Perkasa: Affirmative action for all, but 30pc Bumi quota remains

Ibrahim Ali distributed money in white ang pow packets at
Perkasa’s first-ever Chinese New Year open house today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 — Perkasa declared today it supports needs-based affirmative action but insists that the 30 per cent quota for Malays and Bumiputeras remains in place as they are still lagging behind economically.

“If there is still a wide income disparity between the Bumiputeras and other races in the future, this can affect the country’s security,” Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali said despite 40 years of pro-Bumiputera affirmative action under the New Economic Policy (NEP).

But the Pasir Mas MP also pledged that the Malay rights NGO will fight to make sure all races are not economically disadvantaged.

The Perkasa president went through great pains to state that his organisation is not racist, and that it generally supports a “needs-based” affirmative action for all Malaysians, especially the poor.

“Perkasa’s struggle is based on the tenets of the Constitution, the country’s social contract. It does not mean we are racist.

Michelle Le's remains identified

A high school acquaintance has been charged with murder in the case of the East Bay nursing student who had been missing since May. The skeletal remains were found in a canyon Saturday.

A file photo of nursing student Michelle Le. Officials have determined that badly decomposed human remains found over the weekend in a California canyon are those of Le, who had been missing since May.

Reporting from San Francisco -- Skeletal remains found in a canyon east of San Francisco have been identified as those of Michelle Le, a nursing student who vanished in late May, police said Tuesday.

Remains of missing girl found at Masai graveyard

JOHOR BARU - The remains of a 16-year-old girl who went missing last month have been found at a graveyard.

The charred body of Nurrahayu Qomarodin (pic) was discovered by police at the graveyard in Masai on Sunday evening.

She was initially believed to have been abducted. However, it is learnt that the teenager was robbed and murdered and her body burnt twice at two separate areas before her remains were dumped at the graveyard.

Her father Qomarodin Abdullah, 47, said yesterday that Nurrahayu did not return home after going out for dinner with her boyfriend on June 18.

The family lodged a police report on her disappearance on June 20.Qomarodin said his daughter, the youngest of two siblings, was an intelligent and loving girl but she began to behave strangely about a week before she went missing.

“She did not want to go to school. She just wanted to be with her family,” he said.

The police, he said, had yet to recover some of his daughter’s body parts, including the head.

Seri Alam OCPD Supt Roslan Zainuddin said police had detained a 47-year-old security guard in connection with the case.

“We believe the victim was initially a robbery target as she often collected the daily earnings from her father who works as a canteen operator in a quarry,” he said.