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<h1 class="gmail-uk-card-title gmail-uk-margin-remove-top gmail-uk-margin-small-bottom">Exco to set clear signboard policy, says Selangor MB</h1>
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<span>Bernama</span><br>
22 Nov 2018, 9:23 am
(Updated 22 Nov 2018, 9:59 am)
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<p>Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari has ordered the state executive
councillor in charge of local government to conduct a detailed study on
the implementation of signboards to create a clear policy to uphold
Bahasa Melayu as the national language.</p><p>Amirudin said the issue
arose when the implementation of the signboard policy made at a state
executive meeting in 2017 did not get the approval of Dewan Bahasa dan
Pustaka (DBP) and he took the stand of not pointing fingers at anyone.</p>“I
have reviewed the issue and the matter was not brought to the state
executive council meeting, which should have gone through DBP before
being passed by the state government.<div class="gmail-uk-position-relative" style="margin:0px 0px 30px auto;width:80%;max-width:360px;border-top:3px solid rgb(33,33,33);border-bottom:3px solid rgb(33,33,33);padding:0px 0px 5px"><div style="font-size:16px"><strong>Editor's Pick</strong></div><div><img src="https://i.malaysiakini.com/1327/6300ae36c4decb233e7d91fa0dee7cb7.jpeg" class="gmail-uk-width-1-1" alt="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px;"></div><div style="font-size:15px;line-height:1.3em"><strong>Larry Sng - the 'young man’, his father and their Julau bastion</strong></div></div><p>“This issue arose in Chinese majority areas and I do not want to focus on who should be blamed.</p><p>“So
I have directed the local government executive councillor to carry out a
study so that a clear and uniform policy could be formulated to uphold
our national language,” Amirudin told reporters after the groundbreaking
ceremony of a medium cost apartment in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.</p><p>On
the apartment, he said it was a continuation from the Permodalan Negeri
Selangor Bhd (PNSB) project in 2004 to develop the land in Gombak
district to relocate the original residents living in longhouses at the
project site.</p><p><i>- Bernama</i></p>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>