Portfolios will be assigned to the Perak state executive councillors only after all 10 of them have been appointed, new Menteri Besar Saarani Mohamad said today.

Getting the already-appointed five councillors to take charge of more than one portfolio will stretch their resources and weaken the administration, he told a press conference after chairing a state executive council meeting at Bangunan Perak Darul Ridzuan...