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Police Refute Claim That Klang Is The Most Unsafe City in Southeast Asia

today5 October 2021

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(Source: Astro Awani & Malay Mail / Social media image: FMT)

Ahh, Klang. The Royal Town of Selangor State. Place of bustling commerce and home to wondrous sights and sounds. And most unsafe city in South East Asia?

Local news coverage was abuzz at a purported article alleging just as much recently, seemingly confirming a widely held presumption of the area – that it is a place where criminal activities happen more than perchance.

JUICE even ran an editorial a few years ago which sought to compile the most dangerous neighbourhoods in the Klang Valley based on crime reports found online, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the piece opened with Klang.

Gang activity? Or a by-product of the environment? (source: mStar)

However, the police have stepped forward to refute the assertion, and call into question the methodology of the website.

“The qualitative and quantitative methods of the survey, as well as the number of respondents also (sic) do not paint a…

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Written by: Ahmad Hamizan


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