While green activists in Peninsular Malaysia are protesting the rare earth refinery that has yet to begin operations in Gebeng, Pahang, villagers living near an aluminium smelting plant in Balingian, Mukah, Sarawak, have been suffering in silence. How is the plant affecting the lives of local communities in Balingian? Should we be alarmed at plans for new plants?
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Ann Lee: Both English and Chinese
FOR six years up to the year 2000, Ann Lee was beamed into Malaysian households three times a week as an RTM co-anchor for the 8pm news on TV2. She was also a newsreader on RTM’s Radio Four, making her a recognisable face and voice over the Malaysian airwaves. “People sometimes still come up to […]
Protesting RTM’s censorship
A DEMONSTRATION was held on 19 May 2010 outside RTM headquarters Angkasapuri in Kuala Lumpur calling for media freedom and to protest the termination of former RTM producer Chou Z Lam. Chou alleges that his documentary over the impact of the Bakun Dam on indigenous people in Sarawak was cancelled because of RTM’s leadership’s fears […]
Controlling the media
(TV pic by Frecuencia; remote control pic by Lusi; source: sxc.hu) JUST before Datuk Seri Najib Razak became Malaysia’s sixth prime minister on 3 April 2009, I was asked by a Malaysiakini reporter whether I thought there would be further media restrictions under his administration. Some sectors of society imagined, rightly or wrongly, that Najib […]
Special panel to improve radio, TV shows
KUALA LUMPUR, 14 May 2009: The Information, Communications and Culture Ministry will be setting up a special panel which will also have non-governmental organisations representatives to improve radio and television shows to ensure the success of the 1Malaysia concept. Its minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said the contents industry now received mostly material and […]
Serving the BN
“I will be looking at the role of television and radio stations in nation building. There are 34 radio stations under the government.” INFORMATION, Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim, who blamed the Barisan Nasional (BN)’s recent poor elections performance on private television and radio stations that did not “carry messages good […]
Review plan to reschedule Tamil news
IPOH, 20 April 2009: Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk T Murugiah has called on Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) to review its plan to broadcast the Tamil news over TV2 at 6pm, starting today. He said RTM should study the plan thoroughly as the decision would affect most of its Indian Malaysian viewers. […]
No plan to censor MPs’ remarks in parliament
KUALA LUMPUR, 6 April 2009: The Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) has no plan to censor words uttered by members of Parliament during the live telecast of the Dewan Rakyat debate sessions, Information Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek said today. As such, he said, RTM had no plan to air delayed telecast of the debate sessions […]
RTM launches Disaster Unit
KUALA LUMPUR, 30 Dec 2008: Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) today launched a Disaster Unit to broadcast the latest report on disasters through television and radio stations. The unit will disseminate information on the weather, earthquakes, landslides, floods, haze, storms, river levels, sea conditions, tides and other disasters. Information Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek said the […]
Song deemed unsuitable for broadcast by RTM
KUALA LUMPUR, 23 Dec 2008: Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) today clarified that it only approved for broadcast, songs that contain moral values and use decent language, besides technical aspects that have been agreed upon by the evaluation panel. “Songs sent in by individuals or recording companies to be aired come under the purview of RTM’s […]
