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Dialogue with YB Dato' Ong Tee Keat  On the 3rd of March 2007, CUMaS was honoured to play host to Malaysia's Deputy Higher Minister of Education, YB Dato' Ong Tee Keat, who took the opportunity to visit Cambridge and hold a dialogue with Malaysian students studying here. 
The Deputy Minister was accompanied by Selangor assemblyman YB Dato' Lee Hwa Beng and the president of the MCA Club UK. He began his visit by having lunch at the famous Cambridge restaurant Chez Gerard with CUMaS committee members past and present, followed by a short tour of some of Cambridge's most famous Colleges and landmarks. CUMaS members took this opportunity to show off their colleges to the Minister, beginning with St John's and its Tower, followed up with King's and a viewing of its Chapel, and ending with Clare, where Dato' Lee Hwa Beng offered to buy Clare College a brick to finish off its famously uncompleted bridge. 
Then began the question-and-answer dialogue session at the Senior Parlour in Gonville & Caius College. The room was packed to capacity, and the Deputy Minister began by saying that he had no wish to waste our time like other politicians with a propaganda-filled speech, and immediately opened the floor to questions.  And questions came indeed, what with his audience comprising Cambridge students. They ranged from questions about government policy to Anwar Ibrahim's visit, and there were so many that the Minister ran out of time before he could field them all. He thanked the students for making the time to attend the event, and for taking such an interest in current affairs. The CUMaS committee saw the Minister's delegation off at West Road. 
We would like to thank all the members involved in making this event the success that it was.
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