Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
thestar.com.my. Star Media Group Berhad (doing business as The Star; MYX: 6084) is an English-language newspaper in Malaysia. Based in Petaling Jaya, it was established in 1971 as a regional newspaper in Penang. It is the largest paid English newspaper in terms of circulation in Malaysia, [3] according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. [4]
t. e. Operation Lalang (Malay: Operasi Lalang, also called Ops Lalang and taken to mean "Operation Weeding") was a major crackdown undertaken by the Royal Malaysian Police from 27 October to 20 November 1987, ostensibly to prevent the occurrence of racial riots in Malaysia. The operation saw the arrest of 106 to 119 people—political activists ...
The Star – Malaysia (including Georgetown (the state capital of Penang Island), Johor Bahru and Johor Bahru District)'s largest and number one nationwide Malaysian English-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Malays (includes Johorean Malay and Penangite Malay), Malaysian Chinese (includes Penangite Chinese) and Tamil Malaysians ...
46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. Website. www.malaymail.com. The Malay Mail is an online newspaper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, first published on 1 December 1896 when Kuala Lumpur was the capital of the then new Federated Malay States, making it the first daily newspaper to appear in the FMS. In December 2018, it ceased printing after ...
1167649590. Website. nst.com.my. The New Straits Times is an English-language newspaper published in Malaysia. It is Malaysia's oldest newspaper still in print (though not the first), [3] having been founded as a local offshoot of Singapore-based The Straits Times on 15 July 1845. It was renamed as the New Straits Times on 13 August 1974.
Censorship is a long term issue in Malaysia which has become more apparent as it attempts to adapt to a modern knowledge-based economy. [1] Despite having in its Federal Constitution that subject to certain conditions, "every citizen has the right to freedom of speech and expression" (), Malaysia has consistently sat low on global indexes related to press and media freedom.
In the 1971, The Star began publication and had once worked together with Kwong Wah Yit Poh. However, the newspaper continued to make losses, and The Star became independent from Kwong Wah Yit Poh. The Star became a national daily newspaper in 1976, but the headquarters relocated to Kuala Lumpur in 1978 and then Petaling Jaya in 1981.
t. e. The 2014 Malaysian sedition dragnet was a campaign by the government of Malaysia where several citizens were arrested and charged for allegedly making seditious statements in contravention of Section 4 of the Sedition Act 1948. The term "sedition dragnet" is widely used by the Malaysian media to describe the campaign.