Azalina: RM240 mil saved by slashing 744 overseas scholarships


KUALA LUMPUR: The Government has said that they saved RM240mil by slashing 744 overseas scholarships in 2016.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Azalina Othman in a parliamentary written reply said as of now there were 7,736 students studying overseas with government funding.

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