ESSAYS written by Year Six pupils of SJK (T) Kampung Pandan have been published in a book, Malaysia Nanban reported.

       The book containing 43 essays and 16 shorter works by the 2021 batch was launched during a ceremony organised by the school’s parent-teacher association.

       The effort was to allow the pupils to showcase their writing talents.

       As the pupils head to Form One, the book will serve as a proud reminder of their talent and achievement, school principal A. Margaret said.

       > The paper also reported that 34 students allegedly committed suicide because they failed an important state exam in India.

       About 600,000 high school students sat for the Grade 10 exams, with more than 200,000 of them reportedly getting poor results.

       ● The above article is 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 this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.