PUTRAJAYA: The Internal Security Ministry said it would check with the Higher Education Ministry whether Wee Meng Chee, who rapped to the Negaraku in a videoclip, is studying in Taiwan on a scholarship or government loan.

The ministry's secretary-general Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said he had already spoken with his counterpart at the Higher Education Ministry for information on Wee.

"He went to Taiwan to study and not to write songs. But we will let the ministry study his status first before contemplating any kind of action against him or deciding if he will have to come back.

"If we find there is any element of crime or sedition in his song, we will move in," he told reporters after attending a seminar on important targets at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre here today.

Abdul Aziz said he had not personally watched the video which could be found at the free video portal YouTube.

Wee, a 24-year-old mass communications student at Ming Chuan University in Taiwan, had insisted that he was being patriotic when he was singing the song in the six-minute videoclip.

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