Blanket snooping is abuse of power

Growing threat ... of privacy invasion

BRITAIN'S police and MI5 and MI6 spy agencies are understandably living in dread of a world-shaking terror attack on the summer Olympics.

Indeed they are so afraid of a new 9/11 that they plan an unprecedented invasion of our individual privacy.

All phone calls, texts, tweets and computer keystrokes are to be monitored, kept on file and used as and when seen fit.

This massive escalation in intelligence gathering has been condemned even by senior Tory MPs as nothing less than snooping.

Abuse video angers netizens

PETALING JAYA - A year-old video, which resurfaced in the past 48 hours, has irked Netizens over its disturbing images of a man who slapped, punched and kicked two female student nurses.

The YouTube clip also showed the man, believed to be in his 20s, repeatedly intimidating his victims using vulgarities in Tamil at a public parking lot.

Ironically titled "Malaysian Heroes", the video has also been circulated on Facebook.

Cambodian maids tell of abuse by their employers

The government says it condemns abuse of maid but has not done anything o review the laws to protect them, say human rights activists .

KUALA LUMPUR: Hok Pov had never been beaten and never known hunger until she came to work in Malaysia in April.

In the six weeks that she worked as a maid for a Malaysian family, she says she lost 10 kilograms while toiling 20 hours a day with little to eat. Often she was slapped and punched by her employer, she says.

“I was so hungry that I even ate chicken bones,” a sobbing Hok Pov, 31, said at the office of Malaysian rights’ group Tenaganita that rescued her in June with the help of police.