Read in the FT today, Maybank has teamed up with China Xin Hua news agency to set up a news web site. The website will display Malaysian economic news in Mandarin! what a tremendous change in terms of use of Mandarin in Malaysia.
Money and wealth can really do wonders. Imagine that the Malaysian Chinese NGO has been fighting for decades on their rights to promote and use of Mandarin has been always obstructed by various parties. However, when it is promoted by the biggest bank in Malaysia of course with concurrence of Najib, everything seems to be ok.
According to the news, Malaysia has been selected as one of the 11 QDII (Qualified Domestic Institution Investors) allowing Chinese nationals to invest abroad.
So where is Perkasa, isn't it you are suppose to oppose to this idea.
Well, a mega trend on new lingua franca in world is materialising. for the last two century, English was used as the world language. and for the last 50 years, the whole word is learning Japanese as everybody wish to do business with Japan. Now, its Mandarin's turn. Wonder when will Tamil be used as the world language! Interesting isn't!
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