‘Teach smartphone use at early age’


With some countries trying to restrict smartphone use by children amid a world body’s push to ban its use in classrooms, experts and parents say such a move may not be practical in Malaysia. - FAIHAN GHANI/The Star

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PETALING JAYA: It may be easy to pass a law forbidding the use of mobile phones among children, but it is not easy to enforce it, says a child expert.

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