a sjgn tables have turned for lynas

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By Ong Han Sean
The Star/Asia News Network
Sunday, May 26, 2013
KUANTAN - A 72-year-old grandmother, popularly known as Aunty Mei, has called off her month-long hunger strike to protest against the Lynas rare earth refinery.

Well-wishers gave Tuw Ah Mei, a grandmother of 10, a plate of mee goreng at about 10.30am at the municipal council field here.

A crowd of about 100 people had gathered at the field to lend their support and to join her in the protest.

"I started eating again as I said I would if the public shows up to support my cause," she told reporters after taking her first meal on Sunday.

She claimed to have only drank water since starting her no-food protest at her home in Jalan Wong Ah Jang here on April 26.

It was reported last week that Auntie Mei had petitioned to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to pressure the Federal and Pahang state governments to shut down Lynas immediately.

It is learnt that none of her family members were among those who gathered to support her cause.