First overseas campus for Chinese varsity


Opening touch: Najib at the ground breaking ceremony. Looking on are (from left) assistant to China's education minister Chen Shuan, Liow and other officials.

AFTER over nine decades, Xiamen University, China has come a full circle with the start of construction work for its Malaysian campus this month.

The university was founded in 1921 by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Tan Kah Kee, a Chinese businessman who achieved success in Malaysia in the early 20th century — to the point that he was dubbed the “Henry Ford of Malaya”.

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