NS to be fully voluntary

By MARTIN CARVALHO, YUEN MEIKENG, LOSHANA K SHAGAR, RAHMAH GHAZALI and DINA MURAD

NATIONAL Service training will become a fully voluntary exercise by 2019.

Deputy Defence Minister Datuk Seri Abdul Rahim Bakri said the move to turn NS into a voluntary exercise would be done gradually starting from 2017.

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