Compiled by LIEW JIA XIAN, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN

       SJK (T) Ladang Bukit Benut, which is squatting in a national school building, will get its own compound and building, Makkal Osai reported. The school in Kluang, Johor, which is said to be around 100 years old, has only 18 pupils, partly due to not having its own building.

       Kluang MIC chairman Raman Govindan said the school has been promised 2.4ha of land through the efforts of former state exco member Datuk M. Asojan.

       Recently, a team of officials including Kluang district officer Jamaludin A. Hamid, deputy district education officer Zainudin Kasim, Raman, Kluang councillor R. Susila Ganapathi, headmistress Amutha, and the chairmen of the school board and parent-teacher association, visited three potential sites for the school. The team selected the one in Taman Sri Impian, Jalan Kota Tinggi, as the most suitable.

       Susila said there are 11 residential areas near Taman Sri Impian and the Malaysian-Indian families there are willing to send their children to the school once the new building is completed.

       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.