PARLIAMENT | Rompin MP Hasan Arifin has dismissed the notion for the country to restore English as the medium of learning in schools.

This is because the majority of countries that adopted an English-medium education system were not successful, he said, during the Budget 2018 debate in Dewan Rakyat.

"I see a connection in critical thinking and English. We have seen surveys in Singapore which called for the English-medium education system to be restored...