Community fights to save school field under threat


Compiled by FAZLEENA AZIZ, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN

THE Indian community in Rawang is up in arms over the decision to build a new building on the field of a Tamil school, Malaysia Nanban reported.

SJK (T) Rawang’s former school board chairman Datuk Suresh Rao said the Education Ministry wants to build the new classroom building on the school playground.

The school board, management, parents of pupils and local community are urging for the two old school buildings to be remo­ved and for the new six-classroom building to be situated there instead. This will help preserve the school field, they said.

 

> A man in Tamil Nadu, India, ran over his own father with his lorry because the latter refused to give money to build a house, Makkal Osai reported.

Munussamy, 25, from Kanchi­puram recently got married and was living in a rented house separate from the family. Wanting to build his own house, he began harassing his father, Satya, to give him a piece of land or money.

When Satya didn’t budge, the angry Munussamy got into his mini lorry and ran over his father.

Satya was rushed to the hospital but eventually died.

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.

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