Terminating Utusan Malaysia subscription likely cost-saving measure: Maszlee

KUALA LUMPUR: Dr Maszlee Malik said the education ministry will support any move that would save taxpayers' money, including to cease subscription of Malay daily Utusan Malaysia for all institutions of learning.
The Education Minister said while he was unaware of a memo instructing the institutions to cease subscription of the Umno mouthpiece, he sees it as a cost-cutting measure.
He added he has yet to receive information on the issuance of the memo and would have to ask Wan Saiful Wan Jan, the minister's special adviser who signed off the document.
"I will have to check first. But anyway, we are now in cost-cutting mode. There are a lot of newspapers today that we can read online.
"Any move that can save the taxpayers' money, we will support," he told reporters in parliament, here, today.
When pressed further for comment, he merely said: "I will have to ask Wan Saiful first."
Maszlee was asked to comment on the leaked memo dated July 18 instructing all schools, colleges, universities and agencies under the ministry to immediately terminate the subscription to the Umno-linked paper.
The July 18 memo was directed to the Education Ministry's secretary-general Datuk Dr Mohd Gazali Abas.