Cikgu Din's plight answered, gets leave to be with terminally ill wife

The power of social media has come to the rescue of a school teacher in Sarawak, whose pleas for transfer to take care of his terminally ill wife were repeatedly denied by his higher-ups in the Education Ministry.

After his story went viral on X and Facebook, the plight of the teacher, identified as Cikgu Din, finally reached the ears of the ministry's top management and forced the authority into action.

In a statement today, the Education Ministry said...