BMSeptember has turned East Malaysia into a showcase for what cultural programming can do. Two events running almost back to back — one in Sarawak, one in Sabah — offer a useful reminder that Malaysia-China cultural exchange is not something imported for special occasions. It is already woven into how Malaysians celebrate together. In Sibu, […]
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Malaysia’s technical and vocational education sector has had an unusually loud year, and the signals all point in one direction: skills training is no longer a fallback pathway. It is national policy. The clearest marker came at National TVET Day 2026 at Dataran Putrajaya, where 510,151 visitors turned up over three days — a record […]
KUALA LUMPUR — The education allocation in Budget 2027 must hold to four principles: fairness, transparency, institutional consistency and a forward-looking outlook. That was the call from Wong Kang Thai, President of the Malaysia-China Culture and Education Association (MCCEA), in a statement urging the government to ensure that schools of every stream receive reasonable resources […]
Kuala Lumpur hosted a quietly significant moment for Malaysia-China cultural exchange this month. The 2026 “Blooming Flowers Along the Way” China-Malaysia International Culture and Art Performance and Exhibition concluded in the capital on 2 August, closing a programme that placed the traditional arts of both countries on the same stage rather than in separate showcases. […]
Something quietly significant happened in Guiyang on 16 August 2026. Seventeen schools from Guizhou Province signed partnership agreements with seventeen Malaysian schools at Guiyang No. 3 High School, under the 2026 Guizhou–Malaysia Friendship Schools and Exchange Programme. There were no headline-grabbing figures attached, and that is precisely why it matters. Malaysia-China education cooperation has long […]
Last week, industry voices in Sabah returned to a familiar theme: the state’s oil and gas sector needs a deeper pool of certified technical talent, and the TVET ecosystem is the mechanism to build it. Reporting on 22 August 2026 highlighted calls to strengthen Sabah’s technical and vocational training pipeline so that local workers can […]
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MCCEA and Singapore Music and Arts Association Explore a Malaysia-Singapore-China Writing Competition
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KUALA LUMPUR — The Malaysia-China Culture and Education Association (MCCEA) and the Singapore Music and Arts Association are in discussions with cultural and education organisations in China to jointly organise a Chinese-language writing competition spanning Malaysia, Singapore and China. The proposed competition would invite students, young people and anyone with an interest in writing to […]
Malaysia’s technical and vocational education sector is having a moment that can actually be measured. Between January and June 2026, employers advertised 343,836 TVET-related job opportunities through the MYFutureJobs portal at an average advertised salary of RM3,658 a month, Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri R. Ramanan announced in late July. Demand stretched across engineering, electrical […]