Compiled by DIVYA THERESA RAVI, CHOW HOW BAN and R. ARAVINTHAN
THE school board and parent- teacher association (PTA) of SJK(T) Ladang Katoyang have appealed for the 104-year-old school to remain at its current location, Malaysia Nanban reported.
Located at Katoyang Estate in Tanjung Malim, Perak, the school has 118 pupils and 13 teachers.
It also serves as a key venue for cultural and social activities.
It was reported last month that part of the estate land had been sold and is slated for development.
The board, PTA and parents recently held a meeting to discuss the issue, stressing that a school with such deep roots in the community should not be sacrificed in the name of development.
> Makkal Osai reported that a woman in India left her two-year-old son at a bus station before running away with her boyfriend.
CCTV footage showed the woman arriving at the bus station in Hyderabad with the child.
She told him to sit in the waiting area before leaving on a motorcycle ridden by a man, later identified as someone she had befriended on social media.
Passers-by who noticed the crying child alerted police, who managed to contact the boy’s father.
(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.)
