Selangor teen brings green passion to Taiwan


Achievement unlocked: Chen posing for a photo at the Aowanda National Forest Recreation Area.

GOING on a trip overseas to intern at a nature park is not what most Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) school-leavers would think of doing after their exams.

For Chen Xin Ying, however, that was the ideal post-SPM experience she had been eyeing since her discovery in April that the Taiwan-based Global Environment Education Partnership Asia-Pacific Regional Center (GEEP APRC) was organising its inaugural International Internship Programme.

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