Compiled by BENJAMIN LEE, BEH YUEN HUI and R. ARAVINTHAN
A DELEGATION from the Johor Tamil Educators Social Development Association took part in the 4th Diaspora Tamil Education Conference (DTEC 2026) in Tamil Nadu, Malaysia Nanban reported.
The event held at the Anna Centenary Library in Chennai brought together Tamil educators from around the world.
The Johor delegation, led by president Nadarajah C. Kalimuthu, also visited the Kalaignar centenary library in Madurai, where he presented a book by teacher Suravi titled Johor Theen Thamizh Ilakkana Nool (Grammar book for students) to the library’s director-general.
> The daily also reported on a boy in Tamil Nadu who climbed onto a 30-foot-high roof to avoid going to school and had to be rescued by firemen.
The 12-year-old boy had begged his parents to let him stay home, but they refused.
The boy then took off running and climbed onto the roof of the house and refused to come down.
After two hours of pleading, his parents called in the firemen who managed to talk the boy into coming down.(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.)
