Facebook Being Used To Recruit Female Drug Mules

By BOB Goswami

MALAYSIA NEWS - Malaysian official said that the international drug syndicates were using popular social networking site Facebook to recruit Malaysian women as drug mules. The officials said the women were offered gifts and money and befriend with men on this social networking site, and afterward hired as drug mules.

Deputy Foreign Minister Richard Riot said most of these men were nationals of Nigeria and South Africa. He further cautioned women to be aware of these luring offers.

Last month a Malaysian girl was arrested in China for drugs possession in the country and revealed that she was hired after befriend in Facebook. Mr. Riot said men in international drug syndicates up clean women on Facebook and lured them into drug business.

He said the men chatted with girls in Facebook and gained trust and lured them with expensive gifts and eventually used these unsuspecting victims as drug mules to smuggle narcotics. Even in far cases they offered them holiday packages Japan, China and South America, asking girls to carry packages, bags or gifts that contain drugs.

He urged internet savvy university aged girls to not accept such holiday packages and gifts as some ulterior strings always attached to those.

785 out of 1,560 Malaysians arrested overseas since 1991 were drug mules, including 149 women.

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December 02, 2010 | 0 comments

School For Pregnant Teens In Malaysia

By MALILA Harris

MALAYSIA NEWS – Muslim dominated Malaysia has opened a first ever school for pregnant teenagers, trying to curb the increasing number of forsaken babies.

The school has opened in the southern state of Malacca and will help teenage pregnant girls to cope up with the so called shame of giving birth outside marriage.

The school will give religious counseling as well as medical check-ups.

In recent times, teenage pregnancy is quite prevalent in the country, and young mothers abandon their babies out of shame. About 70 babies have been left on doorsteps, in trash cans and even at public toilets.

The problem has caused much uproar in social workers as well as general citizens. The newly developed school assures privacy and protection to pregnant teenagers as well giving education.

Islam is the largest and official religion of the nation. Although the country is quite liberal in its approach still police believe that unmarried couples abandon their babies because they don’t want to disclose the fact that they have pre-marital sex. Muslims are generally expected to abstain till marriage according to their religion.

Due to the problem of pre-marriage pregnancy, religious officials came to a consensus to approve marriages of more girls under the age of 16.

The school, however, is facing antagonism from Malaysian women’s minister. They say the mainstream school for teenage pregnant women further worsens the situation and aloof girls from the society. They argued that problem lied in lack of sex education in schools and colleges.

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September 17, 2010 | 0 comments