PETALING JAYA: A group of veteran Malaysian journalists has condemned the Israeli military’s bombardment on homes, offices and other infrastructure, including one that housed the offices of foreign media such as the Associated Press and Al-Jazeera.
The Group of Eminent Journalists said it was unthinkable that an army could target the offices of media practitioners.
“The Israeli airstrikes destroyed the Al-Jalaa Tower that housed the offices of several media organisations.
“All these actions are planned, which started with the eviction of a number of Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarra neighbourhood, the right-wing mob attacks against Palestinians, the attacks against worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the strikes against targets in Palestine, ” the group said in a statement yesterday.
PETALING JAYA: A group of veteran Malaysian journalists condemned the Israeli military’s bombardment of homes, offices and other infrastructure, including the building that housed the offices of foreign media such as The Associated Press and Al Jazeera.
KUALA LUMPUR (May 5): Media Prima Bhd has been overlooked by the market as the potential beneficiary of Disney+ Hotstar’s entry into Malaysia, according to a local research house.
In a note today, CGS-CIMB Research said much of the local content that will be added to the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service’s library is produced by Media Prima’s Primeworks Studios.
“We suspect these programmes and movies have been fully amortised since they are mostly dated content. Thus, most of the amount that Disney pays to Media Prima for the content should theoretically trickle down to the latter’s bottom line,” said its analysts Kamarul Anwar and Mohd Shanaz Noor Azam.
PUTRAJAYA (May 3): The Court of Appeal today reduced damages which Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Bhd (TV3) and the then Media Prima Bhd and Current Affairs Radio and Television group managing director Datuk Shaharudin Abdul Latif have to pay to opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for defamation.
From an amount of RM1.1 million for aggravated and exemplary damages ordered by the High Court, the three-member bench allowed TV3 and Shaharudin s appeal to reduce the quantum to a global sum of RM600,000.
The award is over the television station s defamatory report which accused the PKR president and Port Dickson member of Parliament of being one of the masterminds of the Lahad Datu incursion in Sabah in 2013.
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