Karpal Singh congratulates Michelle Yeoh

(NST) – DAP national chairman Karpal Singh congratulated actress and Malaysia Brand Ambassador Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh for being conferred the title ‘Panglima Setia Mahkota’ by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah today.

Karpal, who is Bukit Gelugor member of parliament, said it was befitting for Yeoh, Malaysia’s own Bond girl, to received the title, which was one of the highest honours conferred by the King to mark his birthday.

“She is a Malaysian who has brought the name ‘Malaysia’ into the international scene,” he said this morning at a press conference here.

Karpal likened Yeoh’s conferment to the knighthood presented by Queen Elizabeth II to famed James Bond actor Sir Sean Connery in July 2000.

Yeoh played Chinese spy Wai Lim in the 1997 James Bond movie ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ opposite Pierce Brosnan.