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Mandarin-speaking Malay RTD staff to receive award

KANGAR: The Perlis Road Transport Department (RTD) staff, who shot to fame when a video of her speaking in Mandarin to assist two students from China went viral, is being rewarded by the department's director-general.

The enforcement assistant staff, Nur Syafiqah Azaman, 23, is scheduled to be awarded by RTD director-general Datuk Shaharuddin Khalid at his office in Putrajaya tomorrow.

"The reward for Nur Syafiqah from our director-general is also an honour for the state RTD, while the viral video has helped to improve the department's image," Perlis RTD corporate communications officer Mohd Tarmizi Ghazali said when contacted today.

Nur Syafiqah became an overnight sensation when the video of her explaining the process of car ownership transfer in Mandarin to two students from Shandong, China, raked in over one million views in less than 24 hours after it was uploaded to the RTD Perlis website. Nur Syafiqah had stepped in to explain the process in Mandarin as the students, Sun Wen Xuan, 18, and Zhai Qin Xing, 19, were not fluent in English and could not speak Malay.

Nur Syafiqah said she learnt the language since young as her mother is a Chinese and they converse in Mandarin at home. She also studied in a Chinese vernacular school, Sekolah Rendah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina (SJKC) Yit Min in Changlun.

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