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Govt's 'tough love' for students
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Govt's 'tough love' for students
Delayed panic over Hadi's safety
Najib: Wasn't me
Govt's 'tough love' for students
The government is leaning towards "tough love" amid a scare over a perceived spike in violence at schools.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim backed calls for caning to be reintroduced in schools, but stressed that it was only his opinion.
He also said that should caning be reintroduced it can only be done under strict conditions.
Meanwhile, police in Malacca are doing random checks in schools to see if teens have porn on their phones.
Malacca police chief Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said: “it is better for the children to cry now than for us to cry later”.
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Delayed panic over Hadi's safety
PAS is sounding the alarm after a group of Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency commandos paid a visit to the Rusila mosque.
Party leaders alleged that the commandos had "raided" the mosque, which is right next door to PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's house.
They also alleged the group acted suspiciously near Hadi's house.
However, it's unclear why the panic is surfacing now, as the incident occurred over a month ago.
The MMEA said that the commandos had only visited the mosque to pray and take a break from a training exercise.
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Najib: Wasn't me
Najib Abdul Razak's 1MDB trial is nearing an end, with oral submissions underway.
He is sticking with his defence: He didn't do anything wrong.
Instead, he said the actual perpetrators were former 1MDB officials who diverted billions away from the company and later became prosecution witnesses
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