Malaysiakini

"Launched on November 20th, 1999, Malaysiakini.com offers between 20 to 30 items of news, opinions, editorials, features and letters a day. Since its launch, the website become the leading source of independent news and views on Malaysia. It currently attracts over 50,000 visits a day and over three million page views a month." 

"Malaysiakini.com is owned and operated by Mkini Dotcom Sdn Bhd, a private limited company incorporated in July 1999. Mkini is a digital media company, focusing on Internet and other interactive media technology and information services." 

The US Government (USG) notes that "In support of press freedom, we sponsored visits to the U.S. for several key journalists, who returned with a keen awareness of the challenges and benefits of media free from government control. Recently, when police seized the computers of Malaysia’s most independent media outlet, the on-line newspaper Malaysiakini, USG officers reached out to Malaysiakini journalists (a number of whom have been USG grantees) to demonstrate U.S. support for its continued operations." 

Contact
No. 48, Jalan Kemuja Bangsar Utama 59000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: 03-2283 5567 Web: http://www.malaysiakini.com