New ministers and deputy ministers


  • Nation
  • Wednesday, 19 Mar 2008

DATUK SHAHRIR ABDUL SAMAD, 59, is Johor Baru Umno division chairman andalso the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman, both posts that he has heldsince 2004. 

Shahrir, who has a Masters in Business Administration from IMEDE University,Switzerland, began his political career after he became political secretary toDatuk (now Tun) Musa Hitam, the then Deputy Minister of Trade & Industry &Minister of Primary Industries in 1973. 

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