IPOH: Orang Asli at villages that are under the enhanced movement control order (MCO) in Bidor will be receiving more food aid starting Thursday (Aug 17).
TAPAH (Bernama): To date, a total of 784 Orang Asli residents in Mukim Bidor, who are under the enhanced movement control order, have tested positive for Covid-19, and eight have succumbed to the virus.
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TANJUNG MALIM: Pupils in rural areas with weak Internet connectivity will not be left behind as they will get physical notes and homework from their teachers.
Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon said teachers, whose pupils lived in rural areas with poor Internet connection, could pass the notes and homework to the respective village chiefs or tok batin to be distributed to the children.
“It is part of blended learning where it combines online and offline.
“A teacher may leave these notes and homework at a designated location for the village chief to pick up, ” he told reporters after presenting rations to the Orang Asli community at Kampung Chang in Bidor.