Marzuki now says his ‘Cambridge degree’ is from a distance-learning US centre


  • Nation
  • Wednesday, 06 Feb 2019

GEORGE TOWN, 5 Feb -- Timbalan Menteri Luar, Datuk Marzuki Yahya menjawab soalan wakil media mengenai dakwaan beliau menipu rakyat di negara ini berhubung latar belakang pendidikannya ketika ditemui selepas menghadiri majlis rumah terbuka Tahun Baharu Cina anjuran Menteri Kewangan bersama Dewan Perniagaan Tionghua Pulau Pinang di Setia Spice Convention Centre hari ini. --fotoBERNAMA (2019) HAK CIPTA TERPELIHARA

PETALING JAYA: Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Marzuki Yahya, who previously said he had a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Cambridge pursued through a distance learning programme, is now saying his degree is from a US institution.

“I think they (my critics) misunderstood (my credentials). I (studied) at the Cambridge International University in the United States,” he was reported as saying by Malaysiakini.

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