KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 19 -- Advocacy group Family Frontiers and the Malaysian government will look into settling a court case on Malaysian citizenship issues, ahead of the Federal Court's March 10 hearing of the constitutional challenge which has gone on for more than four years.

In this court case, Family Frontiers wants the Federal Court to hear and decide on three legal questions, including whether Malaysian mothers' overseas-born children should also be entitled to be Malaysians automatically.

Family Frontiers had also asked the court to decide if the Federal Constitution's prohibition of gender discrimination also applies to Malaysia's citizenship laws, which currently only allows Malaysian fathers' overseas-born children to become Ma...