Compiled by BEH YUEN HUI,ELISHA MARY EASTER and R.ARAVINTHAN

       NO primary schools would be closed due to low number of students, Deputy Education Minister Wong Kah Woh assured in a Malaysia Nanban report.

       He also said funds would continue pouring in for these schools, adding that the government provides RM38,000 for the development of a school without looking at the student number.

       “There are 3,038 schools with fewer than 150 students. Perak alone has 419 schools,” he said during a visit to SJKT Ladang Sungai Samak in Ulu Bernam, Perak.

       > The daily also reported that a non-governmental organisation was helping a foreign worker return to his home in Tamil Nadu, India.

       The 46-year-old former restaurant helper had been living on the streets of Kuala Lumpur and survived on food given by Good Samaritans after leaving his previous employment.

       Ulaga Manitha Neya Iyakkam president T. Kamalanathan claimed that the man, who came to Malaysia in May last year, was made to work 12 hours a day for six consecutive months.

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       “He fell ill and asked to be let go but the employer refused,” he said.

       ● 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.