Deputy Education Minister Mah Hang Soon has intervened after several publicly funded Chinese-language primary schools in Pekan, Pahang received new school name signboards devoid of Chinese characters.

Sinchew Daily recently reported the Pahang education department supplied such signboards to two schools - SJK(C) Yoke Hwa and SJK(C) Kee Wha - in early November.

The signboards bore the SJK(C) schools’ names in Bahasa Malaysia and...