September 30, 2012
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Utusan Malaysia to Malaysiakini: Apologise
Utusan Malaysia has called upon Malaysiakini to "apologise" to all Malaysians over allegation which a headlines portal is financed by currency swindler George Soros. In Mingguan Malaysia a week end edition of Utusan Malaysia today, Awang Selamat, a pseudonym for a paper's editors, additionally asked if Malaysiakini intends to cease being "a tool of foreigners".
"With all a proof, do not insist to be an eccentric headlines portal. It is same to sharpened yourself in a foot. There is still time for (the portal) to lapse behind to a right path as this involves a government of a nation," wrote a unidentified columnist.
He blamed a alleged foreign funders for a "anti-government" stories which he claimed were supportive of antithesis personality Anwar Ibrahim. Utusan had been upon a debate running various allegations opposite Malaysiakini that embody reports of a former Malaysiakini editor YL Chong alleging a Soros couple by suggesting which a single of a portal's directors, Harlan M Mandel is a "Soros man".
However, a pro-government every day has not carried any reports upon Malaysiakini chief executive officer Premesh Chandran's clarifications as well as rebuttals of a allegations.
It has additionally not reported which former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad had made justificati! on with Soros as well as had even once asked a billionaire to support his anti-war programme Global Peace Forum.
Premesh noted which a accusations done now have been a rerun of a debate eleven years' ago which had been abundantly rebutted, as well as questioned a mainstream media for joining Mandel with Soros.
Perkasa: Mandel financed Bala meet
Meanwhile, expanding upon a Jewish conspiracy theory, Malay rights pressure organisation Perkasa has demanded Subang Jaya MP Sivarasa Rasiah as well as additionally lawyer M Puravalen to insist either their assembly upon July 2, 2008 with former in isolation investigator P Balasubramaniam as well as blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin was financed by Mandel.
Mingguan Malaysia also reported Perkasa's information arch Ruslan Kassim
alleging which Mandel as well as Soros were financing a "slander" of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.
"Malaysians have a right to know who financed this bulletin to allegation a country, government as well as its leaders," pronounced Ruslan, additionally doubt who had financed a cost of a alleged feign photograph of murdered Mongolian interpreter Altantuya Shaariibuu with Najib.
It was reported which Puravalen has denied reports done in a New Straits Times and additionally Utusan Malaysia and has sent legal letters to a dual pro-government dailies to demand an apology or face a lawsuit.
Previously, Malaysiakini has disclosed which Mandel only assimilated a portal as a executive last year after he took helm as a Media Development Loan ! Fund, a single of Malaysiakini's investors.
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