Muda vice president Dobby Chew has mooted that an independent body should regulate print publications, instead of having the matter left to the Home Ministry.

He denounced the Printing Presses and Publications Act (PPPA) 1984 as a “cancer to democracy” that should be abolished, after the Home Ministry seized two books from the publisher Fixi yesterday for “review”.

“While there is a need for licensing and some degree of control mechanisms, they should...