Online news portal The Malaysian Digest today denied a blogger's posting that it receives a monthly funding from the Prime Minister's Department (PMD).

The denial was made by its editor Onny Izwan Nordin in an email response today.

"We vehemently deny the utterly preposterous allegation made in the blog and will offer no further comment," Onny said in his brief response.

Asked whether it would institute legal action against the blogger, he curtly replied, "not at this time".

The blog Peoples Parliament in a posting three days ago questioned the 2014 Budget allocation under the 'Facilitation' fund that includes an allocation of RM4 billion.

It cited a source as saying that the 2014 Budget for the PMD funds various news portals to disseminate pro-BN propaganda subliminally and cited The Malaysian Digest as one of those receiving aid of RM200,000 a month.

The blog further claimed that the person-in charge of running The Malaysian Digest is Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein's nephew, Onn Hafiz Ghazi.

The Malaysian Digest describes itself as a voice of reason in supporting various issues, truths and viewpoints and that its duty is to Malaysia and its people.