KUALA LUMPUR: He failed his SPM and joined the army as a recruit in 1972.
Thirty-one years later, Mejar Dr Syed Othman Syed Omar, 50, received a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from Universiti Malaya at its convocation yesterday.
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