Anwar Ibrahim has been elected as the Man of the Year by internationally well known lifestyle magazine PASSIONS. In the interview with him, he had mentioned several key issues faced by the country during these years. Besides political issues, he did mention about the educational issues like the dropping English profieciency level among young Malaysians as well as the falling standard of local public varsities. He said in adamant that we should not overly emphasised the national language at the expense of English which is the lingua franca of international trade.Otherwise, Malaysia would lose out in economic and human capital development in which some countries like Singapore and South Korea had done far better than us.
11 September 2008
Man of the Year
Anwar Ibrahim has been elected as the Man of the Year by internationally well known lifestyle magazine PASSIONS. In the interview with him, he had mentioned several key issues faced by the country during these years. Besides political issues, he did mention about the educational issues like the dropping English profieciency level among young Malaysians as well as the falling standard of local public varsities. He said in adamant that we should not overly emphasised the national language at the expense of English which is the lingua franca of international trade.Otherwise, Malaysia would lose out in economic and human capital development in which some countries like Singapore and South Korea had done far better than us.
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