In conjunction with Malaysia Day on Sept 16, Princess of Selangor, Tengku Datin Paduka Setia Zatashah Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, virtually honours six ordinary Malaysians who have stepped up to bring about positive community impact through their initiatives or cause on Sept 14. They are: Philanthropist Kuan Chee Heng or fondly known as Uncle Kentang, who has been providing various types of aid and assistance to the underprivileged; Executive Director of North-South Initiative, Adrian Pereira, who champions human rights and labour rights among marginalised communities; Master Builder at Epic Homes, Esther Chit, who bridges the urban and rural divide through the act of building homes for underprivileged communities; Animal activist, Aunty Jenny, who has been rescuing strays for the past 20 years; Volunteer coordinator Har Yin Geong, who assists senior citizens with their vaccination appointments; and Home cook Siamy Tan, who coordinates a team of other home cooks to p
In line for inoculation: Volunteers checking vaccination appointment details of foreign workers at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. FAIHAN GHANI/The Star
PETALING JAYA: The government must give its assurance that undocumented migrant workers and refugees going for their Covid-19 vaccinations will not be detained by the authorities, several groups have said.
Migrants rights groups and the Indonesian Embassy sought a guarantee from the authorities that undocumented migrants would not be arrested from Aug 1, with those in the Klang Valley allowed to walk in to any Covid-19 vaccination centre to get their jabs.
They said the migrants were willing to be vaccinated but were afraid of being apprehended by the authorities.
June 28, 2021
A medical worker tests a child at a free Covid-19 testing site in Shah Alam, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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In the interior of Malaysia’s Sabah state, two thirds of which remains under forest cover, citizens are deeply sceptical about Covid-19 vaccinations.
The state has experienced its fair share of trauma during the pandemic, stemming from its experience as the “ground zero” of the nationwide third wave of infections that stretches back to September.
Despite having witnessed deaths and hospitalisations, “many are afraid” of what inoculations might do to them, Jannie Lasimbang, a Sabah state assemblywoman, told This Week in Asia.
PETALING JAYA: A civil society group lodged a police report against a Facebook group for allegedly falsely claiming that a Christian leader insulted Muslims.
North-South Initiative executive director and co-founder Adrian Pereira, who lodged the police report, said that the Hud Hud Crew Facebook page had posted an audio clip of Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur Julian Leow Beng Kim where it alleged that he said he wanted to “boil Muslims like frogs”.
In the police report on Friday (April 30), Pereira said that at no point in the audio clip had Leow made any comments, insulted or made any reference whatsoever to any religion.