> Senior citizen confused over citizenship status
Senior citizen Tamrin Ismail, 72, has been living in Malaysia for over 30 years but remains confused over his citizenship status. Tamrin holds an identity card issued by the Singapore government, but on the document, it states that he is a Malaysian. The senior citizen said he is really not sure whether he is Malaysian or Singaporean, and hasn’t been able to apply for a MyKad because he does not have a birth certificate. The confusion and lack of documents have given him difficulties in terms of getting senior citizen benefits. “I am the third child of 11 siblings and was born in Benut, Pontian. During my teen years, I migrated to Singapore with a sister,” he said. He secured a job there and brought the rest of his siblings to live in Singapore. He said Malaysia and Singapore had not separated then and there was no need for a passport. In 1981, he married a woman from Masjid Tanah, in Alor Gajah, Malacca, and has settled there in a village since selling vegetables. He was issued a restricted Malaysian passport to visit Singapore, but when the document expired in 1996, Tamrin was not able to renew it because he does not have a MyKad and birth certificate.
> Cops bust gang of robbers, female ‘spy’
Police have nabbed a group of robbers that had targeted residential areas and used a female “spy” to scout the locations beforehand. The woman, who is one of the robbers’ wives, would drive around the neighbourhood and alert her accomplices to attack once the coast was clear. The group was busted by police in two special operations on April 8 and 13. The arrests of the three male suspects, aged between 21 and 31, has enabled police to solve 13 robbery cases which occurred between Jan and March.
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