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After chairing ‘most substantive’ Asean Summit, PM Anwar sets sights on real change in Oct meet
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Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and International Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz during the Asean Summit at Kualua Lumpur on May 27.
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KUALA LUMPUR - When Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was asked about the parade of international leaders he would be welcoming to the Asean Summit, he responded: “Can you see my eyes?”
He began a group interview squinting through a lazy right eye on May 25 when regional leaders – as well as those from the Middle East and China – started to arrive in Kuala Lumpur for a series of meetings that would end on May 27.
