Best friends: A reunion of former employees in Sydney on March 24,2012 at the home of Khoo Teng Guan and Muriel Speeden with guests (standing from left) John Santiago, SF Yong, Michael Aeria and Teng Guan and (seated from left) Tan Thean Peng, John Chong, Muriel, Geh Guat Beng and Ooi Kim Kee. All of them worked with The Star previously.
BACK in the days when The Star had its office in Jalan Travers, Kuala Lumpur, one of our bosses used to say: The first language here is Hokkien, second is Tamil and English is a poor third.
If you had dropped by the office then, you may be surprised to see N. Dorairaj from the sports desk and the Circulation Department’s SP Ramasamy (Samy) conversing in Hokkien with their colleagues.
Repeat offender gets jail, whipping for drug abuse 26 Apr 2021 / 16:59 H. Pix for illustration purposes.
KUALA
LUMPUR: The Sessions Court today sentenced a repeat drug offender, R. Puvenesvaran, to six years in jail and one stroke of the rotan for administering amphetamine and methamphetamine into his body two years ago.
Judge Ahmad Kamar Jamaludin meted out the punishment to Puvenesvaran, 36, after finding that the accused had failed to raise reasonable doubt at the end of the defence case.
“Thus, the court has found the accused guilty and convict him on the charge,“ said the judge, who also ordered the accused, who had previously been jailed four times for the same type of offences, to serve the jail term from the date he was arrested on March 7, 2019.
KUALA LUMPUR: An Uzbekistan national has been detained for allegedly making a false report on an extortion case near Solaris Mont Kiara.
Brickfields OCPD Asst Comm Anuar Omar said the 37-year-old man claimed to have lost RM8,000 after being allegedly extorted by police patrol personnel last Sunday (Feb 21). The man lodged the report on Thursday (Feb 25). A team of police personnel raided a premises at Jalan Travers at 8.33pm on Saturday (Feb 27). We seized three ATM cards, two mobile phones, two bank statements and a police report, he said when contacted on Sunday (Feb 28).
Further investigation revealed that the man, who works as a craftsman in Shah Alam, had given inconsistent statements, he added.
Foreigner arrested for making false police report 28 Feb 2021 / 13:40 H.
KUALA LUMPUR: An Uzbekistan national who claimed he lost RM8,000 to police extortionists was arrested on Saturday after he was found to have lodged a false police report.
Brickfields police chief ACP Anuar Omar said today that the 37-year-old foreigner had made the allegations in a police report on Thursday.
He said the man who works as a craftsman in Shah Alam claimed that the cash was taken from him by police patrolmen at a road shoulder at Jalan Solaris 1, Solaris Mont Kiara here.
Anuar said an investigation was carried out and when the foreigner’s statements were found to be inconsistent, police conducted a raid at a premises on Jalan Selangor, off Jalan Travers on Saturday where several bank cards, banking slips and cellphones were seized.
KUALA LUMPUR: Former attorney general Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali has joined the growing number of people who have lodged police reports against his successor Tan Sri Tommy Thomas over his recently released book My Story: Justice in the Wilderness.
Apandi filed the police report at the Sentul police headquarters yesterday, claiming the purpose of the police report is for justice to be done for him and members of the Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC).
He also claimed that Thomas had violated the Official Secrets Acts through the publication of his memoir.
“It’s (the police report) seeking justice, not only for me, but for others who have been scandalised and humiliated by the book, especially officers of the Attorney General’s Chambers.