Compiled by  GERARD GIMINO, BEH YUEN HUI and R. ARAVINTHAN

AFTER 10 years of working in Malaysia, an Indian national has opened a restaurant serving Malaysian meals in Tamil Nadu, India, Harian Metro reported.

The restaurant, named Tomyam Malaysia, began operating in July in the Ramanathapuram district.

The owner, Syed Ibrahim, 37, said the idea came about when his now business partner and himself returned from Malaysia last year.

He began working as a dishwasher in Johor in 2008 and later became a cook in Penang.

“I learned cooking during my time in Malaysia. My restaurant came to be because I really love Malaysian food,” he said.

“Since we began operating, we have had customers coming from districts like Kerala,” he added.

According to him, the most popular dishes are nasi lemak, tomyam, satay, fried rice and fried chicken.

“Satay is our best seller, where we can sell up to 2,000 sticks a day, with one instance where a customer even bought 300 sticks in one order.

“There are times when we have to reject orders as we cannot meet the demand,” he said.

> Despite losing both her legs, a single mother in Ipoh has not given up hope and shifted her focus towards being a part-time singer to support her school-going daughters, Kosmo! reported.

N. Megala, 44, said she lost one of her legs in 2022 following an accident, with the other being amputated a year later due to complications from diabetes.

Prior to this, she provided sewing services.

“I lost my husband 12 years ago in a workplace accident. Both my children also have health conditions, including diabetes,” she said.

Her late husband’s pension of about RM1,200 a month is not enough to support the cost of treatment for her daughters and herself.

She has brushed up on her singing, hoping to be hired as a singer at functions to earn extra income.

(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.)