JEDDAH: Johor Darul Ta'zim's (JDT) hopes of becoming the first Malaysian club to reach the AFC Champions League (ACL) Elite semi-finals were dashed after a narrow 1-2 defeat to defending champions Al-Ahli on Friday (April 17).
PETALING JAYA: She’s one of the few female ambassadors , but Datuk Dr Shazelina Zainul Abidin , New York , and Senegal . Citing 2022 statistics, she said Malaysia has about 24% of women holding positions of ambassadors and above.
This included the heads of divisions and departments in the Foreign Ministry who would be eligible to be posted abroad as ambassadors. Malaysia has 106 diplomatic missions which include embassies, high commissions and consulates. “That does not mean we are in 106 countries. We are in 84 countries, at the last count. Some countries have more than two diplomatic offices; in Canada we have the High Commission in Ottawa, and the Consulate General’s office in Vancouver.” She said that there are more than 30 female ambassadors in Canada where she has been elected as the Chair of the Women Heads of Diplomatic Missions.“You get to dress up all the time!” she quipped.“Once you have established that, you gain the respect of the people around you,” said Shazelina, who has a degree in law and politics from Queen Mary College, University of London; and a PhD in political science from the University of Sheffield. Shazelina has some wise words for women who feel they are at a disadvantage because they are dismissed as “fluff”.Her passion for writing is obvious, too. Once, she kept a blog about her nomadic life, posting informative bits about diplomatic passports , and what she did as a liaison officer who had to shadow Queen Elizabeth II during her 1998 visit to Malaysia.“The golden rule is that once you have accepted a dinner invitation, you MUST go. Unless you’re lying on a mortuary slab,” she wrote.During her two years at the University of Sheffield, she decided to give classes. “Very few Malaysians would volunteer to teach while doing their PhD. But I thought it would give me something to do.” “So I taught Contemporary US Foreign Policy to second-year university students. It was a hoot – a Malaysian teaching British students about US foreign policy!”
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