Minister gets brickbats and bouquets


TOURISM, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing is certainly not a typical Malaysian minister. He dares to dance and drink in public and has no qualms about shooting from the hip at critics who question his decisions or demeanour.

He is smack in the middle of another controversy again after he demoted former Malaysian Tourism Promotion Board (Tourism Malaysia) director-general Datuk Dr Ammar Abd Ghapar to the lower rank of deputy DG.

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