July 27, 2001
Chinese in Malaysia to Get a University
The government of Malaysia has approved long-stalled plans by an organization representing the country's Chinese residents to establish its own private university.
The new institution, to be known as the University of Tunku Abdul Rahman, or U.T.A.R., will operate under the governance of the Malaysian Chinese Association, the country's dominant political and cultural grouping of Chinese Malaysians, who account for some 30 percent of the country's 22 million
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