“I am proud of Keat Hwa today, one day Keat Hwa will be proud of me”.
Nine years ago, SMJK Keat Hwa student Jocelyn Yow penned this in her school magazine on her graduation.Twenty-five-year-old Yow of Alor Star in Kedah, who was born to a Malaysian father and a Vietnamese refugee mother, has made history by becoming the youngest woman of colour to serve as a mayor of a Californian city.
Her appointment, which made headlines in the Chinese press yesterday, has indeed made the Kedah school proud. According to the reports, Yow’s family emigrated to the United States after she completed her secondary education in 2011 and settled down in Eastvale, a young city with a population of about 73,000.In 2018 at age 23, she became Eastvale’s first woman councillor of Chinese descent and counted among the youngest Asian councillors in Southern California.
On her appointment, Yow, who became a mother six months ago, said she was one of the very few young mothers to serve as a mayor in California.Prior to her appointment, Yow had served as an aide to Nancy Polesi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Will she ever has similar opportunity in Malaysia?
In Malaysia she won’t even make it to state exco!
Malaysian only recognize old politicians..huhu
Whoooot3!!!
Other’s gain our lost. What is there to be proud of that we are exporting our talents to the gain of other countries? Malaysia
Kudos to her, shameful to Malaysia cause she would never be a mayor or it’s Malaysian equivalent because she is a pendatang
Erm, quite embarrassing, this shameful act of trying to tumpang glamer.
She can success in overseas but not in Malaysia
Majulah Malaysia like that.
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