Example for all Malaysians


THE story of Leftenan Muda Chan Ming Youn, “Chinese man earns green beret” (The Star, April 30), has a lesson for all Malaysians.

And that lesson is the importance of diversity, loyalty, resilience, teamwork, meritocracy and national unity in a multiracial, multicultural and multireligious country.

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