Compiled by BENJAMIN LEE, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
AN assistant manager of a bank in Tamil Nadu, India, was arrested after she hired assassins to kill her superior who had complained of her poor work performance, Malaysia Nanban reported.
Also nabbed were the suspect’s uncle and three other men.
Police investigations revealed that the 32-year-old suspect was apparently upset after receiving criticisms from her senior manager, identified as Gopinath, 39.
She was said to have messed up the tasks assigned to her under a performance improvement exercise.
Police say the suspect’s uncle had apparently hired three men to murder Gopinath.
The manager was stabbed repeatedly in an attack but survived and is being treated in a hospital here.
> Fifty Malaysian-Indian artistes came together to present a six-hour musical extravaganza in Kuala Lumpur, Makkal Osai reported.
The event, organised by the Johor-based RPA Creations, featured young and upcoming musicians and veteran artistes.
RPA founder PM Ravi said the show, themed Natchatira Sangamam (Confluence of Stars), was a dream come true for him.
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.
