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A child is no threat to national security, MP tells deputy minister
Published:  Dec 4, 2020 2:59 PM
Updated: 6:59 AM
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Children cannot be a threat to national security, said Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh today.

She was responding to the government's stand against equal rights for Malaysian women to confer nationality on their children.

Yeoh said the policy, which affects children born abroad to a Malaysian mother and a foreign father, is archaic and discriminatory...

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