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S'gor sultan buys painting of Parliament full of monkeys, apes, frogs

Selangor ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah has purchased a painting that depicts MPs as monkeys, apes, and frogs.

The work appears to be a derivative or inspired by a painting by English artist Banksy that portrays the UK Parliament as a house of chimpanzees.

In the Malaysian painting, Dewan Rakyat speaker Azhar Azizan Harun and two officers are depicted as humans.

However, politicians on both sides of the...

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