A strong believer in “Malaysian Malaysia”, Hannah Yeoh made national news a few years ago when she and her husband, who is from a different race, tried to register their child as a Malaysian. “My husband is from a mixed marriage and that is why the sense of Malaysian identity for our kids is very strong. Yeoh recalls her attempts to register Shay as an “anak Malaysia” with the National Registry Department (NRD) in 2011, which unfortunately, ended up futile. “They (NRD) said no, the system is not capable of registering our child outside these three boxes – Malay, Chinese, Indian. Otherwise, we would only go back to the same racial argument.”As a result, Shay was registered as a Chinese child.

Source: The Star September 15, 2018 23:48 UTC