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with an emphasis towards Klang Valley news in 2008 but that too failed. The newspaper was then sold to a group of businessmen led by Dato' Siew Ka Wei of the Ancom Group of Companies in 2012. It also marked Siew's entry into the media world by setting up the Redberry Media Group with advertising
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The newspaper used to be an afternoon edition which focused on local happenings and was promoted as "The Paper That Cares". It was common to find local community news making the headlines. A major example of this was the People's Live Telecast Fund, a public donation drive organised in June 1982
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The newspaper's circulation slid from its peak of over 60,000 in the mid-1980s. Advertising revenue has kept in step, plummeting to RM10 million annually from its peak of RM70 million in 1997. Advertising revenue has since been declining and the business has been reporting losses.
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assets at airports, buses, cinemas and billboards. Malay Mail shares some common shareholders with Redberry and Ancom. Besides Siew, the other directors of Malay Mail are Tan Sri Mohd Al Amin Abdul Majid and Datuk Rocky. In 2013, the Malay Mail Online website (
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introduced the publishing of two versions of the newspaper – a tabloid-size daily along with the broadsheet format. This signalled their intention to go head-on with The Star which printed tabloid-sized newspapers. The senior reporters from the
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Media Prima Berhad relaunched the Malay Mail on 5 May 2006 as a free afternoon paper but still failed to overturn its losses. It was then sold to Datuk Ibrahim Mohd Nor of Blue Inc who tried a free model under the stewardship of Datuk 'Rocky'
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In the early stages of 2005, plans were unveiled to change the direction of the paper and offered voluntary separation scheme to senior writers and journalists of the
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announced that it will cease its print operations on 1 December 2018 and go fully digital on 2 December 2018.
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A strategic decision was made by the NSTP Berhad to focus on only one English newspaper, which was the
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offered huge discounts to property agents and car dealers – the ones most affected by the crisis. The
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losing its position as the leading classifieds newspaper. Once readers moved,
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could not, or would not, offer such rebates – which prompted a shift to
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D'Cruz, Frankie (13 June 2015). "Ordinary royals, extrordinary lives".
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was facing increasing competition from another daily newspaper,
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massive circulation ensured that they would stay, and the
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totalling RM300,000 for 5 telecast; each broadcast was
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In 2018, the website was revamped and relaunched as
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