PETALING JAYA: The United States has sent over 100 volunteers to teach English here since 2012, the result of a chance conversation between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and President Barack Obama.
US Ambassador Datuk Paul W. Jones, in a talk organised by the Malaysian Institute of Management, related the story on how the idea was first mooted when the two leaders met at the October 2010 United Nations general assembly.
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