BMMalaysia has put a new idea for global skills cooperation on the table, and China has signalled its support. During a five-day working visit to China from 12 to 16 October 2026, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who chairs Malaysia’s National TVET Council, proposed a World TVET Council at the 2026 World […]
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Technical and vocational education took centre stage in Malaysia-China relations last week, when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim used the WorldSkills Conference 2026 in Shanghai to argue that skills training must sit at the heart of national industrial strategy. Speaking on 23 September at the plenary session, Anwar said Malaysia is placing TVET at […]
On September 22, 2026, Malaysia’s Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Ministry welcomed a visit from Sun Shuxian, China’s Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and head of the State Oceanic Administration, in Putrajaya. Hosted by Malaysian Minister Datuk Seri Arthur Joseph Kurup, the meeting marked another concrete step in the deepening Malaysia-China relations that have defined […]
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 […]
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 […]
The 2026 China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Week (CAECW) closed in Guiyang, Guizhou, in early August with an announcement that deserves more attention in Malaysia than it has received so far: the release of an International Mutual Recognition Framework for TVET Learning Outcomes. For anyone working on TVET Malaysia China cooperation, this is the quiet structural news […]
More than 5,000 runners of different ethnicities and ages lined up at the starting line in Kota Kinabalu on July 26, 2026, for the seventh edition of the Malaysia-China Run — a signature event that has become one of Sabah’s clearest expressions of grassroots Malaysia-China cooperation. Organized by the Malaysia-China Friendship Association Sabah, the run […]
On July 10, officials, political leaders, and scholars from Malaysia and China gathered in Kuala Lumpur for a symposium titled “Promoting Exchanges on Governance and Advancing Common Development between China and Malaysia,” hosted by the Chinese embassy and organized by the Malaysia Friends of Silk Road Club. It was a timely reminder that the Malaysia-China […]
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