Compiled by AUSTIN CAMOENS, JAROD LIM and R. ARAVINTHA
A THREE-and-a-half-year-old girl from Batu Caves has earned a place in the Malaysian Book of Records by identifying 44 flags in one minute, Malaysia Nanban reported.
The girl’s parents, Vasagam and Mathivathani, said they have been teaching their daughter Jeymithra about the flags of the countries in the world for the past year before bedtime. She managed to memorise most of the flags within a few months, the proud parents said.
Jeymithra, who is also one of the youngest piano players in Malaysia, had already etched her name in the Jackhi Book of World Records and Indian Book of Records.She is now keen to get herself into the Asian Book of Records and Guinness World Book of Records, her parents said.
> Seventy-five laptops were distributed to SJK (T) Kajang by the Malaysian Indian Community Transformation Unit (Mitra), who has been working with Google as part of its tech drive to equip Tamil schools in the country, Makkal Osai reported.
Sungai Buloh MP and Mitra chairman Datuk Ramanan Ramakrishnan said 6,000 laptops have been earmarked for the 527 Tamil schools in the country.
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.
