English or Malay ... just read lah

By MALINI DIAS and RON J. BACKUS

The idea is to put more books into more people’s hands. Could Malay translations of English bestsellers help to do that?

TWO local publishing companies are shaking things up with interesting forays into translation. Shakespeare and Stephen King in Malay, anyone?

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