I READ with amusement Bukit Bintang MP Fong Kai Lun's recent suggestion that the Petaling Street area should not be named Chinatown because of the “derogatory” connotations surrounding the term.
He also reasoned that it would give the impression that the Chinese living there were not citizens of the country, as well as that it would remind people of a “gathering area for riff-raff”.
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