Another Foon Yew High School campus to be built in Bandar Seri Alam

Liow (second from right) and Foon Yew High School management committee chairman Tong Sing Chuan pointing at the map of the new branch campus on Tuesday. Looking on are Wee (left) and Chong (right).

MASAI: MCA has announced a contribution of RM1mil for the development of the third Foon Yew High School campus in Bandar Seri Alam that has been slated for completion by 2020 with an estimated cost of RM50mil.

MCA president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said that the school would be built on some 9.4ha land, located near the Excelsior International School and UiTM campuses here.

“This fulfills Barisan Nasional’s promise during the last general election in 2013 to set up another Chinese secondary school in Bandar Seri Alam here.

“Now that the letter of approval has been acquired, the school management has to go all out to collect contributions to build the school in the next two to three years,” he told reporters after handing over the letter to the school management here on Tuesday.

Foon Yew High School, set up in 1913, is one of the oldest and biggest schools in Malaysia. It has a main campus in Stulang and another branch campus in Kulaijaya with over 10,000 students.

Liow, who is also the Transport Minister, said that the project was in line with the Government’s policy to provide a dynamic education system for all streams to master multiple languages including Mandarin.

Also present at the event were MCA deputy president and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong as well as the party’s Youth chief and Deputy Education Minister Senator Datuk Chong Sin Woon.