Man with a green plan – meet Malaysia's new minister for the environment


Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change Minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad answering questions in Parliament on Feb 23, 2023. The new minister is still in a steep learning curve in a ministry that 'receives one of the largest allocations in the annual budget as well as the most number of questions in Parliament'. — Bernama

By all accounts, Setiawangsa MP Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad has had a privileged life.

He says so himself in his book, Malaysian Son, which he penned when he was 39 as “some sort of part one” to his political career that started when he was just 19.

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