KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today launched the National Reading Decade (DMK) which is the government’s initiative to promote the reading habit among the people.

According to the programme book of the launch of the DMK, the government will promote an environment to encourage the reading habit and the people’s mental preparedness in an aggressive, creative and inclusive manner aimed at making Malaysia a reading nation within the next 10 years.