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  • Malaysia’s Ministry Of Health Prompt Response In Debunking Fallacies; The Independent Singapore Retracts Its Inflammatory Post

    Malaysia’s Ministry Of Health Prompt Response In Debunking Fallacies; The Independent Singapore Retracts Its Inflammatory Post

    Local socio-political news site The Independent Singapore on Sunday (Sept 3) took down an article claiming that a Singaporean had died after a Malaysian hospital demanded payment before treating him, and apologised “for the anguish and distress this incident has caused”.

    Thanking all Malaysians who “supported and (stood) tall” with his ministry in a Facebook post on Sunday, director-general of Malaysia’s Ministry of Health Noor Hisham Abdullah said “our prompt response debunking fallacies (has) resulted in an otherwise arrogant Singaporean portal” retracting its post. He also said The Independent had initially defended its article and had blocked Malaysian IPs from accessing it.

    Asked by TODAY about the incident, site publisher Kumaran Pillai said the article was taken down at 8.30am on Sunday to “defuse the situation”.

    He added that “a wave of netizens from Malaysia” had flooded the site’s Facebook page last Saturday at around 10pm calling for the article to be taken down, which led the team to geo-block Malaysians.

    Then, a “series of attacks” brought its site down, which could only be restored Sunday morning. The netizens also left comments, some of which were “inflammatory and racially explosive”.

    Last Saturday, the Malaysian Health Ministry had said it would lodge a formal complaint with Singapore over allegations made in online reports on the death of 25-year-old Singaporean Justinian Tan which had hurt the country’s image as well as the reputation of its healthcare workers.

    Tan and a friend, who were in Johor Baru for supper with four others, were injured in a hit-and-run accident on Aug 25. Mr Joshua De Rozario, one of those in the group, had told media that the ambulance took 30 minutes to arrive.

    When they arrived at Johor’s largest hospital, the Sultanah Aminah Hospital, he said they were asked to pay RM2,700 (S$860) before the medical crew would conduct scans on the two men. The hospital then requested another RM1,350 for Tan’s operation, but the family asked for him to be transferred to Singapore General Hospital (SGH) after learning the brain operation would be conducted by a “medical officer” instead of a surgeon.

    Tan was pronounced brain dead at SGH last Monday, and taken off life support early on Wednesday.

    Malaysia had refuted the allegations, with Dr Hisham issuing a statement last Friday that a team at the hospital’s emergency department initiated the necessary X-rays and scans, as well as treatment such as intubation, “in a very timely and professional manner, without asking for any deposit since this is an emergency case”.

    He also said the ambulance had responded in a “very timely” manner, with a “despatch time of two minutes and response time of 13 minutes”.

     

    Source: http://www.todayonline.com

  • Police Officers In Shanghai Knocked Down Woman And Child Over Parking Ticket [Video Viral]

    Police Officers In Shanghai Knocked Down Woman And Child Over Parking Ticket [Video Viral]

    Footage has emerged from China of a police officer slamming to the ground a woman holding a child.

    In the video, which was filmed in Shanghai on September 1, the woman holds a toddler with one arm as she argues with a police officer.

    When the woman begins to push the officer, he later slams her and her child to the ground hard.

    Two passersby rush to help the distressed child as the police restrain her mother with force.

    Some infuriated by the incident allegedly attacked the officers involved and was recorded in a separate video.

    The police officer has been suspended, according to local news.

    It is believed that the confrontation was over a parking infringement.

     

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  • Tragic Fatal Accident Of 1 Singaporean; Friends Recounts Horror Caused By Malaysia Hit-And-Run Driver

    Tragic Fatal Accident Of 1 Singaporean; Friends Recounts Horror Caused By Malaysia Hit-And-Run Driver

    The Johor traffic police chief said on Thursday (Aug 31) that “action will be taken” against the driver who allegedly knocked down two 25-year-old Singaporeans in Johor Baru.

    Undergraduate Justinian Tan was killed, while his friend Brandon Yeo broke a bone in his thigh, in the Aug 25 accident. The duo and four other friends had driven across the Causeway for supper.

    The victims’ friends had said earlier that the Johor police had told them that the driver was not arrested even though he had turned himself in.

    In a telephone interview with TODAY, Superintendent Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said the driver involved in the accident “will be arrested”.

    Tan, a student at Kaplan Singapore, was pronounced brain dead at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) on Monday, and taken off life support early on Wednesday.

    At about 3am on Aug 25, the six friends, all from the same St Gabriel’s Primary School batch, were about to enter their car parked at Jalan Dato Abdullah Tahir — about a 15-minute drive from the Johor Baru customs complex — when another car swerved towards them, hitting Tan and Mr Yeo.

    Mr Yeo, an insurance agent, broke his femur, but has since been discharged from hospital.

    Mr Joshua De Rozario, a member of the group, said the errant car’s brake lights were not even on, and it “kept going straight” at them.

    “Justinian flew about 15 to 20 metres (and started) choking and moving frantically with blood in his mouth,” said the 25-year-old medical imaging student, who tried to remove the blood and saliva from his friend’s mouth.

    The driver then drove off instead of helping them, the friends said. The rest of them were not injured. The police and ambulance arrived about 30 minutes later. By then, about 100 people had gathered along the street.

    The police then told the four friends to “clean up the blood”, Mr De Rozario said, adding that the area was not cordoned off.

    FROM JB HOSPITAL TO SGH

    When the victims arrived at Johor’s Sultanah Aminah Hospital, Mr De Rozario said they were asked to pay RM2,700 (S$860) first before the medical crew would conduct scans on the two men. The friends were told of the duo’s prognosis about four hours later.

    The hospital then requested another RM1,350, as Tan needed an operation because he had severe bleeding and a blood clot in the left side of his brain.

    His parents, who had arrived at the hospital by then, were told their son had a “50-50 chance of survival”.

    However, when they were told that the brain operation would be conducted by a “medical officer” instead of a surgeon, the family asked for Mr Tan to be transferred to SGH, said Ms Jaslene Tan, 29, one of his three siblings.

    Sultanah Aminah Hospital could not be reached for comment.

    The family also sought help from the Singapore Consulate-General in Johor Baru for the cross-border hospital transfer, and it arranged for a Malaysia-operated private ambulance.

    Ms Tan said the ambulance ride back to Singapore took an hour and 15 minutes. The ambulance personnel told the family that they could not use the ambulance siren as they might be issued with a traffic summon.

    By the time Mr Tan was admitted to SGH, it had been almost 10 hours since the accident. Doctors at the hospital said that too long a time had passed, and “Justinian’s injuries were too severe”, said Mr De Rozario.

    The incident is now treated as a coroner’s case in Johor, said Mr De Rozairo, who filed a police report on Tuesday upon hearing that the car had been identified.

    “The matter is currently in the magistrate’s hands,” he said.

    DIFFERENT PROCEDURES

    Several lawyers told TODAY that accident procedures are handled differently in Malaysia. Mr Peter Ong, director of Templars Law LLC in Singapore, said in a hit-and-run case, the Malaysian police would typically “find the plate number and go to the (driver’s) house” to complete a report.

    “They might not arrest on the spot, but they may charge the person when investigations reveal (more) later … (It’s not unfair in the sense that) they are still investigating the incident. It is not letting him (the driver involved in an accident) off,” said Mr Ong, a Malaysian who used to practise law in his country.

    “But in Singapore, they would arrest first, then (the driver) would be let out on bail.”

    Mr Richard Tan, from Johor-based P L Tan & Tan, said that while the “prudent thing” to do is to make an arrest, detain the vehicle and make sure “no evidence is tampered with”, a lot of these procedures are carried out at the discretion of the police.

    The police might have felt that it was not necessary to make an arrest “if the person cooperated and said what exactly happened, (and) it was consistent with what the witnesses saw”. “The only explanation he has to give is why he sped off,” said Mr Tan.

    One common explanation that drivers often give is that they “are fearful because they might get bashed up for being negligent”, he added.

    Mr Ong said there is a mentality among some Malaysian drivers that if they knock somebody down, it would be better to drive away in case bystanders turn on them and attack them.

    Under Singapore laws, motorists who are involved in an accident in which a person or animal is injured, or where another vehicle or structure is damaged, will have to stop their vehicles. They must also provide the necessary assistance.

    The penalty for hit-and-run accidents is a fine of up to S$3,000 or up to 12 months’ jail.

     

    Source: http://www.todayonline.com

  • Man Kidal Menyerah Diri Kepada Pihak Polis

    Man Kidal Menyerah Diri Kepada Pihak Polis

    Atas nasihat rakan-rakan dan bagi membersihkan nama baiknya dan keluarga, dia menyerah diri di Ibu Pejabat Polis Bukit Aman,” kata pemain gitar popular, Man Kidal, 54, mengenai pembabitan anaknya, Mohd Shefflee, 32, atau Elly dalam perniagaan ‘money game’ dan melarikan jutaan ringgit wang pelabur seperti yang tular di media sosial, baru-baru ini. Man atau nama sebenarnya, Abdul Rahman Mahmood berkata, anaknya itu menyerah diri minggu lalu bagi memberi keterangan dan hanya dibebaskan Ahad lalu.

    Man berkata, berikutan dakwaan yang tular itu, keluarganya menjadi mangsa cemuhan netizen di media sosial. “Kepada mereka yang tidak henti-henti mencemuh, menuduh dan melontarkan tohmahan terhadap anak saya, hentikan segera kerana ia turut membabitkan nama saya dan seluruh keluarga kami. Serahkan kepada polis dan biar mereka melakukan tugas mereka. Pada masa sama kami sedang mengumpul bukti untuk membuktikan Elly tidak bersalah,” katanya. Man berkata, Elly kini menguruskan perniagaannya seperti biasa dan akan terus memberikan kerjasama kepada polis sehinggalah kes itu selesai.

    Man berkata, anaknya itu tidak pernah melakukan kegiatan itu. Menerusi syarikatnya Global Tijari Holdings Berhad, dia mengeluarkan pelbagai produk termasuk untuk kesihatan. “Dia ada kilang dan produk keluarannya memang berdaftar. Ada lebih 1,000 pelabur yang melabur dalam perniagaan itu tetapi hanya 80 orang yang mendakwa Elly menipu mereka. Mungkin perkara itu terjadi kerana ketika menandatangani kontrak, mereka tidak membaca dan memahami syarat serta terma tertentu yang terkandung dalam kontrak itu dengan jelas. Antaranya ialah keuntungan yang akan diagihkan kepada pelabur berdasarkan keuntungan yang diperoleh syarikat. Jika pada tempoh tertentu, syarikat tidak memperoleh keuntungan, maka ia turut memberi kesan kepada pelabur dan bukannya Elly melarikan wang pelabur seperti yang didakwa,” katanya.

     

    Source: Harian Metro

  • (Reader Contribution) Rakyat Malaysia Ditindas Oleh Orang Luar

    (Reader Contribution) Rakyat Malaysia Ditindas Oleh Orang Luar

    This reader, a Malaysian, mentioned that foreigners like those from Singapore and Australia are taking advantage of the good exchange rate for Malaysian currency by purchasing properties and assets in Malaysia, not just one or two, but more than that. Do you agree with him?

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    Maaf, saya nak berkongsi rasa. Saya join group keluarga Singapura. Group ni terdiri dari saudara mara saya di Singapura dan Australia. Baru sempat baca whatsapp mereka petang tadi. Hari ni mereka upload gambar penduduk singapura dan australia reramai keluar beratur panjang beli duit ringgit kita sebab duit kita jatuh teruk. Berita tentang negara kita memang panaslah kat negara luar.

    Penduduk luar sangat gembira dengan kejatuhan ringgit ni termasuklah saudara mara saya. Saudara mara saya banyak beli aset di Malaysia. Saudara mara saya bukan beli aset satu dua aje di Malaysia tapi lebih. Hampir setiap dari mereka ada aset di sini. Rumah, tanah, rumah kedai yang tak mampu kita termasuk saya miliki, mereka mampu beli.

    Saya rasa sedih sangat. Bukan sebab cemburu or dengki tapi kesian pada nasib kita rakyat Malaysia ni. Saya guru sejarah, paatriotik saya terusik. Saya bimbang satu hari nanti kita hanya bangga sebagai rakyat Malaysia tapi kita dhaif tak punya apa-apa di negara kita sendiri. Keadaan itu sudah hampir jadi realiti. Bila kita kejar keuntungan, kita jugak yang rugi akhirnya. Adik saya jurutera di putrajaya holdings, buat rumah semi d, harga rm6 juta.

    Saya tanya habis tak terjual. Adik saya kata habis, dibeli oleh orang luar singapura, taiwan, australia. Sedih kalau kita terpaksa merempat di bumi kita sendiri. Nak salahkan mereka? Tepuk dad, sesamalah kita renungkan. Saya tak salahkan mereka bila kita sendiri yang membuka ruang, peluang dan kesempatan untuk mereka.

     

    Source: Bukhari