Joining the fray at only 23


All in the family: Peggy (second from left) with her father Tommy, mother Yong and elder brother Kelsy Chaw Yi Hao.

KOTA KINABALU: One of Malaysia’s youngest candidates, Peggy Chaw Zhi Ting, did not expect to contest in the Tenom parliamentary seat.

Peggy, 23, joined the fray at the eleventh hour after her father could not file his own nomination papers.

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