"Todayonline" Editor to b FIXED soon?

[Apollo]

(The Straits Times) - SINGAPORE newspapers should be more circumspect in treating 'allegations or innuendoes that clearly sought to damage the character and reputation' of important Malaysian personalities, said the Malaysian High Commissioner to Singapore, Datuk N. Parameswaran.

 

'I say this because I believe that it is personalities who determine the state of relations between two countries,' wrote Mr Parameswaran in a letter addressed to the Editorial Director of MediaCorp Press, which publishes the free tabloid Today.

 

Taking issue with an article in Today headlined Under Fire - the First Lady-in-waiting, Mr Parameswaran wrote:

 

'When I arrived in Singapore, Malaysia-Singapore relations were really at a low. But it was the personalities of Prime Minister Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong which made possible the positive changes that had taken place in the bilateral relations between Malaysia-Singapore.'

 

He added that since then, other personalities both in Singapore and Malaysia had 'contributed much to bringing the bilateral relations to the very warm level that we find ourselves in today'.

 

He wrote that he 'was rather perturbed' by the Today article as it carried quotes which he said 'vilified the character' of Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, the wife of Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak.

 

Madam Rosmah and her husband's names were mired in controversy when a popular blogger last month claimed that Madam Rosmah was connected to the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu.

 

Mr Parameswaran said that he had never found Madam Rosmah to be 'arrogant' or 'not as humble' as suggested by the article.

 

'In fact, Datin Seri Rosmah was always warm towards my officers and me and was always caring about our welfare,' he wrote.

 

'I would be sad if I learn next year that Dato' Seri Najib finds himself not in a position to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue which he has attended five times since its inception, or if I learn that the Najib family has decided to spend their holidays elsewhere.'

 

http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/9452/84/

 

the article

 

http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/index2....o_pdf=1&id=9288

[Leepee]

How to FIX?

He never offend the local old man what!

[Nutty]

ya... no worries la.

 

Only LEE lao pek will sue foreign media...