From Norman Fernandez In the 1950s, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, was infamously dubbed the “Paris of Malaya”. The moniker stemmed not from romance or fashion, but from a booming, widespread prostitution industry, just as Paris then was globally notorious for red-light districts. PAS has been ruling Kelantan continuously for 36 years, maintaining an unbroken hold on the state government since it won the state election in October 1990. While Kota Bharu h…
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