SUPP PCB comes to aid of girl threatened by employer
KUCHING: Sarawak United People’s Party Public Complaints Bureau (SUPP PCB) will continue to help members of the public who have problems but do not know how to approach them. Its chief Wilfred Yap was recently approached by a father whose daughter’s employer had threatened and refused to return his daughter’s identity card until payment of […]
Jailed three months for threatening auxiliary cop
MIRI: A 45-year-old man was sentenced to three months’ jail this morning (17 Sept) for threatening an auxiliary policewoman at the airport here yesterday (16 Sept). According to Miri deputy police chief, Supt Mohd Sabri Zainol, the 45-year-old suspect was detained around 9.45am yesterday. “The incident occurred around 9.10 am that day. “The suspect […]
‘Superfungus’ threatens last Panamanian golden frogs
Cocooned from the outside world, some 200 critically endangered golden frogs are living a sheltered existence in Panama, protected from a devastating fungus that threatens to wipe out a third of the country’s amphibian species — a situation scientists describe as “critical”. The frogs, which are yellow or gold with black spots, enjoy a controlled […]
Machete-wielding man held
MIRI: A 31-year-old local man from Kampung Tudan Phase 3 here was nabbed for allegedly threatening a shophouse owner and his wife with a machete (parang). The arrest was made following a report lodged by the 51-year-old shop owner. The suspect was detained by a team of Miri Criminal Investigation department (CID) personnel at a […]
Baseball bat-wielding mirror smasher arrested
ROAD BULLYING CASE KUCHING: A 37-year-old man was arrested in front of a house in Everbright Estate at Jalan Batu Kawa here on suspicion of being involved in a road bullying case last Monday morning. Padawan district police chief Supt Aidil Bolhassan said the road bullying happened at 11.42am when the 33-year-old victim was driving […]
Jilted man threatens to kill himself
MIRI: A woman, in her 20s, lodged a police report last Monday after receiving scary text messages and a picture of suicide rope from her former boyfriend following their break-up. The complainant, a cobbler from Lambir, said in the text messages, her former boyfriend told her he would commit suicide and blamed her for it. […]
Red paint splash at officer’s gate
SIBU: An enforcement officer of Sibu Immigration Department has the front part of his house splashed with red paint on Thursday (June 18), apparently because the suspect was not happy that the officer had detained him previously. The suspect had also put a threatening note on the gate, warning him and family to be careful. […]
Roadkills threaten tapir population in Johor
By Lucia Terey John JOHOR BAHRU: It does not come as a surprise when one hears of wildlife getting killed because of human encroachment into their jungle habitat through unplanned development as well as poaching. But their being threatened by roadkill is something too much to bear. Saddening but that is the reality. The Malayan […]
