Friday February 24, 2012

Not keen on studies? Take up farming instead, youths told

A FARMER in Seberang Jaya, Penang, has called on Indian youth who are not interested in studies to take up farming, reported Tamil Nesan.

Farmer S. Somasundaram, 65, said vegetable farming was profitable and better than working in factories or other jobs.

Having been a farmer for 40 years, he said entry into the field would also offer them the chance to be masters of their own destiny and not depend on anyone for income.

> The Kuala Lumpur City Hall has denied that its enforcement officers were involved in the demolition of a Hindu temple in Taman Seri Segambut on Feb 14, reported Malaysia Nanban.

Its planning division director Dr Ismail Mustaffa said his officers were not present when the Om Sri Muniswarar Temple was demolished.

On Feb 14, plainclothes policemen and the landowner's workers had approached the temple committee to fence up the area around the temple.

> Makkal Osai reported that police said a six-year-old boy in Karnal district in Haryana, North India, was locked up in a dark room by his kindergarten teacher for not doing his homework. He died of trauma one-and-a-half months later.

It was reported that the pupil, Pankaj, died at the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences on Sunday night after being admitted last month.

● 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 this > sign, it denotes a separate news item.

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