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Ministry to ensure tabling of Media Council Bill in March

28 Jul 2023 04:18pm
Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil (middle) and his deputy Teo Nie Ching at the launching of Allo’s Rahmah Fixed Broadband Package, today. - Photo by Bernama
Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil (middle) and his deputy Teo Nie Ching at the launching of Allo’s Rahmah Fixed Broadband Package, today. - Photo by Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR - The Communications and Digital Ministry will ensure that the bill for the establishment of the Malaysian Media Council (MMC) can be tabled in Parliament no later than the March session next year.

Its deputy minister, Teo Nie Ching in her official Facebook post today said the matter was decided yesterday in a meeting, chaired by Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil, to further discuss the bill.

"This is our (ministry's) commitment among other efforts to ensure the welfare of media practitioners is maintained and that information received by every level of society is better authenticated so that it will indirectly not disrupt the harmony in the country.

"We in the ministry welcome Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's mandate to ensure press freedom

is uplifted and strengthened as one of the efforts to deal with all the malicious lies and fake news that can cause division in society," she said.

Anwar when announcing the Madani Economy: Empowering the People initiative, here yesterday, said the government will continue to uphold and empower the freedom of the press to provide the people with fair and accurate information and news. - BERNAMA

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