Enter the cycling Mat Rempit


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 19 Feb 2017

A screengrab from a YouTube video showing youths on bicycles pulling off stunts in the middle of a road in Johor Baru.

KUALA LUMPUR: We all can breathe a huge sigh of relief that Malaysians don't live within the so-called geographical "Ring of Fire" which is prone to natural disasters like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

But wait a minute, just look at the grim statistics for man-made disasters or more specifically the number of people who die on our roads – averaging 6,700 annually and growing.

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