{"id":321479,"date":"2026-02-28T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321479\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:10:11","slug":"rm2000-monthly-pension-for-veteran-artiste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321479\/","title":{"rendered":"RM2,000 monthly pension for veteran artiste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compiled by FAZLEENA AZIZ, TAN SIN CHOW and R. ARAVINTHAN<\/p>\n<p>A TAMIL music veteran artiste will receive RM2,000 monthly pension, thanks to the efforts and contributions of local artistes and community leaders, Makkal Osai reported.<\/p>\n<p>Iconic RTM announcer and award-winning newsreader V. Arumugam started the initiative to provide a monthly pension for renowned artiste N. Mariappan, 93, to ensure he is able to cover expenses in his old age.<\/p>\n<p>The effort has received support from retired RTM personnel and other well-wishers who helped raise the money for the pension fund.<\/p>\n<p>The fund was handed over to Mariappan by National Land Finance Cooperative Society (NLFCS) managing director Datuk B. Sahadevan during a get-together at a restaurant in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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 &gt;, it denotes a separate news item.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Compiled by FAZLEENA AZIZ, TAN SIN CHOW and R. ARAVINTHAN A TAMIL music veteran artiste will receive RM2,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[149499,72,149501,176,129234,61,60,149500,149502,278,149503,129235,1612,174,175,112236,50711,64107],"class_list":["post-321479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-artiste","tag-business","tag-community-leaders","tag-finance","tag-found-in-translation","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-local-artistes","tag-makkal-osai","tag-music","tag-n-mariappan","tag-other-news-and-views","tag-pension","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-rtm","tag-tamil","tag-veteran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}