‘You coming back or working overseas, ah?’

Coming back home? The writer says that when overseas students see improvements in the country and reduced polarisation, it makes them willing to return and give back to the motherland. — 123rf.com

I WAS surprised to read that brain drain has returned as a hot conversation topic in Malaysia.

While attending the 78th United Nations General Assembly in September in New York City, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had a dinner event with the Malaysian diaspora in the United States, at which he said the government is looking into ways to attract skilled Malaysians to return.