Deepavali bazaars to favour local traders


JOHOR will limit the number of traders from other states in Deepavali bazaars in future, Malaysia Nanban reported.

Mentri Besar Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi announced this during the launch of the 2025 Deepavali Bazaar in Little India Johor Baru.

He said bazaars should benefit local Indian traders and that the state government will implement the measure from next year.

Onn Hafiz said the state government planned to develop a 3km stretch centred around the Sultan Iskandar Building to take advantage of the RTS Link which is expected to bring in more tourists.

Little India will be an important part of this, he added.

> A woman in Tamil Nadu, India, who drowned and killed her newborn in a hospital toilet is being sought by police, Makkal Osai reported.

A doctor in the medical college hospital who went to the toilet at the maternity ward was shocked to find a male infant dead on the floor of a cubicle, with his umbilical cord was still intact.

Hospital authorities reported the matter to the police and an autopsy found that the baby boy was just hours old when he was killed.

  The above article is 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 this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.

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