Smackdown for Rosmah: Curtin withdraws use of the term FLOM in tradeoff with critics

‘first lady’ 

In a move bound to knock the wind out of the sails of Prime Minister Najib Razak's wife, Australia's Curtin University has apologized for referring to her as the First Lady of Malaysia, which according to the country's constitution is a title reserved for the Queen.

Curtin had made the mistake when it issued an honorary doctorate to the unpopular Rosmah Mansor. Although it did not say so, the university certainly got more than it bargained for when it recently awarded an honorary doctorate to her. Complaints flooded its Facebook page and the university was even accused of trying to gain favor or had accepted some form of bribe or other to grant Rosmah the PhD, and address her as the  First Lady of Malaysia.