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Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin chose to keep mum as journalists bombarded him with questions from the seventh floor of the Mercu UEM building in Kuala Lumpur right up to his car parked outside. Bombarded with questions, DPM nods and smileswww.malaysiakini.comMuhyiddin Yassin ignores a barrag …

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), in condemning the legislative amendment to the Sedition Act, has called on the government to stop using the law to threaten and persecute independent journalists. http://ow.ly/LzehG CPJ: Stop threatening independent journalistswww.malaysiakini.comCommittee …

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South East Asia Journalists Union (SEAJU) strongly criticise the increasing suppression of freedom of expression in Malaysia through the use of the Sedition Act, mostly recently in the arrest … Sedition arrests meant to create a climate of fe …

Media Prima staff from all levels, from journalists to people in the top management, have taken up the offer given under the company’s downsizing programme or mutual separation scheme. Hundreds of staff leaving news giant Media Primawww.kinibiz.comMedia Prima Bhd, the largest media group in the coun …

The Malaysian government must accord journalists the same respect as they would practitioners of other professions, says Indonesia's union of journalists. Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) president Eko Maryadi said Malaysian journalists should be allowed to carry out their duties witho …

'Academicians, journalists and even social activists are being persecuted.' Safwan slams Najib in wake of jail sentence

This is the message to journalists from a new movement against the archaic law. 'Report fearlessly, for we are behind you'