Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim faced calls to step down in July, but mediating the Cambodia-Thailand conflict was his trump card, says political analyst James Chai. KUALA LUMPUR: In politics, as in opera, nothing is over till the fat lady sings. Perhaps no one knows this better than seasoned politician and Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. The Anwar administration has been under both internal and external pressure. Controversy surrounded the government’s failure to fill vacancies