Perak teacher wins Canada contest award

Compiled by C. ARUNO,HEMANANTHANI SIVANANDAM and R. ARAVINTHAN

A TEACHER from a Tamil school in Pengkalan Hulu, Perak, has won a special award for her essay at the International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada, Makkal Osai reported.

She submitted an essay on innovation, written in collaboration with her father, who is also a school teacher. They won a special committee award and a commendation certificate.

> Seven councillors being sworn in to the Klang Municipal Council took their oaths by reciting excerpts from a volume of Tamil hymns written by a ninth century poet, the same daily reported.

The set of hymns is considered among the most important literary works in Tamil.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.