Provide Tamil option for customers, Malay banks urgedSeptember 28th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Appeals by Malay Indian customers to banks to give due recognition to the Tamil language have fallen on deaf ears. According to an editorial in the Malaysia Nanban, Indian customers, proficient only in Tamil, are having problems dealing with banks, it said.
Coimbatore to host World Tamil Conference in 2010September 26th, 2009 CHENNAI - India will host the ninth World Tamil Conference early next year in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has said.
Malay minister backs adding Tamil language in ATMsAugust 27th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam has said he would to ensure that the Tamil language is included in ATMs.
'National co-ordinator should be appointed for Tamil schools in Malaysia'July 14th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - In a bid to monitor the standard of teaching of the Tamil language in schools across Malaysia, a national co-ordinator for Tamil schools should be appointed, Tamil Youth Bell Club president S. V. Lingam has said.
From math and science to 'matematik' and 'sains': Malaysia schools drop instruction in EnglishJuly 8th, 2009 Malaysia drops English used to teach math, scienceKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia announced Wednesday it will abandon the use of English to teach math and science, bowing to protesters who demanded more use of the national Malay language. Malay will be reinstated in state-funded schools starting in 2012 because teaching in English caused academic results in those subjects to slip, Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said.
Safety, welfare of Sri Lankan Tamils most important: KarunanidhiJuly 1st, 2009 CHENNAI - Safety and proper living conditions are the most important issues for the Tamil community in Sri Lanka at the moment, even if it means a change of stand for parties in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said in the assembly Wednesday.
Tamil mooted as subject for Malaysian Indian studentsJune 21st, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The oldest party of ethnic Indians, the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) has proposed that Tamil language be included as the 11th subject in the country's high school education. Party deputy president S.
Malaysian banks are refusing to accept Tamil written cheques, says MPJune 18th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - An opposition MP has expressed surprise that local banks are still refusing to honour cheques written in Tamil, the Malaysia Nanban reports. Seremban MP John Fernandez, who is from DAP, said on the contrary, cheques written in Malay, English and Chinese languages were accepted by the banks.
China's Xinjiang region promotes Mandarin to fight terrorismJune 5th, 2009 BEIJING - Teaching Mandarin lessons in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is helping the people to fight terrorism, claimed Nur Bekri, chairman of the region. "Terrorists from neighboring countries mainly target Uygurs that are relatively isolated from mainstream society as they cannot speak Mandarin.
Indians living in Malaysia want Tamil announcements at airportsMay 26th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The Tamil Indian community in Malaysia has complained that there is no announcement in Tamil at the international airports around the country. According to a report in The Star Online, the community also complained that the television news readers had failed to promote Indian culture through their dressing and that deejays on radio channels were not fluent in Tamil.
Indians should promote Tamil language, says Malaysian Hindu youth wingMay 1st, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The Malaysian Hindu Youth Organization has said that Indians should promote the Tamil language and ensure it is not tainted by foreign cultures. It also said that only if people are united are not jealous of one another can the nation propser.
Computers will ruin kids' handwriting skills, say UK expertsMay 1st, 2009 LONDON - Plans to introduce computers in England's primary school curriculum will ruin kids' handwriting skills, experts have warned. As per a government report by former chief schools inspector Sir Jim Rose, computers should be used in every lesson.
Facebooking to become Brit kids' homework!April 26th, 2009 LONDON - Worried that your kids are spending most of their time Facebooking instead of doing their homework? Well, then here's the solution. British Government has decided to introduce a radical shake-up in the school curriculum, in which kids will be taught life skills' including how to chat to pals on social networking sites and write blogs.
Malay Indians want maths and science to be taught in TamilMarch 22nd, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The Federation of Malaysian Indian Organisations wants the teaching of science and mathematics to revert to the Tamil language in Tamil schools. It also wants the teaching hours of Bahasa Malaysia and English in Tamil schools to be increased to strengthen pupils' proficiency in the two languages, the New Strait Times reports.
Indian artistes don't get enough chances in Malaysian TV, radio: MinisterJanuary 28th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Opportunities that ethnic Indian artistes get on Malaysia's television and radio network are inadequate, says the deputy minister in the Prime Minister's Department. The minister, T.
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