The Star Online: Metro: South & East
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- Task force to be set up to weed out scratch and win rings in Johor
- Young Johorean overcomes personal obstacles to achieve his dreams
- Twelve entertainment outlets told to move out
| Task force to be set up to weed out scratch and win rings in Johor Posted: 09 Jun 2013 06:04 PM PDT JOHOR BARU: Johor police have set up a task force to weed out scratch and win syndicates and prevent more people from becoming victims. State police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said members of the public continued to be conned despite regular reports on such scams in the media. "We are going all out on the syndicates as they do not only involve Malaysians but also foreigners especially Singaporeans and tarnish the country's image," he said. DCP Mohd Mokhtar said on that note, Johor police would work closely with its Singapore counterparts to spread the message to Singaporeans who visited Johor from being cheated by these unscrupulous people. He said this to reporters after attending the monthly police assembly at the Johor police contingent headquarters on Friday. "To date, we have nabbed eight individuals who were involved in the scratch and win cases and produced them in court," added DCP Mohd Mokhtar. He said the cases were being investigated under Section 420 of Penal Code for cheating adding that police would also cooperate with the Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Ministry. DCP Mohd Mokhar advised members of the public to be wary and suspicious when approached by strangers who claimed that they had won big ticket items such as luxury cars. "When the offer is too good too be true, there must be something fishy going on and the best way is to walk away from these people," he said. DCP Mohd Mokhtar said if the scratch and win agents continue to intimidate potential victims despite declining their offer, they should lodge police report at the nearby police stations. Earlier at the event, he presented promotional letters to 127 police officers and cash money to children of police personnel who excelled in their UPSR, PMR, SPM and STPM examinations. |
| Young Johorean overcomes personal obstacles to achieve his dreams Posted: 09 Jun 2013 10:28 PM PDT JOHOR BARU: Despite suffering from a mild hearing impairment at birth, 25-year-old Dr B.S. Vishnu Prashad never let his disability stop him from achieving his ambition of becoming a doctor. He said it had always been his dream to follow his father's footsteps to work in a hospital since he was a young boy and it came true when he graduated from Monash University Malaysia in 2012. He said before enrolling into the medical school five years ago, he was turned down by a couple local private universities which offered medical courses due to his hearing impairment. Five years later, not only is he now doing his first posting as a houseman at the Kuantan Hospital with his father, who is a medical laboratory technologist, he was also a winner of the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) Johor branch award for 2012. "I was lucky that Monash accepted me despite my condition," he said, when met at the Monash Clinical School in Johor Bahru (CSJB) for the MMA award ceremony. Dr Vishnu went on to perform excellently in his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) studies, engaging in a series of community work and eventually graduated with first class honours from the programme. He explained that he was born with a slight hearing impairment caused by congenial condition at birth but he had never looked at it as a disability. "When I told people that I want to be a doctor, they would question my ability to listen to a stethoscope. "But the problem was easily solved with the help with an electronic stethoscope that my parents bought for RM4,400, which I can adjust the frequency to help me listen better," he said. He said that he never lets his condition get in the way of whatever he does, adding that his recipe for success was not to view a small setback as a problem or obstruction on the journey to success. "As long as you set your goal and work hard to achieve your target, nothing is able to stop you from getting what you want," he added. |
| Twelve entertainment outlets told to move out Posted: 09 Jun 2013 06:02 PM PDT MALACCA: Operators of 12 entertainment outlets at Taman Merdeka Permai and Batu Berendam have been slapped with a three-month notice to shift their business operations to Melaka Raya, following the recent decision by state government to centralise night life activities in one area. The directive was issued by Hang Tuah Jaya Municipal Council (MPHTJ) recently to all the operators in both the areas which come under the local government's jurisdiction. MPHTJ's president Sapiah Haron said the notices were handed over to the operators once the official letter on the implementation of the ruling was issued by state government. "The operators have been given deadline until Aug 7 to shift their operations and those who fail to adhere would face the music," she said when contacted, recently. Sapiah stressed that her officers would not entertain any forms of appeal from the operators once the grace period is over. "The operators may face RM10,000 compound and have their premises sealed if the failed to abide to the notice," she said. Sapiah said any punitive actions will be done accordingly to the council's Entertainment Enactment 2012. She said on a long term plan, the council will stop issuance of entertainment licences at areas under its purview. "In the meantime, we will also intensify our enforcement effort to eradicate any illegal operation of such outlets after Aug 7," she added. |
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