Compiled by BENJAMIN LEE, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
THIS year saw the highest number of Chinese youths applying to become teachers, according to an education group in the Klang Valley, Sin Chew Daily reported.
Sources from the Education Ministry revealed that the number of Chinese secondary school leavers applying for the Bachelor of Education (PISMP) programme reached a record high this year, said Chua Kim Boon, who is the president of Dong Zong’s Selangor and Kuala Lumpur chapters.
Chua, who was chairing his chapter’s 2023 annual general meeting, said he hoped this would help fill up all the available spots in the PISMP programme this year and address the perennial shortage of teachers in the long run.
In May this year, Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek was reported to have said that there were around 18,000 vacant teaching positions in the country.
Dong Zong, also known as the United Chinese School Committees’ Association, was established to promote and develop Chinese education in Malaysia.
It also serves to facilitate cooperation between school boards and teachers across Chinese schools in the country.
> A woman in Shanghai, China, threw a tantrum in public and attacked an ehailing driver for refusing to have sex with her, Oriental Daily reported.
The woman asked an ehailing driver to sleep with her as an act of revenge against her boyfriend who had cheated on her.
The driver calmly explained that he was married and politely rejected her advances.
However, this enraged her, which caused her to go into a public meltdown.
Video footage of the incident showed a woman wearing a black T-shirt repeatedly punching a car window.
Other ehailing drivers tried to stop her by pulling her away.
Rather than calming down, the woman got even angrier and punched and slapped the driver who rejected her.
The driver reported the matter to the police.
After the video went viral online, many Internet users praised the driver for maintaining his integrity by not taking advantage of an emotionally vulnerable woman.
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.
