Nation
Wednesday August 2, 2006
Tribute to KTAR student
NANYANG Siang Pau placed a full-page condolence message on its front-page in remembrance of 18-year-old Lee Khian Yip, who was hacked to death in Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur, last Saturday night.
Two robbers on a motorcycle attacked the first-year Tunku Abdul Rahman College (KTAR) accountancy student when he was walking back to his hostel with a friend after having dinner nearby.
The daily said a website,
http://www.you-zi.net/AskForPeace, had been set up on Monday by a concerned group in response to Khian Yip’s death.
The group, it added, hoped the police would hunt down the assailants as soon as possible and the relevant authorities would also take immediate action to prevent crime in the area.
Sin Chew Daily reported that Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia students of different sexes were not allowed to return to their main campus in Bangi after midnight in the same vehicle.
The daily quoted a student who declined to be named as saying that it was unclear when the university introduced the ruling but many had been warned about it by word of mouth.
According to the student, if both males and females are found in the same vehicle, those of one sex will have to get out.
Those caught the first time will also have to leave their student passes at the campus entrance and can only collect them the next day.
The student also claimed that the guards had the right to impose a fine on those contravening the ruling, but did not state the sum involved.
A China Press report said the private sector was not in favour of the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry’s push for a longer maternity leave period.
The daily quoted SMI Association of Malaysia secretary-general Lee Teck Meng as saying that the private sector would be deterred from employing married women if the Government made it compulsory for companies to give workers 84 days of maternity leave.
“It is impossible for employers to hire another staff member to do the same job as there will then be an extra person when the one on maternity leave is back. This will increase a company’s operating cost,” he said.
Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia vice-president Datuk Seri Lam Kam Sang said such a move would be very unfair to the private sector in Malaysia, as it needed efficient production lines to grow rapidly.
