Compiled by JAROD LIM, KHOO JIAN TENG and R. ARAVINTHAN
A STUDENT from SMK Methodist (ACS) Sitiawan made history by winning a national level inter-school chess competition, Malaysia Nanban reported.
Tharvin Shanmugam, 16, won the under-18 category at the MSSM Chess Championship 2026 held in Miri, Sarawak, earlier this month.
He also became the first male chess player from Perak to win this competition.
Tharvin has also made Malaysia proud on the regional and international stages.
He was placed third in a competition for Asian schools held in Mongolia and won fourth place in an Asian level tournament in Sri Lanka.
> A young woman in India is apparently on the run after allegedly killing her parents and younger sister after they confronted her over her live-in boyfriend, Makkal Osai reported.
Residents in a residential area in Hyderabad were alarmed when a bleeding man ran out of an apartment seeking help. Neighbours later found two women inside the unit, unconscious and suffering from stab wounds.
Police identified the victims as Somasundar, 52, his wife Muthuletchumi, 48, and their younger daughter Supriya, 19, who later succumbed to their injuries.
Investigators said the attack took place in the apartment owned by the couple’s elder daughter, Swetha, who lived there with her boyfriend. Both have since gone missing.
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.
