Compiled by C. ARUNO, JO TIMBUONG and R. ARAVINTHAN

       THE National Union of Heads of Schools has urged the government to speed up vaccination among teachers in Chinese vernacular schools in the peninsula as only 13.58% have received both their jabs so far, reported Sin Chew Daily.

       Its president Lim Bee Khim said a survey by the union found that 2,992 out of a total of 22,224 teachers teaching at SJK(C)s have been fully vaccinated as at June 23, and only 2,136 had received their first dose.

       As for heads of schools, 299 had received both doses and only 115 had received their first one.

       From the survey, Penang has the highest vaccination rate among the teachers with 2,730 (89.93%) out of a total of 3,039 already receiving at least one dose, followed by Perak (84.56%) and Melaka (83.99%).

       Lim said that by publishing the statistics, they hoped to create enough awareness so that the government would prioritise the vaccination of teachers.

       She noted that if teachers were to be allowed to return to teach physically in classrooms, being fully vaccinated would keep students, parents as well as other teaching staff safe.

       Earlier this week, Education Minister Datuk Mohd Radzi Md Jidin said 148,580 (36%) teachers across the country had received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

       > A family in China’s Jilin province ended up with 100 bowls of noodles delivered to their house after their three-year-old added two additional zeroes to their order, reported Sin Chew Daily.

       The incident happened on June 17 when the father was puzzled when the delivery man brought several dozen packets of noodles to their house.

       Thinking that he must have won some sort of prize on his food delivery app, he opened it up only to find that an order of 100 zha jiang mian (noodles with soybean paste) had been made.

       The delivery had cost him a total of 1,350 yuan (RM869).

       When confronted, his three-year-old daughter simply replied: “Daddy let’s eat! I’m hungry!”

       In the end, the family managed to finish eight bowls of noodles, with the rest being distributed to the cleaning staff and old folk living in the same apartment complex.

       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.