The promised review of the Official Secrets Act (OSA) and to incorporate a Freedom of Information (FOI) provision within the Act will be the best gift by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to all Malaysians, if it does not remain lip service.
Although the media overall enjoys more freedom today, there was a time not too long ago when newspaper editors and publishers used to worry every December whether the printing licence will be renewed by the Home Ministry the following year