Cuban adventure

SAMUEL Raj Vasudayan paid about RM2,000 to apply for a Cuban medical scholarship. He considers the time and effort spent well worth it as he is one of the five successful Malaysian applicants.

“It was quite a tedious process as everything had to be translated into Spanish, by a translator recognised by Wisma Putra,” he says. “The forms had to be translated from Bahasa Malaysia to English first, then Spanish. Each translated document had to be stamped and certified and this cost money too.”