Child of M’sian dad, Chinese national is M’sian

A child born in this country to a Malaysian father and a foreign mother is still a citizen of Malaysia, even if the parents were yet to marry at the time of birth.

This was the gist of the landmark decision by the Ipoh High Court today, which allowed the citizenship suit by the five-year-old girl’s father, Ong Chin Hock. The 38-year-old father is married to a woman of Chinese nationality.

Online news portal The Malay Mail reported the family’s counsel Nicholas Kow…