It's time we focus on unity and not some writing on the wall ― Zakiah Hanum Kassim
28 June 2019
How is Chinese calligraphy offensive? The couplets in question represent two lines of poetry which read as follows: “May the fate of the nation prosper and welcome a golden era” and “May everyone in the family get along well and a hundred businesses boom.”In addition, the minister’s office also has a large framed wall hanging of a Quranic verse, and Maneki-neko .
The actual context of the photographs is this: they were taken during the courtesy call by the president of Microsoft Corporation Asia Pacific to the Ministry of Finance.
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