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Free Malaysia Today
5 days ago
- Free Malaysia Today
4-day remand for man who allegedly slashed ex at Subang varsity
The victim, also a foreigner and aged 20, was immediately taken to Universiti Malaya Medical Centre after the incident. PETALING JAYA : A 21-year-old foreigner who allegedly slashed his former girlfriend at Taylor's University in Subang Jaya has been remanded for four days. According to Sinar Harian, Shah Alam magistrate Redza Azhar Rezali issued the remand order earlier today. The suspect was arrested following a report lodged at about 6.30pm yesterday after the victim was slashed. The victim, also a foreigner and aged 20, was taken to Universiti Malaya Medical Centre. She is in stable condition. Videos showing a couple of young women attending to the victim had made the rounds on social media. They were seen tending to injuries on her neck.
South China Morning Post
5 days ago
- South China Morning Post
Viral knife attack on Chinese student shocks Malaysia
Malaysian police arrested a 21-year-old Chinese national on Monday on suspicion of slashing his ex-girlfriend's neck with a knife at Taylor's University on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. Footage of the attack posted by students to Reddit and RedNote showed the victim, aged 20 and also Chinese, sprawled on the floor, clutching her neck as friends desperately called for help. Other students restrained the suspect, who was still holding a knife, until authorities arrived. Subang Jaya police confirmed that the victim had suffered a slash wound to the left side of her neck but said she was in a stable condition. A screengrab of a social media video shows the suspect, a Chinese national, being restrained as friends try to help the victim following a knife attack at Taylor's University in Malaysia on Monday. Photo: Reddit 'She was taken to the emergency unit of University of Malaya Medical Centre (PPUM) and placed in the red zone for further treatment,' district police chief Wan Azlan Wan Mamat said in a statement. A Taylor's University student, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the relationship between the victim and suspect had soured dramatically after their break-up, with the suspect allegedly threatening his ex-girlfriend's pet cat if she insisted on ending the relationship. 'He sprayed the cat with bug spray. I think it really died. There's a video of the incident being shared among students,' the student told This Week in Asia. The victim was reportedly being detained against her will before the attack. Maniishapriet Kaur Akhara, who was murdered in her dorm at a Malaysian university on June 23. Photo: Handout News of the attack has shocked the Malaysian public, fuelling debate online about campus safety and student behaviour. Many questioned whether universities were adequately protecting students given the recent spate of 'very risky' incidents.
Free Malaysia Today
12-06-2025
- Business
- Free Malaysia Today
Build homes above park-and-ride lots, not train stations, says expert
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim recently proposed developing new people's housing directly atop or next to public transport stations to improve urban accessibility and sustainability. (MRT pic) PETALING JAYA : Instead of attempting to build homes directly on top of train stations, an urban design expert is proposing a more practical alternative: construct high-density residential units on their adjacent park-and-ride lots. Keith Tan of Taylor's University said constructing houses over existing stations was unfeasible due to major structural limitations, but many park-and-ride lots offered untapped potential. Keith Tan. 'It is very difficult to build new buildings directly on top of existing MRT or LRT stations unless the station was originally designed to accommodate vertical expansion within its footprint under a second phase,' the associate professor of architecture told FMT. Modern high-rise buildings typically rely on deep pile foundations topped with thick concrete rafts, which were impossible to install without closing or demolishing parts of a functioning transport terminal, he explained. 'In the case of park-and-ride lots, new elevated podiums or basement levels can be constructed to replace the lost parking and support both the public transport station and the residential building,' said Tan. Tan's comments come on the heels of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's proposal to develop new public housing atop or next to transport stations to improve urban accessibility and sustainability. However, this idea of transit-oriented developments (TODs) isn't entirely new in Malaysia, according to Siva Shanker of Rahim & Co International Sdn Bhd. Siva Shanker. Siva said the demand for TODs had surged in recent years, with some projects marketed as TODs even when the nearest station was 500 metres away. He said these homes often come with steep price tags, but that affordability could be achieved if the government intervened, especially on land costs. 'If the government owns the land and gives it to developers at a lower cost — say, RM10 per square foot instead of RM50 — that savings can be passed on to the buyers,' he said. With new rail lines planned in Johor Bahru and Penang, Tan said it was time to rethink how TODs are designed.
Free Malaysia Today
09-05-2025
- General
- Free Malaysia Today
Adopt risk-based urban planning to avoid repeat of Putra Heights incident
A gas pipeline fire on April 1 caused severe damage to houses and vehicles, and traumatised the local community. PETALING JAYA : Malaysia needs to adopt risk-based urban planning to prevent future disasters involving high-risk infrastructure, says an expert. Commenting on a housing rental association's call for mandatory density impact studies in new projects, Camelia May Li Kusumo said although such tools exist in the National Physical Plan and Town and Country Planning Act 1976, they do not account for threats posed by underground gas pipelines. 'The term 'density impact study' typically refers to evaluations assessing the effects of increasing building density on factors like housing prices or indoor air temperatures,' she told FMT. Camelia May Li Kusumo. Kusumo, of Taylor's University, said risks like gas pipelines are typically assessed under the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process — but even that may be inadequate today. 'The federal guidelines themselves must be periodically updated to reflect changing land use and urban density,' she said. 'For example, while the pipelines in Putra Heights were constructed around 50 years ago, the residential area in the vicinity was only developed 26 years ago. The land-use patterns and urban density in the area have significantly evolved since then.' The April 1 fire in Putra Heights severely damaged homes and vehicles, traumatising the local community and prompting calls for tougher planning requirements. To prevent similar incidents, Kusumo called for regulatory reforms, including a location classification system for high-risk infrastructure, and real-time monitoring technologies, including through the use of remote pressure sensors and smart meters. 'This would allow for better risk modelling and the determination of safe distances between buildings and hazardous facilities,' she said. Noor Hashimah Hashim Lim. Meanwhile, Universiti Malaya's Noor Hashimah Hashim Lim said authorities must also prioritise comprehensive underground infrastructure mapping. 'Otherwise, we are digging our grounds blindly, which may cause an impact on nearby underground infrastructure,' she said. Noor Hashimah said the data gap hampers the efforts of local authorities to set effective development requirements. She said developers typically comply with requirements once they are formally set, but will aim to meet the bare minimum unless the rules are clear and consistently enforced. 'If the authorities themselves do not have enough data to make informed decisions, then their requirements to developers will also be loose,' she said.
