IPOH: Besides creating an awareness on the importance of education to rural folk under the MCA Langkawi Project, 40 students from TAR College (TARC) also took the opportunity to spread the "Say No To Ecstasy" message in their seven-day stay in Kampung Tawas here. Rain or shine, they were seen cycling house-to-house to pass on the message and persuade villagers to attend a talk and exhibition on the anti-Ecstasy campaign yesterday. The students also delivered pamphlets on the campaign to customers at coffee-shops and grocery shops and put up anti-Ecstasy posters. [continues 124 words]
IPOH: The MCA is prepared to assist repentant Ecstasy pushers get new jobs, Perak Youth chief Ho Cheng Wang said yesterday. The party had identified several Ecstasy pushers after receiving tip-offs from the public, he said, adding that he had received three tip-offs from grassroots members in two days and managed to trace two pushers. "I had a talk with them and one admitted he sold Ecstasy pills,'' he said. Ho said the man, in his 20s, said he started selling Ecstasy pills after his friend introduced him to a supplier in Taiping early this year. [continues 229 words]
