By Cheong Suk-Wai, Senior Writer (from Straits Times)
PENANG’S fourth Chief Minister, Mr Lim Guan Eng, may be called The Comeback Kid not only for his perseverance during a rocky political career but also for his dry rejoinders to pesky reporters’ questions. ‘I never miss a beat,’ the 48-year-old likes to say.
He has been detained twice – in 1988 and 1998 – under Malaysia’s Internal Security Act and its Sedition and Printing Presses And Publications Act. One of his detentions was due to having been outspoken in defence of the grandmother of a girl who had been allegedly raped by a Malacca chief minister.
The Malacca-born, Monash-educated accountant worked in a bank before throwing himself into politics in 1986.
Continue reading “Table talk with Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng: Comeback Kid defends his corner”