Top honour for grads


SMK Mantin curricular senior assistant Dr Josephine Ong Kui Hua received her PhD in history during the recent Universiti Malaya (UM) convocation.

For her PhD research, she spent more than seven years staying in Vietnam and received the Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Programme grant and a UM grant to complete her thesis on the migration of the Chinese community to southern Vietnam from the 17th to 18th centuries.

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