Malaysia returns to English

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Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad is emphasizing the importance of English in the national curriculum and encouraging the education system's liberalization. He has called knowledge of English vital to international trade, growth, and development, and hopes to attract branches of prestigious overseas universities to Malaysian soil. That is a natural outgrowth of the twinning system implemented in the mid-1980s, and would both enhance the nation's prestige and save it valuable foreign exchange.

Education and state, Education policy, Language and languages

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Forging Malaysia's indentity

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Malaysia hopes to forge a national identity among its ethnically diverse population. Foreign minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is proud that despite a population 60% Malay, 30% Chinese, and with many Indians, and with Islam as its official religion, Malayans live together in peace and harmony. The minister believes that identifying as Malaysians rather than with ethnic origins is key to maintaining that harmony and that industrial growth will bring the pride and prosperity that will forward that goal.

Demographic aspects, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Ethnic groups, Badawi, Abdullah Ahmad

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Malaysia at peace with itself

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Malaysian society is content with socio-economic differences between Malay and Chinese populations after many years of argument. Malay people are receiving help to improve their standard of living as part of a thirty-year economic plan to achieve prosperity for all. Political leader Mahathir Mohamad's Vision 2020 policy aims to provide 400% standard of living growth.

Economic Programs, Administration of Economic Programs, Economic policy, Mahathir Mohamad

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