Malaysia: Need Muscle power to acquire licences for Cyber Cafes

The announcement of Klang Municipal Council (MPK) health director Dr Nasruddin Aspan's sudden resignation has caught everyone by surprise. Beranam.com reports Dr Nasruddin, who mostly handled licensing matters, was attacked by a group of men and threatened recently and that led to his resignation.

The rumours are that the attack had something to do with the "issuance, rejection and cancellation" of cyber cafe and video game centre licences. Prior to the incident, Dr Nasruddin had revoked the licences of eight cyber cafes and four video game centres which had breached the licensing regulations.

Days before the attack, there were at least 30 cyber cafe applications awaiting his processing, 60 cyber cafes and 59 video game outlets in Klang.