PUTRAJAYA, Feb 20 — Two non-governmental organisations (NGOs) today lost their final bid to seek a declaration that the existence and establishment of vernacular schools and the use of Chinese and Tamil languages in those schools are unconstitutional.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 22 — The Federal Court has fixed February 20 to hear the applications by two non-governmental organisations to seek leave to appeal against a Court of Appeal decision to declare using Mandarin and Tamil as the instruction medium in vernacular schools as constitutional.