Wednesday November 18, 2009
RM380,000 to help displaced Sri Lankans
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Compiled by RACHEL KAM, NOR ZULIANTIE DZUL-KIFLI and A.RAMAN
THE Government has donated RM380,000 to assist Sri Lankan Tamils who were displaced in the recent war between the military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), reported Tamil Nesan.
It quoted Deputy Foreign Minister A. Kohilan Pillay as saying the money was handed to the Sri Lankan government to assist those living in refugee camps in the country.
Kohilan said besides the donation, Mercy Malaysia had built two temporary hospitals to provide treatment to the displaced people.
He said Malaysia had made similar donations for the affected people in Thailand and Indonesia previously.
> Malaysia Nanban reported on an Air India Express flight between Tiruchi and Singapore making an emergency landing in Chennai after smoke billowed from the tail of the aircraft.
> Other News & Views 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 a sub-heading, it denotes a separate news item.
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