Compiled by JUNAID IBRAHIM, ALLISON LAI and R. ARAVINTHAN
THE Education Ministry has been urged to open SJK(T) Ladang Regent in Negri Sembilan after parents expressed their unhappiness, Malaysia Nanban reported.
The school building was completed in 2017 but the access road was only completed in 2018 after the new state government obtained RM500,000 in funding from the Federal Government, said state executive councillor and Nilai assemblyman Arul Kumar Jambunathan after visiting the Tampin school.
He claimed that despite the school having obtained the relevant occupancy certificates and the matter being highlighted to the ministry, it has remained closed.
On Tuesday, parents had demonstrated in front of the school to ask the education authorities to resolve the matter.
They were promised that the school would begin operating in March 2022, but it was now home to rats and bats, they claimed.
They also urged the ministry to review the status of three other Tamil schools in Rantau, Jelebu and Bahau.
> The daily also reported that an Indian teenager who was born blind in one eye and partially blind in the other, scored 5As and 4Bs in the recent SPM exams.
Danesh Gobinath, a student of Maktab Sultan Abu Bakar in Johor Baru, achieved the results despite the challenges faced due to his birth defect.
His mother Vanitha Kumari, a teacher at SJK(T) Taman Tun Aminah where Danesh previously studied, said she and her husband Gobinath Kanniappan tried their best to motivate Danesh whenever he felt discouraged.
The proud parents were also thankful for the efforts of the teachers at both the Tamil school and his secondary school.
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.
