Compiled by TEH ATHIRA YUSOF, JAROD LIM and R. ARAVINTHA
A company that publishes schoolbooks has donated numerous new books to 30 Tamil school libraries in order to promote reading among students, as reported by Malaysia Nanban.
The donation event took place at the company’s office in Kuala Lumpur, where teachers representing the 30 schools received free books.
Datuk Dr K. Selvaraju, the founder and managing director of Jaya Bakti publications, stated that his company will continue supplying books to schools in need.
> According to the same publication, in India, a groom who was abandoned by his bride at the altar found another bride present at the wedding hall and proceeded with the wedding ceremony as planned.
The groom, aged 23, and the bride, aged 20, were scheduled to get married on Sunday, but the bride went missing at 3am on that day.
Fortunately, another bride was found among the attending relatives.
The aforementioned articles are compiled from various vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). Consequently, the stories are grouped based on the respective language/medium. If a paragraph starts with >, it signifies a separate news item.
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