{"id":479,"date":"2009-07-28T11:32:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T03:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limguaneng.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2009-07-31T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T02:18:00","slug":"ex-convict-now-chief-minister-the-straits-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/28\/ex-convict-now-chief-minister-the-straits-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-convict now Chief Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/Breaking%2BNews\/Singapore\/Story\/STIStory_409347.html\">By Tracy Sua (The Straits Times)<\/a><br \/>\nMALAYSIA&#8217;S Democratic Action Party&#8217;s (DAP) Leader Lim Guan Eng had served jail time twice in his political career.<\/p>\n<p>After a fierce struggle as opposition leader, he was sworn in as the Penang Chief Minister following the Malay General Elections in March 2008.<\/p>\n<p>His party was part of the opposition alliance Pakatan Rakyat which won control of five states in the Malaysian election.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old spoke to Singapore Press Holdings journalists during a visit to Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the rocky path that Mr Lim took as an opposition leader and the challenges he face as the Chief Minister on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.razor.tv\/site\/servlet\/segment\/main\/news\/33898.html\">RazorTV.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tracy Sua (The Straits Times) MALAYSIA&#8217;S Democratic Action Party&#8217;s (DAP) Leader Lim Guan Eng had served jail time twice in his political career. After a fierce struggle as opposition leader, he was sworn in as the Penang Chief Minister following the Malay General Elections in March 2008. His party was part of the opposition &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/28\/ex-convict-now-chief-minister-the-straits-times\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ex-convict now Chief Minister<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limguaneng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}