IT IS NO secret that Malaysia ranks among those countries with the most public holidays (both at national and state levels) in the world. The subject of public holidays which often benefits the workforce/employees but can be a bane to private sector employers has elicited a debate between fierce socio-political critic Mariam Mokhtar and scholar Prof Dr Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi who is a Professor of Islamic Architecture at the USCI University. Interestingly, the duo who are both columnists in the Sin Chew Daily English news portal clashed over their ‘extremist' views of having additional public holidays for the Hari Raya festivity, thus creating a debate that is worthy of further deliberation in the Parliament.

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