KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 27 — Malaysia’s Home Ministry confirmed today that the suspension on news weekly The Heat has been lifted.
The Home Ministry suspended The Heat’s permission to print, saying it had violated its printing permit late last year.
“Yes, I can confirm that it (the suspension) has been lifted,” Brig Gen Fadzlette Othman Merican, press secretary to the home minister told The Malay Mail Online.
The newsweekly’s last edition was for the period of December 14 to 20 last year.
The tabloid-sized paper that started its run last year is published by Petaling Jaya-based HCK Media Group.
News reports have suggested The Heat may have got in trouble over its cover story published in November 2013.
Citing anonymous sources, news portal Malaysiakini reported the controversial article to be a report on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s spending habits, titled “All eyes on big-spending PM Najib”, published for the week of November 23-29.
Malaysiakini reported The Heat receiving a show-cause letter from the Home Ministry on December 10, with December 24 as the deadline for the paper to respond.
