Online Safety Bill to mandate three key duties of social media platform providers
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 — The Online Safety Bill 2024 will require social media platform providers to comply with three main responsibilities — ensuring platform...
Comms Ministry to ensure no media practitioners left out of govt initiatives
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 — The Communications Ministry is committed to ensure no media practitioners in the country are marginalised from obtaining initiatives introduced by...
Companies found selling govt Internet projects to third parties — Minister
PUTRAJAYA, Sept 20 — Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil has revealed that some companies were found to have sold the Internet development and upgrade projects they...
Leaders rally Malaysians with messages of unity, patriotism for Malaysia Day
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 — Deputy Prime Ministers Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof, along with other Cabinet members, today extended...
Minister advises social media platforms to have multilingual ‘content moderator’
KULAI, Sept 7 — The Communications Ministry advises that a social media platform should have content moderators who can understand various languages, especially local languages...
Govt mulls classifying social media platforms as public utilities amid rising cybercrime
PETALING JAYA, Sept 3 — The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) removed 32,676 fraud and scam content between January and August 15, an increase from 6,297 in...
MCMC to engage social media platform providers this month
KULAI, Sept 1 — The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) will hold an engagement session with social media platform providers this month to discuss...
Comms Ministry gives RM13 mln to support Tamil creative industry practitioners
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 — The Communications Ministry today announced an allocation of RM13 million for Tamil creative industry practitioners through the Creative Content Fund...
MCMC to launch internet safety campaign
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 — The Communications Ministry, through the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), will launch a National Online Safety Awareness Campaign, said...
Malaysia set to achieve RM3.6 bln revenue in data centre field by 2025
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 7 — Malaysia’s target to achieve a revenue of RM3.6 billion by 2025 in the data centre industry is on track, judging...
‘Social media licensing to hold platform providers accountable, curb cybercrime’
GEORGE TOWN, July 28 — Licensing under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 is to hold all social media platform providers accountable, tighten standard operating...
Only 30 pct of Jendela telco towers up, operating nationwide — Deputy minister
KULAI, July 19 — Only 30 per cent of the 1,661 telecommunications (telco) towers under the National Digital Network (Jendela) project have been completed and...