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                                <title><![CDATA[ Lawyers to accompany boy to JPN, slam 'bureaucratic madness' despite court order to issue MyKad ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Instead of complying with a High Court order to issue a blue MyKad, the 17-year-old was sent away with 24 sets of irrelevant forms. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ How deceit and fraud have shamed Malaysian football ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 02:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The greed to rely on foreign players for easy victories has shattered the hard work and genuine efforts of local talents. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Company linked to Farhash gets RM732 million job to supply MyKads ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 07:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The contract comes just six months after Farhash emerged as the largest shareholder of MMAG Holdings, in which NexG Berhad has a substantial stake. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Hannah Yeoh, stop misleading the public on citizenship bill ]]></title>
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                                <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Zaid Malek ]]></dc:creator>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 03:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Thousands of stateless children born overseas to Malaysian mothers will receive no benefit whatsoever from this bill. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Is Malaysia set to become the pariah of the Muslim world? ]]></title>
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                                <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Abdar Rahman Koya ]]></dc:creator>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Yes, if our MPs foolishly vote in favour of constitutional amendments that take away the citizenship rights of foundlings and orphans. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Dear home minister, the stateless are not 'migrants and others' ]]></title>
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                                <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Zaid Malek ]]></dc:creator>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Lawyers for Liberty takes Saifuddin Nasution Ismail to task over his defence of proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution relating to citizenship laws. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Putrajaya pushes on with plan to remove citizenship protection for abandoned kids, disadvantaged groups ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2023 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Experts and activists have urged the government against bundling five 'regressive' amendments with the much welcomed amendment to grant equal rights to Malaysian mothers. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Lawyers urge Anwar’s govt to intervene in plight of 4 siblings denied citizenship ]]></title>
                                <link>https://www.malaysianow.com/news/2023/10/17/lawyers-urge-anwars-govt-to-intervene-in-plight-of-4-siblings-denied-citizenship</link>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2023 04:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ They say the prime minister has a moral duty to help them. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Home minister must not usurp citizenship rights in constitution ]]></title>
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                                <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Zaid Malek ]]></dc:creator>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 01:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Lawyers group Lawyers for Liberty takes Saifuddin Nasution Ismail to task over his statement that the power to grant citizenship is the exclusive right of the federal government. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Home ministry vetting over 9,500 citizenship applications, says Saifuddin ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The home minister says the government has also finished the draft amendment to Part III of the Federal Constitution regarding citizenship, which will be presented to the Rulers’ Council this month. ]]></description>
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