Hanging by a thread

Rape victim’s body found hanged from durian tree

KUALA KUBU BARU: The body of a woman, believed to be a rape victim, was
found hanged from a durian tree in Sungei Choh near here. She was clad only in
her underwear.

The body was found by passers-by at 7.50am. The woman had a rope tied round
her neck and the other end tied to a branch of the tree behind a petrol station.
Her legs were tied and her feet were touching the ground.

She was clad only in a white bra and a maroon panties. Hulu Selangor deputy
OCPD Supt Bakhtiar Rashid said police believe the victim could have been
murdered elsewhere before the body was hanged from the branch.

He said police believe there was a struggle between the victim and her
assailant as there were strangulation marks on her neck and bruises on her
body,

Supt Bakhtiar also said police believe the victim was raped before she was
killed hours before the body was found.

“No identification document was found on her. We are unsure about the
victim’s race but initial checks indicate that she might be a foreigner,” he
added.

Yes, Suara Keadilan and Harakah just got banned. UMNO GE is tomorrow and everybody seemed excited. Yet, this is the story that gripped my heart that a girl was killed after being raped. But her story will remain in the background because of these political situations and perhaps because she is a foreigner. If she is a class 1 foreigner ( Arabs, Gwailos etc.), the embassy and media will descent and the police will make various different pledges. Seemed that this victim may fall between the cracks for being from a less than prestigious country.

My home church is working to support the vietnamese, bangladeshi migrants who came down to the small town to work on the furniture factories. Quite a few of them got summarily terminated and right now, the migrants feel that they have been wronged but without avenue for their grievences to be heard.

It is time that Malaysia subscribe to be a signatory to a migrant charter. We are either alllowing them to get the citizenship to easily ( read Sabah) or subject them to rather unfair practices.

Crabby investigation on china dolls

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KLANG: Selangor police have refuted claims that a vice ring offering the
services of foreign prostitutes was operating in Pulau Ketam near here.

State deputy police chief Senior Asst Comm I Datuk Jamshah Mustapa said
this in response to a report in a Chinese vernacular paper last week that
Chinese women were prostituting themselves in eight houses that had been turned
into brothels in Pulau Ketam.

The report said the pimps running the operations charged between RM60 and RM80 for each visit with the women.

Clients could also keep the women for a month for between RM3,000 and
RM5,000.

The problem was highlighted to the media as well as to the MCA
by housewives in Pulau Ketam who feared that their sons and husbands would be
affected by these women, said the report.

SAC Jamshah said checks by the police indicated that tourists, mostly from China, with valid travel documents were visiting the island during the weekends.

He said some of the female tourists might have forged
friendships with locals and this could have been frowned upon by certain quarters.

SAC Jamshah said the female tourists came there for holidays
and were not brought there by a vice ring.

In anti-vice operations in Pulau Ketam this year, he said police detained one local man and four Chinese women.

What do you think?

Here we have a SAC who seemed to rush aside the local's observation and came out with stories to reason out the situation. And at one brush, denied the involvement of syndicates.

She should think...

1. Why are there so many chinese tourist visiting Pulau Ketam, which are scarcely paraded as the top tourist destination in Malaysia?

2. And if it is so, why there seemed to be more women than men tourists?

3. And how long does it take to 'befriend' the locals? 2 hour trip or 2 weeks?

4. If the vice operations only capture 5 people , is it because there is really nothing going on or because people got tip off?

I think a 10 year old also can be more inquisitive than this SAC. What a crab.

EPF Sucks!

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I am pissed.

I worked hard.

Big percentage goes as tax .... where the government 'occasionally' uses as personal coin, I mean cash jar.

Another big percentage goes to the employee provident fund, where it is supposed to be wisely invested for my future.

The same government comes in to find another money jar since the tax jar seemed to be more limited nowadays.

RM5 billion is given to Valuecap ( or Valuecrap) , a company that seemed unable to service its loan and whose shareholding is a mystery. -> to selected high healed people.

RM10 billion is given to Khazanah, with the money going to Government linked companies -> to selected high healed people.

Back to EPF. It obtained a record RM20 billion of gross income.

Gross income: 2007 = RM18.29 billion ;
2008 = RM20 billion (9.36% increase)

Net income: 2007 = RM16.87 billion ; 2008 should be = RM18.45 billion (9.36%)?

But now 2008’s net income = RM14.26 billion, short of RM4.2 billion?

Read at http://stocktube.blogspot.com/2009/03/epfs-45-dividend-your-cheese-eaten-by.html

So,
I am earning 4.5% and not 6% ( 2007 is 5.0%) because RM4.2 billion is missing. Coincidentally, RM5 billion is given in cash to Valuecap. It means that the EPF shareholders are getting less dividens because the money was given to somebody else. -> to selected high healed people.

1. EPF chairman should resign.
2. Nor Yaakob should resign for forcing the valuecap issue.

I hope EPF fund managers are getting less bonuses too.... fat hope.
EPF sucks!!!

HRH Sultan Selangor on preservation of orang asli land

“In the last few years, the orang asli community has undergone an erosion
of identity and it is time their rights be returned to them with the resolution
of their land problems.

“I want to stress the need to acknowledge and preserve orang asli land
which had been seized from them in the last few years,” said the Sultan.

Sultan Sharafuddin also urged the state government to expedite the
identification and gazetting of orang asli land.

“They should be given the land which is rightfully
theirs,” he added.

What a breath of fresh air. ( Read here) I hope the other sultans and Raja ( the white hair rajah of Sarawak) would take a leaf from HRH. Can we, the lesser beings and certainly the even lesser beings of Orang Asal's ( sorry, but the fact that they are not given their rightful land, continously loosing lands via court and logging companies etc. ) ... would dare to hope that there will be a real progress towards granting real rights to those that deserves it.