Time for more fresh leaders to step up and be counted

WHEN I read the news that former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had cited the Chinese’s insistence on using chopsticks as an example of the community’s reluctance to be assimilated in local culture, I thought he must have been misquoted by the media.

But when I watched a video of his press conference, I was resigned to the fact that this elder statesman had indeed committed a serious blunder.