PPPA amendments get nod after much acrimony

comments     S Pathmawathy and Hazlan Zakaria     Published     Updated

Parliament adopted the amendments to the Printing, Presses and Publication Act (PPPA) at 2.15am today as BN and opposition MPs fired verbal barbs at each other in a heated atmosphere.

Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Barat) questioned the government's intentions to "truly allow for freedom of the press" dismissing the amendments to the PPPA as "mere baby steps".

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