THE Khoo Kongsi has been giving out financial aid for the past 75 years but it was only in the 1970s that women were eligible.
“The initial practice to provide education aid only to males dates back to our ancestral days when only the paternal side was recognised because when the women got married, they would adopt their husbands' surnames.
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