Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak today congratulated University Teknologi Mara (UiTM) and Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA) Malaysia for winning both the main and English as Second Language trophies at the Cambridge Intervarsity Debating Competition.

“Congratulations to UiTM for winning the Cambridge Intervarsity Debating Competition and UIA for winning the English as Second Language (ESL) category. You have made us proud,” he said in his latest Facebook posting today.

UiTM is the first Malaysian university to win in the main category when they came out victorious in the four-way grand finals against the team from Trinity College of Dublin Historical Society and two teams from the University of Toronto, Hart House A & B, reported The Star .

UiTM was represented by Mohd Mifzal Mohd Murshid Kieron and Jasmine Ho, both 22.

Meanwhile, UIA which was represented by Ameera Natasha Moore, 22, and Sara Rahim, 20, defeated Tel Aviv from Israel and Leiden A and Leiden B, both from the Netherlands.

A total of 128 teams from various universities, including Harvard University, Oxford University, The London School of Economics, University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, Cornell University and the Trinity College Dublin took part in the competition.

- Bernama