Taib: English vital if we want to play bigger role


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 05 Oct 2004

KUCHING: Using English to communicate ideas will not undermine the status of the national language, Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said. 

''This was because Malaysians educated primarily in English would find it easier to absorb ideas in the language in which they acquired their knowledge, he said at the final of the second English debating competition for Sarawak’s institutions of higher learning at the RTM Auditorium here yesterday. 

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