The police have been asked to stop their "silly action and harassment" of a restaurant on mainland Penang for displaying Mao Zedong artwork and caricatures.

PKR assemblyperson Gooi Hsiao Leung found it "unbelievably moronic and idiotic" of Umno supreme council member Mohd Razlan Rafii to call for stern action to be taken against the so-called “communist movement” in Penang.

Razlan said the matter is a threat to...