Dream or nightmare?

Here's my take on the below 2 happenings. It could be a dream for all the men in Malaysia because he can get away with just RM700 fine for beating his wife. Whereas, it's a nightmare for a woman to be given 6 strokes of the cane and fined RM5,000 for drinking beer. Errr... how about a current minister and his son, frolicking and having a beer held in his hand? The pictures are splashed out in many blog sites.

Anyway, I shall let my esteemed readers decide whether it's a dream or nightmare.

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Malaysia: Beat up your wife for a fine of only RM 700

Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Nathaniel Tan

Bernama: Telecommunications company U Mobile chairman Datuk Rosman Ridzuan, who is the husband of actress Noniswara Baharudin, was fined RM700 by the Magistrate’s Court here Monday after he pleaded guilty to having assaulted his ex-wife, Azura Ibrahim, four years ago.

That’s it?! RM 700 and you can beat your wife as you please?! >

Dude. That ain’t right man.

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Wednesday September 30, 2009

Prisons Dept waiting for order to cane

KAJANG: The Prisons Department is ready to cane Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno for drinking beer in July last year.

Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop said, however, that the punishment could only be executed after the department received the order from the Syariah Court.

“The department has trained officers to carry out the whipping and they are just waiting for the directive to do so,” he told a news conference after a Prisons Management Course certificate presentation here yesterday.

Kartika, 32, of Sungai Siput, Perak, was fined RM5,000 and ordered to be given six strokes of the cane by the Kuantan Syariah High Court on July 20, after she pleaded guilty to consuming beer at the Cherating Bay Lounge, Hotel Legend, Cherating, on July 11. — Bernama

source: http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/9/30/nation/4808205&sec=nation