Cabinet agrees to amend Constitution's citizenship rules

The cabinet has agreed with the proposal to amend the Federal Constitution to allow Malaysian women the right to grant citizenship to their children, even if they are born overseas to foreign fathers.

This was notified in a joint statement by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Azalina Othman Said and Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail last night.

“We would like to...