When the bell rang to signal the start of a new school day yesterday, the first for many school-goers following months of lockdown, it wasn’t just students who had excitedly adorned their school uniforms.

National broadcasting station RTM also joined in the back-to-school cheer. In a 'cute' gimmick, its news and Selamat Pagi Malaysia team showed up for work yesterday, on-air, garbed in the light blue, white, black, or dark green of the national secondary school uniforms.

They included newscasters, journalists, and crew. At least one of its reporters, Siti Farah Nadia Fadzlon, went to the ground at a tahfiz school in Shah Alam, in uniform, for her coverage of...