Compiled by RAHIMY RAHIM, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
MORE than 730 amateur badminton players took part in a tournament organised by the Perak Indian Badminton Association (Piba), Malaysia Nanban reported.
The 46th edition of the event saw participation from players aged between seven years old and 70 years old.
Piba president N. Loganathan said the Youth and Sports Ministry contributed RM45,000 to support the event.
Perak state assembly deputy speaker Jenny Choy Tsi Jen attended the event as a special guest and officially opened the competition.
> A woman in India who faced severe backlash online after hitting an auto-rickshaw driver with her slippers ended up apologising after getting arrested, Malaysia Nanban reported.
In the incident which took place in Bangalore, the woman apparently hit the driver after he accidentally knocked her vehicle.
After her release, the woman and her husband met with the driver and apologised by prostrating themselves at his feet.
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.
