KUALA LUMPUR (SIN CHEW DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has tied his handover plan to the 2020 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit.

He said Malaysia would host the summit in November next year and any change prior to that would cause havoc and therefore he would not hand over the baton to his deputy Anwar Ibrahim, before that.