Compiled by JUNAID IBRAHIM, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN

       A RM50,000 cash aid to improve the condition of the Tanjung Rambutan cemetery was received from Datuk Seri M. Saravanan with more to follow, Malaysia Nanban reported.

       The Human Resources Minister, who visited the cemetery near Ipoh, pledged to cover the upgrading costs and handed over a cheque for the amount.

       Special officer to the Perak Mentri Besar, Datuk V. Elango, who was also present, said a special task force would be formed to manage the upgrade.

       The task force would begin the preliminary works soon, he said.

       > The daily also reported that a man in Bhopal, India, was forced to carry home his dead daughter after a hospital refused to provide an ambulance.

       Lashman Ahirwar’s four-year-old daughter died at the Chhatarpur district hospital in Madhya Pradesh after falling ill suddenly and receiving treatment there.

       However, when the poor villager asked for an ambulance to transport his deceased daughter back to their village, about 50km away, his request was refused.

       The distraught father was then forced to take a bus back to his village.

       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.