M’sians’ kindness backfiring: PM

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has said that the problem
of rising numbers of illegal immigrants in the eastern state of Sabah was
due to the kindness of locals offering them shelter and jobs, a news
report said yesterday.

Located on Borneo island, Sabah shares a border with Indonesia and has a
large number of illegal Filipino immigrants.

“If our people … want to accept them, give shelter, give work, then they
will continue to come.

” Malaysian people are always very kind, very generous, and that becomes a
problem sometimes,” Mr Abdullah said. – DPA

Copycat YouTube massacre threat

Finnish police have detained a teenage boy who allegedly posted a video on
YouTube threatening a massacre similar to the one that occurred last week
at a high school in Finland.

The 16-year-old posted a 30-second-long video showing his “school and a
person with a weapon in hand”, a police spokesman said. He said the teen
had told police “it was a joke, that he had no intention” of carrying out
the massacre.

Teen killer Pekka-Eric Auvinen posted a video threat on YouTube two days
before the murders at a Finnish school last week. He killed himself after
the shootings. – AFP