As Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim prepares on Thursday to take over as prime minister, one of his recent comments serves to sum up the persistence that secured him the job he has eyed for three decades.

Malaysia's current monarch swore in Anwar Ibrahim as PM on Thursday. Ibrahim, 75, had been deputy PM and finance minister for much of the 1990s. Was imprisoned in 1998 on sodomy charges after ...

Islam is Malaysia’s official religion and all Malays, who make up two-thirds of the country’s 33m people, are by law Muslim. Many Malays consider Mr Anwar (who is Malay) too liberal.