Monday, 19 July 2021
Friend Reunion Story
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
Dayus Kalau Menyebar Kepalsuan
Thursday, 1 July 2021
The Price of Being Dayus
This is not the only case of Police brutality in Malaysia, but this is the only case where justice has been served. This justice cannot be achieved if the families did not fight their cases of injustice to the highest courts in Malaysia. It also shows that justice is not lost forever in Malaysia. There are still judges who still want to uphold justice.
Families of youths fatally shot by police at Glenmarie in 2010 get over RM1.5mil
SHAH ALAM (Bernama): The High Court here has awarded over RM1.5mil in damages to the families of three youths who were shot dead by police 11 years ago.
Judge Datuk Khadijah Idris made the ruling on Tuesday (June 29), after allowing the appeal by the families who were representing the youths in the suit, namely, Muhammad Shamil Shapiei, Mohd Hairul Nizam Tuah and Muhamad Hanafi Omar.
Counsel Zaid Malek, representing the families of the youths, told reporters via WhatsApp on Wednesday (June 30) that Justice Khadijah allowed the appeal by the youths’ families to set aside the decision by the registrar of the High Court, which awarded RM207,000 to the families.
"The families who were dissatisfied with the amount had appealed to the Shah Alam High Court for the damages to be reassessed and which resulted in the total sum of RM1,519,200 million awarded yesterday, ” he said.
On Aug 11, 2015, Shah Alam High Court judge Rozana Ali Yusoff dismissed the suit and ordered the plaintiffs to pay costs of RM20,000 to the defendants.
However, on Sept 1, 2016, the Court of Appeal in allowing the appeal by the families held that the police were liable for the shooting deaths of three youths and ordered the case to be remitted to the Shah Alam High Court for assessment of damages before a registrar.
Zaid also hoped that the Attorney-General’s Chambers would not appeal against the decision so that the matter could finally be put to rest.
"We also call upon the government and police to take immediate disciplinary and criminal action against the police officers responsible for the illegal execution, ” the lawyer said.
He said of the total RM1,519,200 million awarded, each family would receive over RM500,000 for general damages, estate claims, public misfeasance, aggravated damages and exemplary damages, and another RM11,200 in dependency claims for Mohd Hairul Nizam's family and RM8,000 for Muhamad Hanafi's family.
"After almost 11 years, the families of the victims of the Glenmarie shooting finally receive a modicum of justice for the immense trauma and loss that they had to endure due to the actions of the police, ” he said.
The lawsuit for assault, battery and negligence was filed in November 2013 against the police and the government by the families of Muhammad Shamil Shapiei, 15, Mohd Hairul Nizam Tuah, 20, and Muhamad Hanafi Omar, 22, who were reportedly shot by policemen on duty at Glenmarie, Shah Alam, about 4am on Nov 13, 2010.
The families of the plaintiffs also named the Shah Alam district police chief, Selangor police chief, Inspector-General of Police, the government of Malaysia and the police officers yet to be identified as the defendants.
In the statement of claim, the plaintiffs, among others, alleged that the three youths died as a result of the policemen's actions and without justification. - Bernama
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Secrets of Happy Nation: Environmental Hardships
'World's happiest country' seeks migrants

HELSINKI: Repeatedly dubbed the happiest nation on the planet with world-beating living standards, Finland should be deluged by people wanting to relocate, but in fact it faces an acute workforce shortage.
"It's now widely acknowledged that we need a spectacular number of people to come to the country," recruiter Saku Tihverainen from agency Talented Solutions told AFP.
Workers are needed "to help cover the cost of the greying generation", the recruiter explained.
While many Western countries are battling weak population growth, few are feeling the effects as sharply as Finland.
With 39.2 over-65s per 100 working-age people, it is second only to Japan in the extent of its ageing population, according to the UN, which forecasts that by 2030 the "old age dependency ratio" will rise to 47.5.
The government has warned that the nation of 5.5 million needs to practically double immigration levels to 20,000-30,000 a year to maintain public services and plug a looming pensions deficit.
Finland might seem like an attractive destination on paper, scoring high in international comparisons for quality of life, freedom and gender equality, with little corruption, crime and pollution.
But anti-immigrant sentiment and a reluctance to employ outsiders are also widespread in Western Europe's most homogenous society, and the opposition far-right Finns Party regularly draws substantial support during elections.
After years of inertia, businesses and government "are now at the tipping point and are recognising the problem" posed by a greying population, said Charles Mathies, a research fellow at the Academy of Finland.
Mathies is one of the experts consulted by the government's "Talent Boost" programme, now in its fourth year, which aims to make the country more attractive internationally, in part through local recruitment schemes.
Those targeted include health workers from Spain, metalworkers from Slovakia, and IT and maritime experts from Russia, India and Southeast Asia.
But previous such efforts have petered out.
In 2013, five of the eight Spanish nurses recruited to the western town of Vaasa left after a few months, citing Finland's exorbitant prices, cold weather and notoriously complex language.
Finland has nonetheless seen net immigration for much of the last decade, with around 15,000 more people arriving than leaving in 2019.
But many of those quitting the country are higher-educated people, official statistics show.
Faced with the OECD's largest skilled worker shortage, some Finnish startups are creating a joint careers site to better bag overseas talent.
"As you can imagine, this is a slow burner," Shaun Rudden from food delivery firm Wolt said in an email, adding that "We try to make the relocation process as painless as possible."
Startups "have told me that they can get anyone in the world to come and work for them in Helsinki, as long as he or she is single," the capital's mayor, Jan Vapaavuori, said to AFP.
But "their spouses still have huge problems getting a decent job."
Many foreigners complain of a widespread reluctance to recognise overseas experience or qualifications, as well as prejudice against non-Finnish applicants.
Ahmed (who requested his name be changed for professional reasons) is a 42-year-old Brit with many years' experience in building digital products for multinational, household-name companies.
Yet six months of networking and applying for jobs in Helsinki, where he was trying to move for family reasons, proved fruitless.
"One recruiter even refused to shake my hand, that was a standout moment," he told AFP.
"There was never a shortage of jobs going, just a shortage of mindset," said Ahmed, who during his search in Finland received offers from major companies in Norway, Qatar, the UK and Germany, and eventually began commuting weekly from Helsinki to Dusseldorf.
Recruiter Saku Tihverainen said shortages are pushing more companies to loosen their insistence on only employing native Finnish workers.
"And yet, a lot of the Finnish companies and organisations are very adamant about using Finnish, and very fluent Finnish at that," he said.
For Helsinki mayor Jan Vaaavuori, four years of Finland being voted the world's happiest country in a UN ranking have "not yet helped as much as we could have hoped."
"If you stop someone in the street in Paris or London or Rome or New York, I still don't think most people know about us," he mused.
Mayor Vapaavuori, whose four-year term ends this summer, has turned increasingly to international PR firms to help raise the city's profile.
He is optimistic about Finland's ability to attract talent from Asia in future, and believes people's priorities will have changed once international mobility ramps up again post-coronavirus.
Helsinki's strengths, being "safe, functional, reliable, predictable -- those values have gained in importance," he said, adding: "Actually I think our position after the pandemic is better than it was before." -- AFP
Monday, 21 June 2021
The Real Reason for Illegal Immigration
Thursday, 13 May 2021
Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj. Ahmad with Datuk Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj. Ahmad
Despite having exactly the same name and engineering title, I am no on speaking term with the datuk.






