KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 — The police uncovered a human smuggling syndicate operation using a homestay as a transit location after raiding an apartment unit in Setapak and detaining 12 foreign nationals.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 9 — The police rescued 16 people, including teenagers, believed to be victims of forced labour during a series of raids across the Klang Valley yesterday by Bukit Aman’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants (ATIPSOM) unit under Op Pintas Mega.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 — Fifteen Indonesian nationals suspected of smuggling their compatriots into Malaysia over the past two months were arrested during Op Pintas Som in Sungai Buloh, at midnight yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15 — The police have arrested a woman and two Indonesian men suspected of being involved in human trafficking activities after raiding a transit house in Bandar Mahkota Cheras yesterday night.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 23 — The police crippled a Myanmar-operated syndicate in the smuggling of illegal immigrants to Klang Valley with raids on four apartments in Cheras and Kajang yesterday, with the arrest of 29 Myanmar nationals, including five men believed to be acting as agents.

KUALA LUMPUR July 31 — The police rescued three foreign domestic helpers who had allegedly not been paid for the past six months during a raid in Teluk Panglima Garang, Kuala Langat, yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 16 — Police rescued 17 Indonesian women who were who were suspected human trafficking victims during a raid on a maid service company’s dormitory in Shah Alam on Friday (June 14).

KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 — Police detained 17 illegal immigrants and rescued two teenagers, believed to be victims of exploited labour, at a electrical components processing factory in Teluk Panglima Garang, Kuala Langat.

GEORGE TOWN, June 10 — A motorcyclist was killed while three other victims were injured in an accident involving two cars and three motorcycles caused by a falling tree on the Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway, early this morning.

GEORGE TOWN, Oct 26 — Penang police busted an international drug trafficking syndicate with the arrest of two local fishermen and seizure of ganja (cannabis) weighing 573 kg worth RM1.43 million in two raids in Tanjung Bungah on Saturday (October 22).

GEORGE TOWN, Oct 17 — Police arrested 22 individuals, including six teenagers and a schoolgirl, at a wild party in a raid on a three-storey bungalow in Batu Ferringhi, near here last Thursday.

GEORGE TOWN, April 11 — A woman who was found dead on the roof of a Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) electric switch panel room at Bukit Awana condominium, Air Itam, here, was allegedly pushed out of the living room window of her 18th floor home by her husband.