Guan Eng: Penang government was just defending itself


Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng says Malaysia is not in an austerity mode, instead it is adopting a smart spending in the key priority areas. - Bernama

GEORGE TOWN: The Penang state government was just defending itself in the press statements issued last January, says Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng (pic).

Testifying in the defamation suit he filed against former Penang Barisan Nasional chairman Teng Chang Yeow, Lim agreed that the press statements were also attacks against Barisan and what he believed to be "Barisan media."

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