CNY nothing to do with religion, foreign minister says after Malay party raises bogey in Puchong school decor
Lunar New Year decorations, featuring Chinese zodiac animal, the rat, are seen near Jalan Tun HS Lee in Kuala Lumpur January 7, 2020. — Picture by Hari Anggara
The foreign minister took to Twitter in response to a Malay party official’s claim yesterday that a public school in Puchong, Selangor had gone overboard with decorations for the upcoming Chinese New Year, purportedly in an attempt to convert its Muslim students. “CNY has nothing to do with religion. We have celebrated together for decades. This tradition must continue,” Saifuddin tweeted this morning.
The cultural festival is a two-day public holiday in Malaysia where roughly 30 per cent of its population is ethnically Chinese. This year, Chinese New Year falls on January 25 and 26.
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