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        "id": 1201851,
        "msgid": "alien-universities-welcomed-in-kl-1447893297",
        "date": "1995-01-12 00:00:00",
        "title": "Alien universities welcomed in KL",
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        "summary": "Alien universities welcomed in KL KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysia is opening its doors to foreign universities in a bid to stop soaring education costs and thousands of students from going abroad yearly for higher studies, officials said yesterday. \"Appropriate conditions that are in line with the government's policies and the nation's needs will be imposed on foreign universities setting up branches here,\" Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was reported saying in local newspapers.",
        "content": "<p>Alien universities welcomed in KL<\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysia is opening its doors to foreign<br>\nuniversities in a bid to stop soaring education costs and<br>\nthousands of students from going abroad yearly for higher<br>\nstudies, officials said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\"Appropriate conditions that are in line with the government's<br>\npolicies and the nation's needs will be imposed on foreign<br>\nuniversities setting up branches here,\" Prime Minister Mahathir<br>\nMohamad was reported saying in local newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the decision, to be implemented soon, will<br>\nreverse a 24-year-old regulation which allowed only local<br>\nuniversities to offer first degree courses in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Malaysian University and University Colleges Act 1971 was<br>\ndrafted basically to ensure protection of the native Malay<br>\nlanguage and other national interests in higher-education<br>\ncurricula.<\/p>",
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