Happy birthday, Malaysian maverick
Newsroom legend has it that when Dr Mahathir Mohamad went under the knife following a heart attack in 1989, media organisations had scrambled to compile his obit.
A few more trips to the hospital and another heart bypass later, Mahathir continues to tick and has now crossed the peripheries that separate octogenarians from nonagenarians. He turns 90 today.
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