PUTRAJAYA: Allegations that some secondary school students sent for a motivation camp at Kluang Prison were physically abused are baseless, said the Prisons Department.

PETALING JAYA: Exposing students to life in prison will help prevent them from committing crimes in the future, said Suhakam commissioner James Nayagam.

However, he said, students should be informed in advance if school authorities plan to send them for such programmes.

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian students overseas need only to inform the Election Commission (EC) that they are out of the country so that they can vote.

EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Yusof said the students could register themselves as postal voters.

KUALA LUMPUR: The homeless should be the first group to receive food stamps if the measure is adopted here, said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil.

KUALA LUMPUR: Seven Immigration officers arrested last year under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for alleged involvement in human trafficking will be freed in stages from today, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hisham­muddin Hussein announced.