Kuala Lumpur: Former deputy law minister Ramkarpal Singh has urged that the government either retract or at least defer recently proposed amendments to citizenship laws that could affect foundlings and abandoned children.

Kuala Lumpur: A senior DAP MP has urged parents to continue persevering in applying for citizenship for their stateless children despite the difficult and time-consuming process.

Kuala Lumpur: The High Court in Shah Alam declared a 10-year-old stateless girl, whose biological parents are unknown and is now the adopted child of a couple in Kuala Lumpur, as a Malaysian yesterday.

Second of a series .

(First of a series) IT was to help locals in the interior who live and die without benefitting like other more fortunate Malaysians that led the Government to establish a mobile unit within the Registration Department. .

PETALING JAYA: The government should cut the red tape and allow stateless children to be enrolled in public schools, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) said.

Kuala Lumpur: A teenager’s 16-year wait for his Malaysian citizenship is over after it was finally approved last month.