MCA Secretary-General Datuk Chong Sin Woon learnt about working with Malaysians from diverse and different backgrounds at UKM. Photo: Filepic
The day he got his acceptance letter to study economics at UKM ranks as one of Datuk Chong Sin Woon's happiest ones. "It meant so much as I was the only one among my seven siblings who made it to a public university," recalled the MCA Secretary-General.
His siblings couldn't go to university then as their family was poor. As their finances later improved, Chong's sister also furthered her studies in New Zealand. But Chong had already been impressed by the performance of a multiracial UKM cultural troupe when he was in Form Six.
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