Compiled by RAHIMY RAHIM, TAN SIN CHOW AND R.ARAVINTAN
A Form One student in Perak received a new laptop from the Prime Minister to help with his studies, Makkal Osai reported.
The boy, Sanjeevan from Tambun, received the laptop from Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s senior special officer Datuk Suresh Kumar Ramachandran at the constituency service centre.
The student’s mother Nandini said he has been ill since he was two years old and depends on a device to breathe normally.
Suresh Kumar also provided the family with a device to help the boy breathe.
> The Tamil community in Malaysia will not accept efforts to turn the Ponggal celebration into a Hindu religious event, Makkal Osai reported an NGO as saying.
Ponggal, which is celebrated on the first day of the traditional Tamil calendar month of Thai, is also considered the Tamil New Year, rights activist M. Letchmanan said.
However, there is confusion every year with the Hindu calendar’s first month of Chittirai being portrayed as the Tamil new year as well, he said.
(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.)
