First we have the ‘God’ issue and now we have this from the Star.

Our currency wrongly denoted

FOR many years now, prices or monetary values used in our country are denoted by the acronym RM and pronounced as Ringgit Malaysia (or Malaysian Ringgit).

However, try picking up an Asian edition of an international magazine or checking our exchange rates via an international financial website, chances are our currency is often denoted as either MYR or MY$, while currencies of other countries (including those of neighbouring ones) are correctly used.

What happened to RM?

ABDUN NIZAR AHMAD,
Kuala Lumpur.

Obviously someone failed to see that MYR stands for Malaysian Ringgit much like JPY stands for Japanese Yen, USD for US Dollar, AUD for Australian Dollar…etc.

As if a preoccupation names isn’t enough, we decide to add stupidity to the list. Sorry Abdun Nizar Ahmad, you score a huge fail.

Also for the record, my issue of the Economist which had a picture of Adam and Eve on it, was also censored with their private parts blackened out. I shudder to think what’s happening in Malaysian museums with Greek statues.

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