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by Kong See Hoh

Press Digest newsdesk@thesundaily.com
A breakaway

Assailant did not act alone: Yap

DONG ZONG (United Chinese School Committees
Association) president Dr Yap Sin Tian is at a loss as
lieves the assailant did not act of his own accord and
that there is an agenda behind the assault.
Yap told China Press on Monday through Dong Zong
deputy president Zhou Sou Han, that he had had no
Chinese
federation?
FOLLOWING the withdrawal of the
Negri Sembilan (NS) Chinese Chamber
of Commerce and Industry and Hok-
to the motive of the man who punched him at the He said he could not wait to determine the clashes with students of the college in the past and was at kien Association from the NS Chinese
New Era College convocation on Sunday. grudge the assailant held against him that had led a loss over the reasons for the “well-planned assault” that Assembly Hall recently, there has been
Yap, who is the college’s senate chairman, be- him to resort to violence. left him with a bloodied nose and fractured cheekbone. talk that several Chinese groups are
He said he believed the incident was not as simple proposing the establishment of an NS
as it appeared. “We suspect that the assailant was not federation of Chinese associations.
acting alone, the case is not that simple,” Yap said from According to a report in Nanyang
KEEN
EN TO BECOME A UTM GRADUAT
GRADUATE? his hospital bed after studying the incident with Zhou.
Yap was delivering his address on Sunday when he
Siang Pau yesterday, the groups
were putting out feelers to gauge
was punched by a man. the community’s response, bearing
Kajang OCPD Asst Comm Shakaruddin Che Mood in mind that the proposed federation
said police were investigating the incident from various might face strong objections from the
angles, but declined to say whether the attack was Chinese Assembly Hall.
linked to a dispute between Yap and the college’s Early this month, the Hokkien
former principal Dr Kua Kia Soong. Association pulled out of the hall, cit-
Yap is said to have supported a decision not to ing the failure of the latter to resolve
extend Kua’s contract which expired last month. a dispute between its former youth
Kua has condemned the attack and urged all quarters chief and 11 executive committee
to refrain from speculations pending investigations. members of the association some
eight years ago.
Ex-student held over attack A week later, the chamber also
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KUALA LUMPUR: Police have arrested a former New
Era College student over the attack on the college’s
withdrew from the hall, citing organi-
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Kajang OCPD Asst Comm Shakaruddin Che Mood each other caused ripples in the state’s
said police picked up the suspect, aged 22, in Kajang Chinese community as the bodies are
yesterday afternoon. representative of a large section of the
He said the case is being investigated under Sec- Chinese populace, prompting some
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