Malaysia Day bundle of joy

Proud parents: Wee (right) and Pan with their baby girl after delivery at Columbia Asia Hospital.

JOHOR BARU: A ex-army officer hopes his newborn great grand-daughter will one-day become a sri kandi (respected female figure) as she was born on Malaysia Day.

Former first warrant officer Abu Bakar Hamzah, 79, was over the moon when his granddaughter Siti Hawa Saadah Hamid gave birth to a baby girl on a day of national significance.