Auditor-General’s Report: More than a quarter of Sarawak schools have serious defects


By YU JI

KUCHING: More than a quarter of schools in Sarawak have "serious defects" that are "risky to use", the latest Auditor-General report finds.

A whopping 388 schools out of 1,452 schools in Malaysia's largest state were either deemed to have inferior quality of buildings or poor maintenance, said the third and final A-G report for this year.

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