Divorcebook

FACEBOOK is being blamed for a growing number of marriage splits - as love rats are caught online.

A lawyer told yesterday how EVERY divorce she has dealt with in the past nine months has involved the social networking website. Married partners can be tempted to cheat as they meet other users. But even flirty messages and photos of new lovers after a split are being used by bitter exes as ammunition in divorce proceedings.

Now lawyers are advising warring couples to stop using Facebook and sites such as Second Life, Illicit Encounters and Friends Reunited until legal proceedings are finalised. Emma Patel, of Hart Scales & Hodges Solicitors, in Dorking, Surrey, has dealt with 30 divorces since May - and all involved Facebook. She said: "Suspicious spouses have used it to spy and find evidence of flirting and even affairs, which have then led to break-ups." And she warned against "public slagging matches" on the site. She said: "We advise feuding couples to avoid these sites until their divorces are settled."

Source: thesun 22 Jan 2011

Lovers Quarrel Ends In Tragedy

SANDAKAN: A lovers’ kiss and make up drive ended in tragedy. The young couple had earlier quarreled after having dinner at a seafood restaurant on December 15 and after that they went off separately. Then at around 10pm, the man, 29, called at his fiancee’s house in Taman Sejati to patch things up.

They went for a drive in the man’s 4WD vehicle hoping to resolve their differences. However, several hours later, tragedy struck. Nineteen-year-old Noraziah Masran jumped out of the moving vehicle as they were passing the roundabout at Jalan Airport around 3.15am the next day after telling her fiancé she wanted to get off the vehicle. She fell and knocked her head against the road shoulder.

In a panic, the fiancé rushed Noraziah to the hospital but she succumbed to her injury at about 7am, less than four hours after the incident. The man then lodged a police report and was held briefly to facilitate investigation. Police have classified the incident as sudden death and a post-mortem was conducted yesterday. Sandakan district police chief, ACP Rosli Mohd Isa has confirmed the incident.

NewSabahTimes  19 Dis 2010

Pemimpin masyarakat diminta pantau aktiviti perjudian di kampung

MENUMBOK: Pemimpin masyarakat diminta supaya terus memantau dan mengawasi supaya tidak ada aktiviti perjudian di kampung di bawah jagaan masing-masing kerana ia dikhuatiri akan menular dan menjadi ikut-ikutan kepada generasi muda.

“Jika ada berlaku mereka perlu menegur dan menasihatkan supaya permainan judi itu dihentikan sekalipun ketika majlis keramaian seperti majlis perkahwinan atau malam berjaga-jaga (ketika berlaku kematian),” kata Timbalan Menteri Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan Malaysia Datuk Lajim Hj Ukin.

Beliau berkata demikian semasa Majlis Perjumpaan bersama Pemimpin Masyarakat Daerah Kecil Menumbok yang diadakan di Pejabat Daerah Kecil Menumbok pada Rabu. “Bermain judi sama ada pada majlis-majlis keramaian seperti majlis perkahwinan atau sebagainya termasuk hari-hari biasa bukanlah budaya kita, oleh itu jangan jadikan judi itu sebagai trend untuk dibudayakan kerana kita bimbang ia akan menular kepada generasi muda,” katanya.

Lajim yang juga Ahli Parlimen Beaufort berkata beliau telah menerima laporan daripada berbagai pihak termasuk pemimpin masyarakat dan orang ramai mengenai adanya segelintir pihak menganjurkan aktiviti perjudian seperti pakau dan katam-katam di majlis-majlis perkahwinan atau malam berjaga-jaga.

“Saya juga telah difahamkan bahawa pihak Polis telah melakukan beberapa tangkapan di beberapa tempat termasuk sekitar Pekan Beaufort terutama mereka yang menganjur aktiviti perjudian dan bermain judi,” katanya. Beliau berkata polis juga sentiasa memantau keadaan itu.

Lajim meminta ketua-ketua kampung, JKKK dan juga pemimpin masyarakat hendaklah memberikan nasihat jika melihat depan mata berlakunya aktiviti perjudian sedemikian dan jika nasihat sudah diberikan tetapi tidak juga diendahkan maka hendaklah melaporkan perkara itu kepada Polis.

Majlis perjumpaan itu turut dihadiri Wakil Rakyat Dun Kuala Penyu John Teo Mau Seng, Setiausaha Politik kepada Timbalan Ketua Menteri Isnin Aliasnih yang juga Timbalan Ketua Umno Bahagian, dan Naibnya Datuk Kimjus Duim, Pegawai Daerah Edmund Teo serta Pengerusi Mayang Parlimen Beaufort Hajah Johair Matlani,Ketua-ketua Daerah, ketua kampung pengerusi JKKK dan wakil-wakil Ketua Anak Negeri.

Sumber NewSabahTimes 17 Dis 2010