Weekly The Heat suspended indefinitely by Home Ministry

The issue of 'The Heat' magazine which got its publishers into trouble with the Home Ministry. – December 19, 2013.Newsweekly The Heat has been suspended “indefinitely” by the Home Ministry, believed to be over a front-page article on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor’s expenditure, sources said.

The weekly had been issued a show-cause letter last week. Editor-in-chief David Lee Boon Siew had also been summoned to the Home Ministry in Putrajaya and told to tone down its reports.

The Malaysian Insider understands that although the show-cause letter did not specify the offending article, it was over a report entitled “All eyes on big-spending PM Najib” published in its November 23 to 29 issue.

It is believed that HCK Media, the publisher, had been given 14 days to reply to the show-cause letter. – December 19, 2013.

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