Abortive may have been his quest to get Malaysia to sign on to a slew of international treaties aimed at keeping the peace, but DAP national vice-chair M Kulasegaran appears to have gained some headway abroad.

After attending a Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) meeting in El Salvador earlier this month, the MP for Ipoh Barat, who is secretary of the PGA chapter in Malaysia, made a detour to nearby Guyana, on the northern tip of South America.

He was pleasantly surprised to find that the Prime Minister was a fellow Tamilian, Moses Veerasamy Nagamoothu, a veteran journalist who took office in May after a long time as the opposition leader.