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Excusez-moi, señor Ismail wants M'sian names for roads, housing areas
Former prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob is far from pleased that there are residential areas and streets with foreign names, such as in French and Spanish.
To curb this practice, he urged the government to amend the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) Act 1959 to give it more bite.
Speaking at Simposium Antarabangsa Aspirasi Bahasa Melayu in Kuala Lumpur today, he said during the previous symposium when he was still the prime minister...
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