Tuesday June 2, 2009
Brickfields restaurant creates ‘Najib’s Corner’ to show support
WHEN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak visited Brickfields – known as the Little India of Kuala Lumpur – soon after taking office in April, he left more than just a good impression on the residents.
Tamil Nesan reported that a popular restaurant there now has a “Najib’s Corner” after its owner named part of the outlet after the Prime Minister.
Owner of the Kortumalai Pillar Restaurant S. Sathasivam said he did it because he wanted to honour and show his support for Najib. He said “Najib’s Corner,” was adorned with photographs of Najib’s visit there during the walkabout.
The restaurant is located near the junction of Jalan Tun Sambantan and Jalan Travers. Deputy Federal Territories Minister Datuk M. Saravanan said the people’s support and respect for the Prime Minister had increased after his visit to the area.
> Malaysia Nanban reported that Amnesty International had called for an independent probe into the number of civilians killed in the final weeks of Sri Lanka’s civil war and urged the United Nations to reveal its own estimates.
The call by the rights group followed a report in The Times newspaper in London on Friday citing confi dential UN reports that Sri Lankan army shelling had killed more than 20,000 civilians.
Amnesty’s Asia Pacific director Sam Zarifi said they had continued to receive reports of widespread human rights violations, with more than 280,000 people displaced by the recent fighting and now restricted to staterun welfare camps in the island’s north.
He said despite repeated calls, the Sri Lankan government continued to restrict access to the camps by international humanitarian organisations.
Sri Lanka’s Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe dismissed Amnesty’s call and said the organisation was being ridiculous to keep harping on things that they could not substantiate.
- Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a > sign, it denotes a separate news item.
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