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RM1.1mil for seven Chinese schools in Kedah

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 11:25 PM PDT

RM1.1mil for seven Chinese schools in Kedah

2011/07/28
By Lee Keng Fatt, Adib Povera and Nadia Badarudin
news@nst.com.my

ALOR STAR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has announced a RM1.1 million financial assistance from the Federal Government to seven Chinese schools and an association of former students for a Chinese school in the state.

Najib said three private schools – Sekolah Menengah Sin Min in Sungai Petani, Sekolah Menengah Keat Hwa and Sekolah Menengah Sin Min here, will received RM200,000 each.

Four Chinese vernacular schools – Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan Chio Min in Kulim, Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan Sin Min in Sungai Petani, Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan Keat Hwa 1 and Sekolah Menengah Keat Hwa II (CORRECT) here; will each received RM100,000.

Also receiving the same amount was Keat Hwa Former Students Association.

The allocation were given to the recipients to help them to conduct upgrading works and organise more activities for their schools.

The prime minister made the announcement when he met the Chinese community at Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan Keat Hwa I in Jalan Kuala Kedah here.

Earlier, Najib visited Al-Rahmah mosque in Taman Wira, Mergong here.

At the mosque, Najib was briefed on the extension work of the building, costing about RM1.12 million, funded by the Government.

He later spent 30 minutes with the people during his walkabout at housing estate Pasar Tani.

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Time to move from tolerance to acceptance, PM tells Malaysians

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:19 PM PDT

Time to move from tolerance to acceptance, PM tells Malaysians

ALOR SETAR: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak urged the people today to "move from tolerance to acceptance" to bring closer together Malaysia's multi-racial society.

The Prime Minister said: "In the practice of tolerance, there are still dividing walls and feelings of our difference from one another."

In comparison, acceptance celebrates diversity and uses the strength of all, regardless of race, he said at a meet-the-people session at Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan Keat Hwa 1 in Jalan Kuala Kedah near here which was celebrating its 100th anniversary.

"This is a strength for our nation. As in a football match, people from our various communities help one another for the success of our team," Najib added.

"If one of us score an own goal, we will lose. This (solidarity) value is important to us all, no matter the colour of our skin or how we look," said the Prime Minister, who arrived here this morning for a one-day working visit to Kedah. -- BERNAMA

Rabu, 27 Julai 2011