Minister of Education Wu Ching-chi (吳清基) yesterday said that he and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng (林冠英) had reached a consensus last week to provide infrastructure for Taiwanese universities seeking to set up branches in the Malaysian state.
Wu said in a press release that Lim agreed to set up an international education center, providing an 81 hectare plot of land and school buildings to attract top Taiwanese universities to set up branches in Penang.
National schools in Malaysia teach in Malay, with the exception of science and math, while private schools are allowed to teach in Mandarin or Tamil.
The Malaysian government announced that the two subjects would be taught in English from 2003 onward.
However, it has since been announced that the policy would be reversed in 2012.
Cheng Hsiu-chen (鄭秀貞), section chief of the ministry’s Department of Technological and Vocational Education, declined to comment when asked if the ministry knew about the regulation on language use in Malaysian schools.
Wu led a ministry delegation to Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam between July 15 and July 22 to participate in the Taiwan Higher Education Fair in Malaysia and visit officials.
Wu said Lim hoped Taiwanese universities and Malaysia could join hands to nurture the professionals Malaysia needs, while the ministry will also send a task force to help Penang hold an innovation and science fair for high school students.
Taiwan would benefit from more integrated military strategies and deployments if the US and its allies treat the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea as a “single theater of operations,” a Taiwanese military expert said yesterday. Shen Ming-shih (沈明室), a researcher at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, said he made the assessment after two Japanese military experts warned of emerging threats from China based on a drill conducted this month by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Eastern Theater Command. Japan Institute for National Fundamentals researcher Maki Nakagawa said the drill differed from the
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