Wednesday
April 25, 2007
LOCAL men, paid to marry women from China who come here for
prostitution, are now demanding more money from their wives to keep
quiet about the womens illegal activities, Sin Chew Daily and
China Press reported.
Quoting MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk
Michael Chong, the dailies reported yesterday that such men were
now demanding a monthly payment of RM5,000.
The women said their initial agreement with their husbands was to
pay them between RM300 and RM500 monthly to keep quiet, Chong
said.
Unable to bear the pressure of their husbands blackmailing
attempts, a number of them have run away and gone into
hiding.
Chong said such cases came to light after some of the men
approached the department to help locate their missing wives.
Sin Chew Daily quoted Chong as saying that he became suspicious
when some of the husbands who approached him for help did not want
their stories or wedding photographs published in the papers.
The department subsequently discovered that the women just could
not afford to continue paying their husbands.
> Nanyang Siang Pau in its editorial lauded the Governments
offer of RM50 to women as an initiative for them to go for annual
breast examinations.
It said that although the amount was not much, it would help
low-wage earners.
The daily noted that one out of every 19 women in the country would
be diagnosed with breast cancer.
The cure for breast cancer is early detection, it said, adding
that the chances of surviving the disease would be higher.