INTERVIEW | In Parliament, there is a particular seat which veteran lawmaker Lim Kit Siang is all too familiar with - the corner seat nearest to the speaker’s left reserved for the opposition leader.

Lim has been a 10-term opposition MP and he was elected six times by his peers to take that very seat, which is a record in the country’s history.

For the upcoming session of Parliament, he will be sitting on the government bench - on the speaker’s right - now that Pakatan Harapan has won the election and ousted BN from federal power...