New Malaysian envoy joins office

The newly appointed Malaysian High Commissioner in Dhaka Norlin Binti Othman began her diplomatic assignment in Bangladesh through presenting credentials to the president on August 27.
Prior to her appointment as ambassador in Bangladesh, Norlin Binti Othman was the consul general of Malaysia in Medan, Indonesia.
Born in October 1958 in Kuala Lumpur, she joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia in 1982 after graduating in economics from the University of Malaya.
She has served in various capacities in the ministry and Malaysian missions abroad. In the ministry, she served in the Human Resources Management Division, Americas & Europe Political Division, South East Asia Political Division, and Finance Division.
Her overseas postings were as second secretary at the Malaysian High Commission in Ottawa, counselor at the Malaysian Permanent Mission to the United Nations, and deputy high commissioner in New Delhi.
An alumnus of Convent Bukit Nenas School in Kuala Lumpur, she has a diploma in Public Management from the Institute of Public Administration Malaysia (INTAN) and MA (Foreign Affairs and Trade) from Monash University, Australia.
Norlin is married to Zakaria Haji Idris and blessed with one son.