KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 4 -- Did you know that Malaysia's laws protect "new born" children that are found abandoned from becoming stateless persons, and enables them to have the right to automatically be Malaysians?

But what is a "new born child"?

The Court of Appeal recently told a woman (identified only as G for privacy purposes) that she was not a "new born" child when found abandoned at around 1am at a bus station in Mentakab, Pahang in December 1997.

A doctor who examined G at that time had estimated she was aged about one year old, while G's adoptive Malaysian mother's police report filed two days later said she was approximately one and a half years old when found.

G has since then been adopted and raised by her Malaysian adoptive p...