On May 2, the latest leg of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Lecture series took place in Kuala Lumpur and saw one of Asia’s leading public intellectuals, Kishore Mahbubani, calling Tunku one of the greatest statesmen he had never met.
The lecture series itself is deeply embedded in the country’s history. It was inaugurated by the Malaysian Institute of Management (MIM) in 1970, the very same year the man it is named in honour of was forced to step down as the first prime minister of Malaysia.
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