The Star Employee experience island village life (4 PICS)

Sit-down dinner : The sarong-wearing participants about to have a traditional Malay dinner at the home of a villager.

CLAD in a T-shirt and sarong, graduate trainee Selina Ng, 23, made her way through the traditional wooden houses in Kampung Pulau Perhentian, Terengganu, to have dinner at the house of Kak Ani, one of the villagers who grew up on the island.

BN pays RM137mil to village chiefs in Pakatan states

The federal government forked out RM137 million to pay the Federal Village Security and Development Committees (JKKKP), but not to those in the Pakatan Rakyat-ruled states, says Serdang MP Teo Nie Ching.

"They (BN) formed the JKKKP so they can appoint their own people. They have no respect for the powers of the state governments and the wishes of the rakyat.