Vernacular school pupils can appeal to skip remove class

PUPILS from vernacular schools who failed in the UPSR Bahasa Melayu papers can appeal to their schools to skip remove class, Sin Chew Daily reported.

They can use their Year Four to Year Six BM results showing that they passed the subject, when submitting the appeal.

According to the Education Ministry website, the primary schools must set up a committee headed by headmasters to look into the appeals filed by the pupils before submitting the list to the ministry, which will make the final decision.

For pupils to go directly to Form One, they have to obtain a minimum C grade for their UPSR BM papers.

The remove class is aimed to improve BM competency of pupils before being allowed into Form One.

> Guang Ming Daily reported an eight-year-old slipped and got his left leg stuck in a squatting toilet bowl at his house in Kamunting, Perak.

His mother called the Kamunting fire station for help during the freak incident on Wednesday.

Firemen managed to free his leg by breaking the toilet bowl.

The boy suffered minor injuries.

> Oriental Daily reported that Taiwanese sweetheart Michelle Chen is expecting a baby girl.

The 32-year-old actress, who is seven months’ pregnant, was spotted buying baby clothes in Taipei.

Chen, who married 28-year-old Chinese actor Chen Xiao in July, has taken a break from show business after making public that she was pregnant, during her wedding ceremony in Beijing.