Compiled by JIA QI CHOK, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN

       A HOMELESS man who has been living at the Seremban bus station has been taken in by the Sri Ragavendra Ashram, Makkal Osai reported.

       Vadivelan Subramanian, 42, who suffers from heart and intestinal problems, has also been fitted with a pacemaker.

       He had been living with his mother after his wife took their four children and left him.

       After the death of his mother three years ago, his siblings refused to help him and he became homeless.

       Vadivelan said the doctors or nurses whom he sees for his medication, or the occasional passer-by, would give him some money for food.

       One of the doctors also helped him register for aid at the welfare department. He receives RM350 monthly.

       He used to get three meals from the Siradi Sai Baba centre but this, too, ceased when the pandemic hit and the centre had to close, he said. He now lives at the ashram.

       Negri Sembilan Hindu priests association president Sivasri Dr. Ananda Gobi Sivachariyar who runs the Ashram met Vadivelan along with welfare department officials and provided a home for him at the Ashram.

       > Traders and shop owners in Klang’s Little India are happy that customers are making a come back to the area, the same paper reported.

       Sri Rasi Silk Centre owner KS Maniam said businesses are seeing an increase in the number of customers who have completed both vaccine doses, since they reopened with the latest standard operating procedures in place.

       The staff at the Sri Rasi store and other businesses in the vicinity have been fully vaccinated, thus driving customer confidence for safety, said the proprietor.

       The SOPs practised include the use of masks, and hand sanitisers. Businesses are also limiting the number of customers at any one time in the stores for everyone’s safety, added Maniam.

       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.