There is an urgent need to establish an effective system to improve practices related to suicide prevention in Malaysia. So said criminologist Datuk Dr P. Sundramoorthy, who added that preventing suicides involves a whole of society approach. According to the World Health Organisation, 703,000 people take their own lives annually, with many more attempting suicides….
PETALING JAYA: Cybersecurity experts say many Malaysians are gullible and tend to believe anything they see online, making them easy prey for scammers. The experts have raised concerns that such naivety may lead to more cases like a recent one in Ipoh where a 64-year-old woman lost RM5.29 million in a love scam. Universiti Sains Malaysia…
GEORGE TOWN: The mat rempit/illegal street racing issue cannot be ignored and must be addressed with great urgency, a leading criminologist said. Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Datuk Dr P. Sundramoorthy said the activity threatened public safety as it endangered road users and the riders themselves. He said these street racers were aggressive and violent towards road…
PETALING JAYA: The data of Malaysians could fall into the wrong hands if the country becomes a target of cyberwarfare, experts said. According to a report by The Malaysian Insight, the recent cybersecurity breaches in government agencies showed Malaysia was neither prepared nor equipped for a cyber attack. Cybersecurity expert Professor Dr Selvakumar Manickam of University…
KUALA LUMPUR: While eradicating the spectre of smuggling may be a next-to-impossible task, the government has been urged to pull out all the stops to bring it down to a manageable level. Failure to do this, says criminologist Datuk Dr P. Sundramoorthy, could lead to a knock-on effect of heightened security risks due to the…
An addiction therapist says Malaysia should push to decriminalise drug use in small quantities as it will help addicts on the road to recovery. Chris Sekar, who is an addiction therapist at Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur, however, says that the minimum quantity allowed for personal use by addicts should be set at 20g. “Under Malaysia’s…
It has been three years since Malaysia first announced its plan to decriminalise drug use in small quantities. This effort appears to have gone up in smoke following the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan government in 2020. The policy is not meant to legalise personal drug use, but rather, to decriminalise it for those who…
KUALA LUMPUR: Concerns have been raised over a possible weak spot in Malaysia’s cyber security system, which could potentially grant unscrupulous parties access to the data of millions of Malaysians. The breach allegedly came in the form of an Open Systems Intelligence (OSINT) tool that is available on the publicly accessible Internet, which in theory…
