Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said, “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” It is beneficial if one is willing to acquire another language, whether in written or ...

The ban of Chinese Organisations Joint Congress has intensified the already highly sensitive issue. Let me first state my personal position. I feel that the Jawi calligraphy should never be a ...

The issue of introducing the teaching of Jawi script or khat calligraphy in schools has become a hot issue, as it is facing vehement opposition by the non-Malay-Muslims, especially the ethnic Chinese.

COMMENT | The Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHST) has followed the debate on the khat calligraphy issue. We note that the Education ...

KUALA LUMPUR — Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang has labelled opponents to teaching khat art to standard four students as descendants or proxies of British ...

PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A meeting to discuss Jawi writing in Malaysia's Chinese and Tamil language schools on Sunday (Dec 29) passed several resolutions, chief of which was to put ...