KUALA LUMPUR – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yesterday held a meeting with former prime minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra.
Anwar said the meeting with Thaksin, who chairs the Asean Chairman’s informal advisory group, discussed various important matters including the situation in Myanmar as well as the development of cryptocurrencies.
“In the evening, we continued this discussion with former Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo,” he said in a Facebook post.
On December 16, Anwar announced the appointment of Thaksin as an informal adviser to assist Malaysia as Asean Chair 2025.
Malaysia officially assumed the 2025 Asean Chair on Jan 1, the fifth time since the establishment of Asean in 1967.
Malaysia was previously the Chair of Asean in 1977, 1997, 2005 and 2015.
Recently, it was reported that the Thailand’s Criminal Court allowed Thaksin to travel to Malaysia for the Asean meeting, despite the former leader facing charges under the lese-majeste law and Computer Crime Act. – February 3, 2025