Heartfelt essays get awards


Top winners: Lau (left) and Ong showing their prestigious award certs.

KUCHING: Writing about the experience of staying connected during the Covid-19 pandemic earned secondary school students Christabel Lau and Ong Rui Yu gold awards in the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition this year.

Their achievement exceeded expectations as gold awards were given to fewer than 1% of over 25,000 entries from Commonwealth countries this year, besides the winner and runner-up in both senior and junior categories.

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