{"id":11113,"date":"2021-08-27T16:16:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11113"},"modified":"2021-08-27T16:16:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T08:16:52","slug":"nine-women-in-new-cabinet-two-with-new-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11113","title":{"rendered":"Nine women in new cabinet, two with new portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27&nbsp; &#8212;&nbsp; Nine women leaders have been appointed as members of the new Malaysian&nbsp;Cabinet under the leadership of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ismail Sabri, when announcing his cabinet line-up today, said\u00a0five of them were appointed as ministers, namely\u00a0\u00a0Datuk Seri Rina Mohd Harun (Women, Family, and Community Development Minister);\u00a0Datuk Dr. Noraini Ahmad (Higher Education Minister);\u00a0Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri (Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister) and Datuk Halimah Mohamed Sadique (National Unity Minister).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin takes on the portfolio of Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-16.13.07.png\" alt=\"women\" class=\"wp-image-11114\" width=\"495\" height=\"271\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those appointed as deputy ministers are\u00a0Datuk Siti Zailah Mohd Yusoff at the Women,\u00a0Family and Community Development Ministry; Datuk Hanifah Hajar Taib (Prime Minister\u2019s Department in charge of Sabah and Sarawak Affairs); Datuk Mastura\u00a0Mohd Yazid (Prime Minister\u2019s Department &#8211;\u00a0Special Functions).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, former Deputy Entrepreneur Development and Cooperative&nbsp;Minister Datuk Mas Ermieyati Samsuddin&nbsp;is now Deputy Minister at the Prime Minister\u2019s Department (Parliament and Law).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/\">NMT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27&nbsp; &#8212;&nbsp; Nine women leaders have been appointed as members of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nation","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsium-slider-full":"","newsium-featured":"","newsium-medium":""},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11115,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11113\/revisions\/11115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}