the O Levels.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Hay Hung Chun retorted that the conditions were “not about drinking water”, as Amos would still be able to communicate privately with others and even shop online. “He wants to drink Coke,” Mr Hay said.
High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang questioned why it was so difficult to temporarily refrain from public online posts, and said the teenager would just have to learn to curb himself. With Amos’ refusal to go for psychiatric counselling, Justice Tay said he saw no reason to vary the bail conditions.
The prosecution said it only learnt yesterday (May 5) about Amos’ visits to the IMH after an officer from the Ang Mo Kio Police Divisional Headquarters contacted Mdm Toh that afternoon to follow up on a police report she had made on March 29.
Contrary to reports that she had lodged the report against her son, Mdm Toh had instead done so “as a formal apology to the nation”, after her son’s YouTube video with remarks made about former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew went viral.
She had stated in the police report that she would like to seek help from “the proper agency” for her son as she was unable to get through to him and was afraid the situation might “escalate further”. But she told the police yesterday that she no longer wanted to provide a statement.
The hearing today was attended by civil society activists including Mr Vincent Law, the family and youth counsellor who posted Amos’ bail initially, as well as blogger Roy Ngerng.
Outside court, Mdm Toh told reporters that as she was making the report in Ang Mo Kio that day, police from Bedok were on their way to arrest her son. She received a call from her husband shortly after stepping out of the police station, she said.
Mdm Toh said she had taken Amos to IMH to understand why he seemed “too daring” and feared nothing, and not to find out if he was insane. Amos did well enough in his O Levels to qualify for a junior college, but did not like the Singapore school system, she added.
Meanwhile, police told TODAY that investigations on the 49-year-old man arrested in connection with Amos’ slapping incident on April 30 are ongoing.
Singaporeans are growing more aware of the need to be kind and gracious, although they believe that more can be done to improve Singapore as a gracious society, according to an annual survey conducted by the Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM).
SKM’s annual Graciousness Index measures the percentage of Singaporeans who perceive and experienced acts of graciousness, and this percentage has moved up from 53% in 2013 to 55% in 2014, and currently to 61% in 2015, a significant increase given the survey’s sample size of 1,850 residents, the majority of which were Singaporeans.
Dr William Wan, general secretary of the Singapore Kindness Movement
The results were announced at a media briefing today, 5 May, where SKM attributed this year’s increase to a growing sense of positive perceptions about kindness and graciousness in Singapore, with respondents rating both themselves and others higher when it comes to being considerate, courteous and showing appreciation.
SKM’s general secretary Dr William Wan said that this increase is a promising sign. “The increase in positive perceptions and overall sense of improvement is encouraging. If we as a nation continue this positive trend, then kindness and graciousness can become part of our norms and national identity.”
However, when asked who should make Singapore a gracious place to live in, 72% of respondents felt the government should be responsible, while only 60% saw themselves as sharing that responsibility.
Dr Wan acknowledged that “maybe we are over reliant on the government” although there is really no issue if the government wants to help with creating a more gracious society. SKM also works regularly with the Ministry of Education to spread the kindness message to the young.
Among the other influencers, the role of parents (50%) was seen to be marginally higher than that of schools (48%), indicating an understanding that education and inculcation of values is done both at home and in school.
Nevertheless, he said that there is room for improving this 60%, where Singaporeans can take greater ownership in the society they want to create.
The Graciousness Index is an annual study commissioned by the Singapore Kindness Movement to track experience and perceptions of kindness and graciousness in Singapore. It studies attitudes towards various pertinent community issues.
In addition to eight key Graciousness Index Components, this year’s survey, conducted from December 2014 to February 2015 also included questions on neighbourliness, the role of parents, online behaviour, assimilation of foreigners, and sense of entitlement.
Questions on Amos Yee, STOMP, shaming and hari kiri
When asked about his position on the online and offline assault on Amos Yee, Dr Wan referred to an earlier statement issued by SKM on the issue. “There needs to be some general rules for conversations,” he said, “and this should not be different whether they are online or offline.”
16 year-old Yee was verbally abused online and publicly slapped outside the courts when he was attending hearings for charges laid against him for allegedly posting an inflammatory video against Christianity and the late former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
“We are all watching this trial, and it is wrong to take the law into our own hands,” he said, referring to Yee’s assailant. “If not, we will just go back to being cowboy towns.”
“The law will take its own course. I don’t agree with the slapper – I can understand his emotions, but (such actions) should not be tolerated, or we will do something even more wrong.”
Another editor present also asked Dr Wan about STOMP, and whether news media should be held more responsible for encouraging a more gracious society.
“There is a difference between shaming and guilt,” he responded. “It is fine to have guilt, as it reflects on an act, compels us to do the right thing. Shame, however, goes to the person, and has been a part of Japanese society where (there is) hari kiri. Shaming is not the right thing to do, and STOMP is about shaming.”
Nevertheless, Mr Ceasar Balota, associate general secretary of SKM, said that SKM had tried to do a “take-over” of STOMP in 2012 where the website carried SKM’s messages on its landing page, which he felt resulted in a more positive outlook for the website.
As such, he believed that STOMP is not averse to doing the right thing, and he also noted that the website has been noticeably more muted in the past six months.
On the issue of public shaming, TOC asked Dr Wan, given that 72% of respondents deferred to the government to build a gracious society, if more recent remarks made by Ministers in Parliament against opposition members referred to the practice of hari kiri might actually encourage Singaporeans to have a wrong mindset.
“The government can say what it wants, but it does not mean that we have to agree,” responded Dr Wan, although he noted that there could be instances where the government needs to take a hard stance if its feels that it cannot allow certain things. “There is always room for different opinions, and we need to learn that Singapore can survive despite these differences.”
Nevertheless, he advocated for a need to engage the government, and for the government to do likewise, in order to build a better society.
ent to track experience and perceptions of kindness and graciousness in Singapore. It studies attitudes towards various pertinent community issues.
