ALLISON LAI, MAHADHIR MONIHULDIN and R. ARAVINTHAN
THE long-awaited RM5mil multipurpose hall at SJK(T) Mak Mandin has finally been completed, Makkal Osai reported.
Building committee chairman and lawyer, R. Saravanan said this was the culmination of 12 years of effort by the committee and driven by the school board chairman, Datuk Seri R. Arunasalam and his team.Arunasalam, who visited the new hall along with Senator Dr A. Lingeswaran, said the facility would be officiated on Sunday.
School headmaster, N. S. Gunasekaran said the hall has the capacity to seat a thousand people and is fully air-conditioned.
It will host student activities and be made available for rental by the public too.
Gunasekaran added that the school was grateful to the state government, political and business leaders and the public for their donations and assistance.
> A wedding in India turned into a brawl between two families when one side complained that the ‘paayaasam’ was no good, Malaysia Nanban reported.
The groom’s side, which hosted the wedding, had served sweet Indian dessert as part of the wedding dinner, but the bride’s relatives complained that it was terrible.
The bride’s relatives scolded the groom’s family with vulgar words over the paayaasam and they retaliated by dumping a pail of ‘saambar’ on them.
This led to an all-out brawl and the police had to be called in to bring the situation under control.
Eventually, both sides were placated by the police before leaving the place.
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.
