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Utusan Malaysia traces its roots to 1939 when it was first published as Utusan Melayu, with its address at Queen Street, Singapore.It was founded by several Malay Union members (including businessman Ambo Sooloh and journalists Yusof Ishak and Abdul Rahim Kajai) as a dedicated print owned by native Malayan Malays back when the Malay-language newspaper industry was dominated by Jawi Peranakans ...
Said was born in Singapore to Javanese parents. [1] He led a journalists' strike against the takeover of the newspaper by United Malays National Organisation (UMNO).. At the time Utusan Melayu, founded by Yusof Ishak, was a progressive newspaper at the time and not a government propaganda instrument.
Abdul Aziz bin Ishak (1915–1999) was a Malaysian freedom fighter, politician and journalist. Aziz was, in fact, the only member of the pre-war Kesatuan Melayu Muda (KMM) to have served in the 1955 and post-Merdeka Cabinets under Tunku Abdul Rahman.
Since July 2020, he is a columnist with Utusan Malaysia newspaper. In December 2021, he lost at least 2,000 books, many of them rare, as his extensive home library was destroyed in the flash floods that hit his home at Taman Sri Muda.
New Straits Times – Malaysia (including Georgetown (the state capital of Penang Island), Johor Bahru and Johor Bahru District)'s nationwide Malaysian English-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Malays (includes Johorean Malay and Penangite Malay), Malaysian Chinese (includes Penangite Chinese) and Tamil Malaysians community was officially first established and first published based ...
Kamaruzaman Mohamad (1961 — April 28, 2014) was a Malaysian journalist and editor for Utusan Malaysia. In 2000, Mohamad won the Kajai Award for being the first Malaysian journalist to penetrate the Militant Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf. Mohamad died on April 28, 2014, at Subang Jaya Medical Centre from a kidney ailment. [1] He was 53.
He was the member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Merbok constituency for one term, from 24 March 2004 to 8 March 2008. In 2018, he quits UMNO and be part of Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition government. He is also the former Chief Editor of Utusan Melayu-turned-fierce critic, the oldest Malay language newspaper in Malaysia.
Warta Malaya, written in Jawi alphabets, became the first Malay newspaper to directly subscribe to global news agencies. Kajai later involved himself in Warta Jenaka, a pictorial weekly, and Warta Ahad, a weekly newspaper. [1] In 1941, Warta Malaya ceased publication after it failed to compete with Utusan Melayu (now Utusan Malaysia). [7]