There await plenty more episodes to watch around the demise of UMNO's power couple. A thousand cover-ups to be unravelled and billions of dollars to be unearthed - handbags, diamonds, will all come tumbling out. But, the danger is now over - Najib is gone.....
The Sarawak Report and Medium are now accessible again after being barred by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission for more than two years.
In July 2015, the MCMC blocked access to the Sarawak Report on grounds that it undermines the stability of the nation.
MCMC said the website was blocked under Section 211 and 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 following complaints that it was posting unsubstantiated information.
The complaints were regarding its coverage surrounding embattled sovereign investment fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MBD), with MCMC adding that the website would remain blocked until the special task force on 1MBD completed its investigations.
The Sarawak Report then started uploading its content to publishing platform Medium, resulting in the latter also being blocked by the MCMC in January 2016.
Though MCMC made announcements on its Facebook page when blocking these sites, no announcement has been made on why the sites have been unblocked. We have reached out to MCMC for comments.
We have added some animation to our map of the Baram Dam to better illustrate the scope its construction would cause sarawakreport.org/baram/map
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It would appear that the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission has lifted the internet blocks on both Medium and The Sarawak Report. While there has been no official word on the matter, both sites are once again accessible in Malaysia.
The MCMC had originally blocked The Sarawak Report in 2015 for posting reports about 1MDB. The news portal had been told to take down its stories and stop reporting on the matter, but declined to heed the warnings of the commission.
The Sarawak Report then started mirroring its content to the anonymous blogging site Medium; which was subsequently blocked wholesale by the MCMC in 2016.
As it stands the new Pakatan Harapan seems to have ordered the sites unblocked, now allowing visitors to freely read the content.
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