Communications minister Fahmi Fadzil also said an internal investigation is being conducted to determine the cause of the error.

“I have instructed the ministry to begin an internal investigation to thoroughly examine this matter.

“Appropriate follow-up action will be taken if there are governance or disciplinary issues that need to be improved.

“It is important that this does not happen again.”

The errors were made by RTM’s commentators during the live broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Asean Summit meeting on Oct 26.

The Singapore prime minister was named as Lee Hsien Loong, the former prime minister, instead of Lawrence Wong.

Similarly, the Thai prime minister was named as Srettha Thavisin, who stepped down a year ago, instead of Anutin Charnvirakul, who took office last month.

A similar blunder was also made in naming the Indonesian president as Joko Widodo, instead of his successor, Prabowo Subianto.