In its Feb 23 editorial headlined ‘We’re not pendatang!’ the Sin Chew Daily said:
“The Chinese people are always citizens of this country.”
“Chinese migrants had been traveling between China and the Malay Peninsula and Borneo for business or engaging in agriculture, mining and road-building works, for almost six centuries from Ming dynasty to the 1950s. Few of these early migrants eventually returned to China, but a lot more settled and died here.”
Err, “always citizens”? Really?
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