10-07-2025
Residents in 10 Perak villages facing water woes
AT times, they have to wait up to five hours to fill up a water tank at home.
Utusan Malaysia highlighted the woes of residents from 10 villages in Alor Pongsu, Perak, who have been putting up with low water pressure in their homes for the past three years.
One of the villagers, Asman Hariza Mohamad, 38, said their daily life had been disrupted as they faced problems carrying out activities like washing, cooking, and bathing.
'It's getting dire as most of us have to wait for long hours to fill up the water tank. This is especially so during peak hours such as in the morning or Maghrib time,' said Asman.
'During festive seasons and school holidays, we would have to turn on the tap at dusk. The water tank will be full only after midnight,' he added.
> Singer Shila Amzah has revealed that she turned down a RM6mil offer to be the product ambassador of a shampoo brand as it required her to remove her hijab, Utusan Malaysia reported.
'They wanted to give me 10 million yuan, equivalent to RM6mil, on the condition that I remove my hijab,' she said, recounting the offer that was made to her several years ago in China.
Shila, 34, had made a name for herself in China after finishing third in a singing competition there in 2014.
> Despite suffering a tonsil infection which nearly required surgery when he was 18, Kudien Rafee has succeeded as a singer today, Harian Metro reported.
The constant medical attention at that time had saved his voice box.
Kudien Rafee, who is 30 now, had taken part in various singing contests.
Although there were many rounds of early elimination in the competitions and he came close to giving up – the support from his family led him to win the grand finale in the rock category of the reality show, 3 Juara in 2017.
These days, he is busy staging performances for corporate dinners, among others.
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.
