Headline Remove restrictions on Mandarin news program, RTM urged MediaTitle Borneo Post (KK) Date 02 Nov 2015 Language English Circulation 89,224 Readership 267,672 Section Home Color Black/white Page No 7 ArticleSize 166 cm² AdValue RM 463 PR Value RM 1,388 Remove restrictions on Mandarin news program. RTM urged KUALA LUMPUR: Student they said. groups yesterday urged RTM's News portal Malaysiakini management to remove all reported yesterday that RTM's • restrictions oij the Mandarin Mandarin news bulletins have news desk that were purportedly largely resumed back to normal, implemented as punishment for with the visuals and Chinese using an unflattering picture of captions and headlines returning Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib in the news programme at noon. Razak. Thesetup of the news programme, University of Malaya Association however, has reportedly been of New Youth (UMANY) and New revamped, with the news anchor Era Students Union and Student now in the centre frame and the Progressive JjJront UUM (SPFUUM) removal of slides of the news being said the government­owned read from the background. • broadcaster was suppressing press On Saturday, Oriental Daily ' freedom, stressing that the media reported MCA deputy president should be free from government Datuk Wee Ka Siong as saying that influence. Communications and Multimedia "[We] strongly oppose the action Minister Salleh Said Keruak has of the authority, which pimpled issued the necessary instructions on press freedom and abused the to the Mandarin news programme media's neutrality," the groups said to be restored as before. in a joint statement. On Tuesday, RTM's Mandarin The student groups also cried foul news programme aired an over the purported replacement unflattering photograph of of Chinese headlines with Malay Najib during its 8pm broadcast, ones in RTM's Mandarin news reportedly by mistake. programme. The image, which was produced "... the use of mother tongue is by Malaysiakini, showed Najib fully protected by our constitution looking down solemnly, with and all of RTM's instructions a collage of other photographs have clearly shown that RTM related to IMalaysia Development disregarded the constitution and Berhad (1MDB) in the background, disrespected the use of mother including a picture of Penang­born tongue of other ethnic [groups]," billionaire Jho Low..