{"id":11859,"date":"2021-10-02T19:29:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T11:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11859"},"modified":"2021-10-02T19:29:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T11:29:34","slug":"azalina-appointed-special-advisor-to-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11859","title":{"rendered":"Azalina appointed Special Advisor to Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0Pengerang Member of Parliament Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said has been appointed as Special Advisor (Law and Human Rights)\u00a0to the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on her Facebook page today, Azalina expressed her gratitude to Prime Minister&nbsp;Datuk Seri&nbsp;Ismail Sabri Yaakob for the trust given to her.<\/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\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24.png\" alt=\"azalina\" class=\"wp-image-11860\" width=\"461\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24.png 584w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24-187x100.png 187w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24-350x188.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank you\u00a0YAB Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob for the trust. Insya-Allah,\u00a0I will do my best for the\u00a0country,\u201d said Azalina who also shared a photo of her receiving the appointment letter from Ismail Sabri\u00a0in the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is learnt that Azalina, who is also the former Dewan Rakyat deputy speaker&nbsp;received the appointment letter from the prime minister on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She\u00a0resigned from the\u00a0post on Aug 23\u00a0to allow the government and the opposition to \u2018reset\u2019 the\u00a0Dewan Rakyat as well as for her\u00a0to carry out her duties without fear and favor of any party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=2009492\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0Pengerang Member of Parliament Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24.png",584,313,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24-300x161.png",300,161,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24.png",584,313,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24.png",584,313,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24.png",584,313,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24.png",584,313,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24.png",584,313,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24.png",584,313,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-02-at-19.27.24.png",584,313,false]},"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\/11859","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=11859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11861,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions\/11861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}