A game of hide-and-seek unraveled at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur this evening with leaders from four Chinese-based Barisan Nasional parties, who were meeting to discuss modifications to the controversial language switch, gave journalists the slip.

About 20 journalists staked out a function room in Hotel Nikko where the Chinese leaders were meeting long before it ended at 6.30pm

However, when the door was opened by a hotel staff, what greeted the journalists were 14 empty mineral water bottles on a table, with pens and notepads scattered all over.