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Pavit Coran delivers his speech during the English Speaking Union Malaysia-Taylor’s College Public Speaking Competition 2021 final held at Taylor’s University in Petaling Jaya April 24, 2021. Bernama
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 16 Malaysian student Pavit Coran has emerged as champion in the English Speaking Union (ESU) International Public Speaking Competition held online and virtually on Friday.
Pavit, a 19-year-old student at Multimedia University in Melaka representing the English Speaking Union of Malaysia (ESUM) beat 35 other participants from 33 countries in the Grand Finals, said ESUM in a statement.
Modern Diplomacy
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Democracies have an inbuilt flaw when their own processes can be employed to undermine them. It is what has happened in Hungary in the last decade, and Hungary is not alone.
In his youth the current prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, was an ardent dissident leading a youth movement, Fidesz, and in 1989 he was calling for the removal of Soviet troops and free democratic elections. Opposition to single-party socialist rule was eventually successful, and he was elected a Fidesz member of the National Assembly in 1990.
In 1998, his party won a plurality, and he served his first term as prime minister until 2002 when the socialists returned to power. However, a landslide victory in 2010 gave Orban a two-thirds supermajority, and with it the power to amend constitutional laws.
Pavit Coran (third from right) received the mock cheque from ESUM chairman Tunku Dara Naquiah (third from left) after winning the ESUM-Taylor’s Public Speaking Competition Final. Looking on are British High Commissioner to Malaysia Charles Hay (second from right), Taylor’s College pro-vice chancellor and campus director, Josephine Tan (second from left), Keerat Kaur Wathan (left) and Kon Li Ann (right).
PETALING JAYA: Multimedia University student Pavit Coran will represent Malaysia at the upcoming English Speaking Union (ESU) International Public Speaking Competition (IPSC) held virtually in London, United Kingdom.
The largest public speaking competition in the world will be held from May 10 to 14.
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“It was my first visit abroad and a trip that set me up for university.” Prof Raven, who was born and grew up in Colchester, is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Essex University and a fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge and of the British Academy. Behind Prof Raven and the prince in the picture are Native Americans in traditional dress from the English Speaking Union of Canada. “Dartmouth House is still the headquarters of the English Speaking Union of the Commonwealth,” added Prof Raven. “It’s a charity for which I’ve been working for more than 40 years, serving on its national board and becoming its chairman between 2019 and 2021, in succession to Lord Boateng.”