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Guard shot dead in jewellery shop heist

PETALING JAYA: A security guard who had worked at a jewellery shop here for more than 20 years died after he was shot by armed robbers Wednesday.

The incident occured around 3.45pm when three men wearing full-face helmets barged into the shop along Jalan Othman.

One of the men brandished a pistol and shot the unarmed security guard twice at point-blank range.

The other two men then used axes to shatter the glass showcases and took the jewellery before leaving the scene on motorcycle.

A police team at the scene of the crime in the jewellery shop in Petaling Jaya.

Petaling Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Arjunaidi Mohamed said the security guard was rushed to the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre but died while receiving treatment around 6pm.

"We have identified the victim as P. Krishnan, 43. He suffered two gunshot wounds to the chest and arm," he said when contacted.

He said the motorcycles were later found abandoned at Jalan Carey, about 1.4km from the crime scene.

"We have acquired CCTV footage from the crime scene to facilitate investigations under Section 4 of the Firearms Act and Section 302 of the Penal Code," he said.

He urged anyone with information to contact the police hotline at 03-2052 9999 or the nearest police station.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/9/26/nation/20120926215720&sec=nation

Summary of the article

A 43 year-old security guard was shot dead while doing his shift at a jewellery shop for over 20 years. The incident happened at 3.15pm, Wednesday when three men wearing full-face helmets barged into the shop. One of the men shot the unarmed guard while the other two used axes to shatter the glass showcases and took the jewellery before leaving the scene on motorcycle. The security guard was rushed to the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre, unfortunately died while receiving treatment around 6pm. The motorcycles were later found abandoned at Jalan Carey, about 1.4km from the crime scene. CCTV footage from the crime scene were used to simplify investigations under Section 4 of the Firearms Act and Section 302 of the Penal Code. Anyone with information are urged to contact through police hotline or police station.

Opinion

From my perspective, all owners of their shops should first and fore most, provide their security guards a weapon for self defence. Besides that, an elder security guard should also be accompanied by a younger accomplice to help him out. The robbers didn't have to shoot and hurt anyone. I think it is very inhumane of them to do so, killing an innocent life, that they don't even know and has done nothing to them. I really hope that anyone with information regarding the robbery, will cooperate, go to the police and bring those cold-blooded, vicious creatures to light. I hope justice will be brought up and those men will be punished fairly.

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Couple held over abuse of maid

JOHOR BARU: A husband and wife have been detained by the police to assist in investigations of alleged abuse of an Indonesian maid.

It is learnt that the couple, in their 20s, was arrested in Batu Pahat after they fled from their home in Taman D'Utama here to avoid being detained by the police.

It is believed that the couple had used hot water, a hot ladle and a hockey stick to abuse their maid.

Johor Baru (North) OCPD Asst Comm Ruslan Hassan said police arrested the couple at their relative's house at Rengit in Batu Pahat on Monday night around 9pm.

"After they avoided arrest twice, we learned that they were hiding in Batu Pahat. However, we managed to locate them.

"They turned themselves in after police arrived at the house," he said Wednesday.

He added that the couple was being remanded for seven days to assist in the investigations.

The case was being investigated under Section 326 of the Penal Code for causing harm using weapons, which provides for a jail sentence of up to 20 years and a fine or whipping upon conviction.

ACP Ruslan added that the maid was still receiving treatment for her injuries at the Hospital Sultanah Aminah.

It was recently reported that the 24-year-old maid had run away from her employers after being allegedly abused by them for the past nine months.

She claimed that her employers would get angry with her over minor things and beat her up.

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Summary of the article

A married couple in their early 20s was arrested by the police to assist in investigations of alleged abuse of an Indonesian maid. The police managed to find them in Batu Pahat at their relative's house at Rengit in Batu Pahat on Monday night around 9pm after they fled from their home in Taman D'Utama to avoid being detained by the police. In the past, they have avoided arrest twice. It is discovered that the couple used hot water, a hot ladle and a hockey stick to abuse their maid over minor things. The 24 year-old maid ran away after taking in nine months' of abuse and currently is receiving treatment for her injuries at the Hospital Sultanah Aminah. The couple is being remanded for seven days to assist in the investigations under Section 326 of the Penal Code for causing harm using weapons, which provides for a jail sentence of up to 20 years and a fine or whipping upon conviction.

Opinion

I do not think that 20 years of jail is enough to justify what the couple did. Non- parole should be included in the charges. What the couple did to the maid can never be redress. We need to critically address the conditions that enabled the couple to systematically and continuously harm her domestic worker in order to stop this kind of act from continuing. It is not only the couple who are responsible. The government is equally responsible. The conditions of work are not regulated. The employer is given the right to hold the passport of the domestic worker. There is neither a law nor a standardized contract to protect all domestic workers. The government provided the condition of isolation by not giving a paid day off. And consequently, it opened the doors for abuse and exploitation. In fact, the maid was in a trafficked situation where she was in servitude, in a form of slavery condition. Besides that, Indonesian domestic workers who form more than 80 percent of all domestic workers earn shamefully low wages, between RM400-600 but work very long hours a day. They do not get their wages for six months or more as deductions are made to repay the exorbitant recruitment fees charged by recruitment agencies. The work conditions and tasks are undefined and thus many of them not only take of babies and household chores but also cook and even take care of the elderly. These practices tantamount to a form of modern-day slavery. To stop this, the governments need to strengthen the laws. How? By making the agencies have contracts to allow the domestic workers work for only a limited amount of hours per day, be given at least a day off a week, allow them to have a gathering at a place organized for them on their day off to mingle around with other domestic workers so that they will not be isolated. In addition, employers that abuse their domestic workers should be sentence to jail with no parole, high amount of fine and whipping.

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'Job interviewer' serial rapist nabbed

KUALA LUMPUR: The serial rapist who lured his victims by offering them lucrative salaries and setting up "job interviews" has been nabbed.

Police arrested the 29-year-old salesman about 3am in a house in Section 27, Shah Alam, near here, Wednesday.

City CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Ku Chin Wah said initial investigations revealed that the man was involved in at least five rape cases in Klang Valley.

He said three cases were reported here and two in Selangor.

"We believe more women have fallen prey to his 'staged' job interviews but did not lodge reports," he told a press conference here.

His activities came to light after police received reports from two victims who claimed they were raped and robbed during a "job interview."

It was reported that the man would ask his intended victim to a budget hotel in the city to attend the "interview" after she applied for a sales promoter job through a website.

In a replied e-mail, the victim would be offered RM400 per day for the job by the suspect.

The victim was then asked to meet the "interviewer" in a room at the hotel.

SAC Ku said the man would ask the victim to register the hotel room under her name to avoid his name being used.

"He would tell the victims that he had left his identity card at home and could not register," he said, adding that the man was home alone when police raided his house.

Initial investigations also revealed that the man had raped a 19-year-old in 2010 using the same modus operandi.

He also would convince the victims to bring along their valuables such as laptops, mobile phone and cash during the staged interview.

The suspect has been remanded to facilitate in investigations under Section 376 for rape and 392 for robbery.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/9/26/nation/20120926163951&sec=nation

Summary of the article

The serial rapist that was loose for a few years has finally been caught by the police. He was caught in a house in Section 27, Shah Alam at 3am. The rapist was a  29-year-old salesman that lured his victims by offering them rewarding salaries and setting up "job interviews". Investigations revealed that the man was involved in at least five rape cases in Klang Valley. Police believed that more women have fallen prey to his 'staged' job interviews but did not lodge reports. He was revealed when police received reports from two victims who claimed they were raped and robbed during a "job interview." According to reports, the man would get his victim to a budget hotel in the city to attend the "interview" after she applied for a sales promoter job through a website. The victim was to register the hotel room under her name to avoid his name being used as he would tell the victims that he had left his identity card at home and could not register. He would also convince the victims to bring along their valuables such as laptops, mobile phone and cash. Currently, the suspect is returned to custody for investigation under Section 376 for rape and 392 for robbery.

Opinion

From my perspective, people especially women really need to be careful when they apply jobs online. They should really find out every details about the jobs offered online to avoid being conned and in more serious cases, raped or sold off to other countries to be prostitutes. The people can find out more about the details of the job by asking what the company of the job is and search on it in the Internet. To be more accurate, go to the website of the company and searc for the interviewer's name or call up the company to confirm about the existence of the job offered. 

COM1106 Introduction to Journalism

Currently, I am in semester 2 of college and COM1106, Introduction to Journalism is one of the subjects that I have on my list. The lecturer for this subject would be Mr K, I am not very sure of his full name. I think it is Khairul ... Nevermind. What is this subject about? As you can see from the name of the subject, it is about Introduction to Journalism. Which is obvious from the name given for the subject. Now I am just typing nonsense. May dear Lord help me.

Anyway, what do I expect out of this subject? My expectations are many. I expect this subject to be fun and educational(like any subject isn't. *Rolls eyes* I really ace at talking crap). Hmmm. I expect to be able write better, like a professional when I am done with this subject. I also expect to learn many things from the assignments that I will be given. Assignments that will lead me out of my shell, comfortable little homey shell and make a me an awesome, quick-thinking, creative journalist, editor, reporter, writer, anything to do with words, you name it. What else? Lets see. Hah! I also expect to know more about the terms and functions of the jobs in this journalism industry. Like, editor and what kinds of editors there are and what they do, stuff like that. I want to be a good, no, great writer with my own style with words that people will recognise instantly. I want my words to feel  smart but not boring, with a tablespo- more than that, of my fun in them.  I expect to brush up my vocabulary and I heard that people with good vocabulary are attractive. It can boost my social life at the same time. Hahaha. I think. Not like I need much boosting in socialising, Okay, I lied. About the syllabus of this course, I hope I will be able to keep up and I will. As long as I don't skip any class , listen to what Mr K wants and do something about my memory spam, I should be able to ace this subject and turn out to be a writer that is attractive because of my tremendously high level of vocabulary. Hey, I can dream. Overall, this subject will most probably test my limits.

About The Girl

Who am I?

I am Chen Hsiao Wei. But most of the people or my friends normally just call me Winnie. And I am a girl. The Girl * I made it sound so bewildering. Hahahaa*

I was born in Taiwan, Taipei City according to my many of previous passports(I am a December baby by the way). But unfortunately, I did not grow up there. Come to think of it, I actually don’t mind. I mean, Malaysia is not such a bad country. I just wish that I get to visit Taiwan. Hope to do so one day. I was brought to Malaysia around the age of three to five. I have two siblings and they are my half sisters. My mother passed away when I was 5 and a year or two later, my father remarried. So, out popped my two lovely half sisters. They are like a decade or more younger than me. Currently, San is in standard 3 while En is in Standard 1. I don't really like the word "half sisters". It sounds so... Hmm. How do I put it? It made me and my sisters sound so distance, apart. It is like we don't have the same flesh and blood, like we are not from the same family. You know what I mean? Okay, technically, we only have half of the same DNA and whatever stuff in our gene. I am going to stop blabbering nonsense and get back to the topic.  Anyway, I am aware that I am a Chinese and I can’t read or write loads of Chinese. I am quite a shame of that. I mean, I am a Chinese from Taiwan! I am a disgrace to Chinese race. *Looks down in shame* 

What kind of person am I?

I am a pretty neutral person. I am many things. I am weird, indecisive( I hate having to choose sometimes. Why can’t I have both or all? Haha), quite open minded and so on and so forth. But the three major things that I know I am are awesome, fun and free-spirited. I am not a very particular or picky person either. I don’t act girly and what so ever but I do like clothes and some other girly things. But due to my father’s ridiculous restrictions, I am not free to express myself because of the limited, VERY limited range of clothing I can put on. It’s not like I want to dress up like a slut, I mean he wouldn’t even let me wear a freaking KNEE-LENGHT skirt. What is up with that?? Whatever. Anyway, I try to be as considerate as I can. I too try hard to be rational, not prejudice and not judgemental. I live by the one of the sayings which is “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover”. For instance, I don’t look very friendly or inviting to people I don’t know because I absolutely loathe making the first moves. I just LOATHE it. I can’t get over my over-thinking, awkwardness and shyness. But I am actually a very funny , friendly and nonsensical person. I can come up with all sorts of nonsense. However, I do know that I have to change how I make my first impressions if I want to pursue what I want to do. Besides that, I am quite a hot tempered person which is something that I am not proud of. Sometimes, it gets the best of me so I tend to rush my actions before thinking thoroughly and I always ended up regretting later. Don't worry, I am working on that and I think there are some significant improvements. Also, I am not the kind of person that likes start arguments or fights. I have better things to do. But if you (I am not talking about you Mr K. Haha. Just giving an example) mess with me, I will mess you up. I can be a very daring and awful person. Everyone has a dark side in them. Just saying.

Talents I possess.

Hmmm. I think I am not bad in drawing. I started picking up pencils since I was really young. I have quite an imagination. I have a pretty good stamina. I used to participate in my previous school’s cross country and I got quite a number of medals.*Okay, I will stop bragging now. Haha.* I can consume a lot of food if that considered is a talent. I can sleep in any condition. I am really good at hiding my sad feelings. And many more.

What do I lack of.

Mathematic skills. I suck at math. Computer/technology skills. Typing skills. I type really slow. Can’t swim and cycle. Sad right. Unfriendly facial expression when I am alone in an unfamiliar environment. And some other stuff.

My intellectual capacity.

Normal I guess. Hate mathematic. But I really like learning new random stuff. Like for instance, did you know that there was chicken that lived headless for about two years before it accidently choked to death by an eyedropper. And now it’s body is in some museum display. Interesting right?

Hobbies

Reading. Tv, movies, internet. Listening to music. Being active. Going out and trying new things. Buying things. ... Admiring attractive(as in not just physically speaking but also mentally) boys and girls. HAHAHAHA.

My beliefs.

Right and wrong. Equality. Professionalism during work. How I treat people is based on how they choose to treat me.

My social role.

A rotten daughter, an awful sister, a lazy and cunning student, a crappy girlfriend and an okay friend.

What would I change about myself physically?

Just my skin condition. I accept how I look but I can’t accept my dreadful skin condition.  It is just so dreadful.

What would I change about myself mentally?

I don’t think I would want to change anything about myself. I mean that’s what makes me who I am, AWESOME. But if given a choice, I would like to add a dose of patience in me though. Haha.