Compiled by FATIMAH ZAINAL, LIEW JIA XIAN and R.ARAVINTHAN

TROUBLED teenage girls in George Town are being exploited to serve men at wild parties by women known as mami, reported Harian Metro.

The girls, who include teenage mothers from poor families and school dropouts, were paid by the mami (female pimp) to use drugs and have sex with men at the parties.

One of them, named Yuni, 19, was forced to take up the job as she had to support her family and child after her divorce, the report stated.

Yuni, whose father and brother are drug addicts, got pregnant at the age of 15 and was forced to marry her boyfriend but their union did not last.

She worked as a supermarket cashier but did not earn enough. She was later introduced to a mami.

“She praised my beauty and influenced me to become a wild party girl. Seeing how easy the job is, I agreed to work part-time for her,” said Yuni.

> The number of couples – including married men – from Kedah getting hitched in Thailand without permission increased to 799 last year, from 566 in 2017, reported Kosmo!

Reasons include not getting their families’ blessings or the court’s permission for polygamy, wanting to keep the marriage secret from the first wife, and high dowries.

According to Kedah Religious Committee chairman Datuk Dr Ismail Salleh, there were 502 cases of marriage without permission and 297 polygamy cases without permission last year.

He said in 2017, there were 406 cases of marriage without permission and 160 cases of polygamy without permission.

“The offence of getting solemnised in Thailand is categorised into marriage without permission from family, and polygamy without permission under the Islamic Family Law (Kedah) Enactment 2008,” he said.

He believed that many couples in Kedah who married in Thailand had not registered their union at the state religious department.

Those who did so would be fined by the Syariah Court judge according to the offences committed, he said.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.