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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[ 'FI-FA-Fo-FAM, who is that powerful person?' Mahathir fuels debate as government faces outrage over citizenship scandal ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 03:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ A prominent lawyer meanwhile schools the home minister after the latter cites 'ministerial discretion'. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Shameful double standard in our citizenship system ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 03:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ While these players obtained Malaysian citizenship with suspicious ease despite having no genuine ancestral link, stateless children born and raised on Malaysian soil continue to suffer from bureaucratic neglect. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ 'It's not their fault': Elderly couple worry about stateless children in their care ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Noraini Hasan and Zubir Ramli are willing to be separated if it means that the children they have been taking care of have a chance at an education. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Stateless no longer for young Suki ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Three years after her story of loss and statelessness touched the country, Suki Wong Pei Yee has her blue MyKad in hand. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ 8,000 MyKads lost each year, says JPN ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 23:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The National Registration Department says the situation is a cause for concern. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ JPN pans talk of Bangladeshis given ICs ahead of election ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2022 01:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The department says the photo of a MyKad making the rounds on social media shows the IC of a legitimate citizen who was adopted by a Chinese family at birth. ]]></description>
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