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Apa nak jadi dengan Sekolah Kebangsaan bila orang Melayu sendiri dah tak yakin dan pandang rendah

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Guru Kelas Tahun Satu, Saw Shen Yuan Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (SJK) (Cina) Kong Aik, pada sesi pembelajaran ketika tinjauan hari pertama persekolahan sesi 2025-2026. GAMBAR HARIAN METRO OLEH LUQMAN HAKIM ZUBIR Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (SJK) Cina (SJKC) Kong Aik, Mata Ayer, di Atau, Perlis, merekodkan tiada kemasukan murid berbangsa Cina pada hari pertama pembukaan sesi persekolahan 2025/2026, semalam. Sebaliknya, sekolah itu yang sudah beroperasi sejak 1939 menyaksikan 23 murid melapor tahun satu yang terdiri daripada bangsa Melayu dan Siam. Menurut Harian Metro , Pengarah Pendidikan Negeri Perlis, Rose Aza Che Ariffin berkata, lokaliti sekolah yang berada di kawasan penempatan majoriti Melayu dilihat antara punca ibu bapa daripada bangsa bukan Cina lebih senang menghantar anak mereka ke sekolah itu. "Faktor lokaliti memainkan peranan dalam hal ini kerana di sekeliling sekolah terutama Pekan Mata Ayer adalah kawasan majoriti bangsa Melayu serta murid Cina dilihat lebih banyak ke s...

Bad news for self-claimed heirs of the defunct Sulu sultanate

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Spanish court affirms annulment of Stampa’s arbitrator appointment Gonzalo Stampa had ordered Malaysia to pay US$14.92 billion to the self-claimed heirs of the defunct Sulu sultanate The Madrid High Court dismissed the Sulu claimants’ attempt to revoke the annulment of Gonzalo Stampa’s appointment as arbitrator. File Picture The Madrid High Court has upheld its decision in 2021 to annul Gonzalo Stampa’s appointment as arbitrator in a case against Malaysia brought by the self-claimed heirs of the defunct Sulu sultanate, FMT reported today. In a statement, the government’s special secretariat on the Sulu claimants’ case said the court also dismissed the claimants’ attempt to revoke the annulment of Stampa’s appointment. In delivering its decision on 11 February, the court also ordered the Sulu claimants to pay costs to the Malaysian government. “The decision confirms that the annulment request of the Sulu claimants ‘lacks the minimum evidentiary rigour and consistency’, as it is based o...