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KL not to act against the `Times'

| Source: AFP

KL not to act against the `Times'

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Kuala Lumpur slammed the British press yesterday for "discrediting" Malaysia but decided not to act against a London-based newspaper for implicating a minister in the disappearance of a US$10,000 Standard Chartered Plc gold coin.

"We cannot change their (the British newspapers) attitude and policies and can only hope that they be more responsible and fair in their reports," Bernama news agency quoted Law Minister Syed Hamid Albar as saying after the weekly cabinet meeting.

Syed Hamid said the cabinet decided not to take libel action against the Financial Times for its July 17 report on the missing coin which had implicated Youth and Sports Minister Ghani Othman.

"The cabinet felt that British newspapers were treating press freedom as a license to discredit other countries without considering the effects," he said.

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