The Malaysian contingent at the Anglo Singapore International School in Bangkok.
PETALING JAYA: A group of Malaysian secondary school students have made the nation proud by winning the Asian World Schools Debate Championship (AWSDC), held in Bangkok, Thailand.
The team – made up of Deborah Wong Kai Wai, 17, from SMK Damansara Jaya, Thevesh Thevanathan, 17, from Kolej Tuanku Jaafar, and Nishanth Selvalingam, 18, from the International School of Kuala Lumpur (ISKL) – proposed the motion “This house believes that if leaders of capable states turn away refugees, the International Criminal Court should try them for crimes against humanity” in the finals against South Africa on Monday night.
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