KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 -- Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has denied that he has plans to carry out a Cabinet reshuffle soon although he admitted that it is a huge challenge working with inexperienced Cabinet members.

The Langkawi MP said he must continue to strive and work together with his handpicked ministers, adding that some of them are promising despite being new.

"That is a major problem also. We have inexperienced people in the government now. I think anyone who is inexperienced will have experienced the same problems that they (new ministers) have," he told the business weekly, Focus Malaysia, in an interview in Langkawi.

"If I go around discharging and replacing them, it is not going to help.

"I have to try and, well,...