Malaysia’s armed forces made a historic move when it promoted Johnny Lim Eng Seng to lieutenant general on Monday. Lim is the first ethnic Chinese serviceman to reach the rank of a three-star senior officer.
It was a significant promotion in the country’s Malay-dominated military, which has long struggled to attract interest from among the ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indian minorities to enlist as soldiers.
Lim, who hails from Melaka state in the peninsula’s south, has been with the armed forces…
