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Eh, cukup lah Rais Yatim

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So, yesterday evening, I saw a Tweet by @staronline about an article on Information, Communications, Culture and Arts Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim’s call for the private sector to use Bahasa Malaysia more widely to “dignify the national language”.
My immediate response, being a *cough* good *cough* Malaysian brought up speaking the national language was: [...]

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The Tun wants your votes on PPSMI

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Oh oh, is there another war between former Prime Minister and current Prime Minister brewing?
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday out up a poll on his blog to gauge public sentiments on the reversing of the PPSMI, which I blogged about a couple of days ago here. I am against the reversal by the way.
The Tun [...]

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Cabinet reverses teaching/learning of science and math in English

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Yup, Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has just announced that PPSMI – the teaching of Maths and Science in English – has been reversed.
We have heard rumours since yesterday that this was going to happen but now it’s official – I just watched the press conference live on TV1.
I didn’t [...]

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If we’re already speaking Bahasa Malaysia, sorry, English …

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I meant to post this earlier but the past few days have just been so busy, with Urbanscapes (which I will blog about soon!), the Standard Chartered KL Marathon and the Michael Jackson Tribute Event (and another one I went earlier tonight at Urbanattic).
This article, a comment piece, was published last Thursday in the NST [...]

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I’m speaking English (or “Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?”)

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Apologies for the long title, but I thought it was quite fun. Or funny.
If you have been keeping up to date with current events (as in today), you would probably already know by now that Deputy Prime Minister (and Education Minister) Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has asked for public feedback on whether English as a [...]

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