Asean meets in an uncertain world

Busy abroad: Mohamad delivering a speech during the AMM last year. The minister has had to put his campaigning in the Negri Sembilan elections on hold to attend this year’s meeting in the Philippines beginning tomorrow. — Filepic/AP

FROM small-town Rantau to metropolitan Manila, Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan has to temporarily abandon his campaign trail right after nomination day for the Negri Sembilan election.

He is putting on a different hat for the next two days.