It's MILES better than before

From: New Straits Times | Date: January 3, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Rehman Rashid
New Straits Times
01-03-2005
It's MILES better than before
Byline: Rehman Rashid
Edition: 2*

AS with no other school on the justly-celebrated occasion of its centennial, doubts cloud the prospects of the Malay College Kuala Kangsar.

For all their citations in the footnotes of Malaysian history, in 100 years there have been only about 7,000 Malay College alumni. The 5,000 or so alive today may look back in pride on the history of the school where they spent their teen years being turned from young men into old boys.
But their view ahead is shadowed by the irony that the Malay ...

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