{"id":68565,"date":"2015-04-13T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T02:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=68565"},"modified":"2015-04-13T10:36:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T02:36:28","slug":"the-prime-minister-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=68565","title":{"rendered":"The prime minister speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT was indeed an unprecedented move when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak appeared on TV3s interview programme Soal Jawab recently. That he chose to go on air with the countrys most watched channel is telling. What he wanted was a nationwide reach so that his answers to the criticisms levelled at his administration reached the people, leaving those who have been unfairly critical of his leadership with little room to manoeuvre; to stop them in their tracks, so to speak. He covered a veritable litany of important issues that his detractors found fault with, no matter how unjustified, like the recently passed the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) 2015, which rectified the weaknesses of the repealed Internal Security Act (ISA).<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/node\/80318\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT was indeed an unprecedented move when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak appeared on TV3s interview programme Soal Jawab recently. That he chose to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68566,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68565\/revisions\/68566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}