More learning French in schools


One for the album as Teo (sixth right) poses with the ambassadors during the launch of the Francophonie Buffet.

THE number of Malaysian school students learning French has tripled over the last decade.

Deputy Education Minister Teo Nie Ching said there are now about 15,000 students learning the language in 101 government secondary schools.

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