To Act .... or not?


Better option: Teenage rehabilitation programmes such as Kem Perkasa, initiated by Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, wife of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, are more effective than punitive measures.

The Home Ministry is mulling an Anti-social Behaviour Act in Malaysia to empower the police to move against youths who are causing public nuisance. How effective will it be in keeping children safe and preventing juvenile delinquency?

HE’S only doing what children do” – so said a 24-year-old mother in Britain about her noisy two-year-old son.

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