Traumatised Orang Asli student refuses to attend SK Tohoi

 

- Traumatised Orang Asli student refuses to attend SK Tohoi

Ten-year-old Noreen Yaakob cannot wait to resume her studies but she will not return to SK Tohoi where her traumatic life experience is still fresh in memory.

Noreen is one of the two survivors from a group of seven Orang Asli students who went missing for 48 days in August this year.

The girl has insisted that she wants to be transferred to SK Kuala Betis although the school is a distance away from her house in Kampung Penad.

"I want to study in SK Kuala Betis because the old school is still haunting me," she told the Malay tabloid.

Her mother, Midah Angah, 40, shared that since that incident, Noreen often cried while sleeping and kept to herself at home.

Kelantan state education department's head of special education and private education sector, Abdul Hamid Dollah, said Noreen's parents must submit a transfer request form and approval could be issued at the district office.

 

 

- 250 MAS pilots bracing to lose jobs

It was reported that 250 Malaysia Airlines pilots of Boeing 777-200ER would soon lose their jobs as the company terminates flight routes to Amsterdam and Paris staring Jan 27 next year.

An unnamed source revealed to the Malay tabloid that some of the pilots were already being offered a two-year leave without pay while 40 of them had resigned to work for other airlines.

It is understood that MAS will be dropping the two destinations next year after it signed a codesharing deal with Emirates on Dec 2.

The source also lamented that the latest move would be a loss to the carrier because some of the pilots have over 20 years of experience.