KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Saturday appointed three ministers to key portfolios along with a council of elders in the interim, as he grapples with the right candidates to form a full government three days after winning the election.
The new lineup, made up of leaders from his four-party coalition, includes Lim Guan Eng, who will assume the finance portfolio. Lim, an accountant by training, had been the Chief Minister of Penang, an industrial state, since 2008.
