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        "msgid": "mass-lay-off-a-warning-to-journalists-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-01-16 00:00:00",
        "title": "'Mass lay-off a warning to journalists'",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "'Mass lay-off a warning to journalists' MALAYSIA: Rights groups on Tuesday voiced concern that the mass lay-off of some 40 staff by The Sun newspaper could be a warning to journalists to toe the line. The English-language daily, which hit the streets in early 1994 and has a circulation of 70,000, on Friday laid off 41 journalists and editorial employees as well as a library staff. It cited economic difficulties and a need to scale down manpower as its reason for the exercise.",
        "content": "<p>'Mass lay-off a warning to journalists'<\/p>\n<p>MALAYSIA: Rights groups on Tuesday voiced concern that the mass<br>\nlay-off of some 40 staff by The Sun newspaper could be a warning<br>\nto journalists to toe the line.<\/p>\n<p>The English-language daily, which hit the streets in early<br>\n1994 and has a circulation of 70,000, on Friday laid off 41<br>\njournalists and editorial employees as well as a library staff.<\/p>\n<p>It cited economic difficulties and a need to scale down<br>\nmanpower as its reason for the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>But rights group Suaram said The Sun's move was \"unlawful,<br>\nunscrupulous and in bad faith\".<\/p>\n<p>It said this was a \"clear calculated move of union busting\" as<br>\nall key office bearers of the local journalist union had been<br>\nsacked and the human resources ministry was not notified.<\/p>\n<p>The sackings followed government criticism of a front-page<br>\nstory published on Christmas Day claiming that Prime Minister<br>\nMahathir Mohamad and his deputy Abdullah Ahmad Badawi were the<br>\ntargets of a murder plot. --AFP<\/p>",
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