The National Registration Department (JPN) has recorded over 540,000 cases of illegitimate births from 2006 to June 2017, said Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

"From 2006 to June 30, 2017, there have been 542,363 registrations of illegitimate births (anak tak sah taraf)," Zahid told Mahfuz Omar (PAS-Pokok Sena) in a written parliamentary reply.

"However, not all of these children were conceived out of wedlock," added the home minister.

Mahfuz asked the government to provide the latest statistics on this group of children and the percentage of parents who only tied the knot after giving birth to illegitimate children...