Selangor Sultan orders dual language road signboards in the state to be replaced with ones in BM

Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah has decreed that all road signboards in the state can only be in the national language - Bernama

PETALING JAYA: The Sultan of Selangor has decreed that all dual language road signboards in Shah Alam must be removed and replaced with ones featuring only the national language.

Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah’s private secretary Datuk Mohamad Munir Bani said this in a letter to the Selangor state government dated on Nov 19.

The letter said that all Chinese language road signboards in Shah Alam must be removed and replaced with only one language, which is Bahasa Melayu.

"The operation to change the road signboards must be done immediately and be completed at the latest before the Sultan of Selangor's 73rd birthday on Dec 11," Mohamad Munir said in a statement on Monday (Nov 19).