By Dr. Shazelina Zainul Abidin
The New Straits Times-May 24

THE night of Malaysia’s 14th general election, as the country sat riveted with the election results, I received various text messages from friends and contacts on the African continent.
Many wanted to know if Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was going to be able to pull off the biggest political coup this side of history. Then, there were others who just wanted to know if this would mean that there would be rioting on the streets of Kuala Lumpur.
Read more at: https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnists/2018/05/372572/malaysia-eyes-world
First published in: The New Straits Times