Malaysia’s Royal Selangor Club scraps 139-year-old rule banning women from bar
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There had been repeated calls over the years to quash the colonial tradition, which the Royal Selangor Club’s president said was introduced so that ‘sweaty, unkempt’ sportsmen did not ‘offend women folk’ when ‘sharing dirty jokes after a few drinks’.