Student goes for 16-hour walk to raise cancer awareness


PETALING JAYA: Secondary student Melvin Tan Eng Chuan has not showered for 16 hours and only slept for three hours but he does not mind.

He was one of the over 5,000 people who took turns to walk around Dataran Petaling Jaya continuously for 16 hours in the Relay for Life (RFL) Malaysia 2013 in Kuala Lumpur to symbolise that “cancer never sleeps”.

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