From 'Maz' to 'Mao' in one quick misstep

PETALING JAYA: Clothes make the man, Mark Twain once said, paraphrasing Shakespeare – and sometimes, clothes may even transform you into someone else in another's eyes.

This was what former education minister Dr Maszlee Malik experienced when his daughter's university professor mistook him for China's Mao Zedong after seeing a portrait on a shelf in his office.