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PETALING JAYA: Tan Sri Devaki Krishnan, the country’s first woman to be elected into public office, has entered the Malaysia Book of Records – 70 years after achieving that feat.
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COMMENT | DAP's Chinese debate is larger than its party Modified2:35 am - COMMENT | Very few people in this country would have the privilege of being handpicked by Onn Jaafar to run as an election candidate. And no one but one woman could say that she has the privilege of being the first female elected official in the country - only Devaki Krishnan. “Onn wanted me to contest because I was a teacher and was known in my community,” she said. Devaki was popular in Brickfields, the constituency (Bangsar) she would contest. Every election that returned her as a winner saw her given a “princ...