As for learning khat, Jawi or Chinese calligraphy in school, there is nothing religious or racial about it. Unfortunately, in Malaysia’s polarised society, matters of this nature can easily be ...

We need not worry or feel fearful that the Chinese culture and religion will be threatened by the education ministry’s move. The issue of introducing the Jawi calligraphy in Bahasa Melayu ...

Whether Jawi calligraphy will be taught at a school is now wholly decided by a simple majority of approving parents (51%).

Non-Muslim organisations are allowed to display Jawi calligraphy bearing the name of Prophet Muhammad, as long as the displayed objects are not portraits of the prophet or the Quran, and are not ...

HUAZONG is urging the government to put aside the implementation of Jawi calligraphy in primary schools for the time being and cancel this year’s attempt by the Education Ministry to send out ...

ALOR SETAR, June 22 (Bernama) -- A former Geography and Cartography lecturer at Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah took on the role of elevating the use of Jawi writing through the art of Islamic ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 (Bernama) -- Incorporating Jawi calligraphy into Malaysian batik art preserves cultural heritage and enhances the status of the Jawi script. Deputy Minister in the Prime ...

PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A meeting to discuss Jawi writing in Malaysia's Chinese and Tamil language schools on Sunday (Dec 29) passed several resolutions, chief of which was to ...

Jawi is a subject whereby the beauty of its artistic stroke connects our generation to the long history of our proud Malaysia. Let us support Jawi for the sake of our nation.

Pakatan Harapan lawmaker Wong Shu Qi today accused the opposition of taking her speech on the introduction of khat (Jawi calligraphy) in schools out of context in a bid to play up racial ...

Norizan Mat Diah, Marina Ismail, Putri Mazliana Abdul Hami and Suzana Ahmad of UiTM Shah Alam, Malaysia developed a software to teach children Jawi calligraphy. UiTM lecturers are reviving Jawi, the ...

On August 8, the Malaysian government announced that khat (Jawi calligraphy) will be an optional elective for Chinese and Tamil vernacular schools, after an earlier decision for it to be taught to ...