BREAKING NEWS!

Source : The Star, 24 April 2008

Thursday April 24, 2008 MYT 4:55:43 PM

Makkal Osai back on the stands on Saturday

By TEH ENG HOCK

PETALING JAYA: Tamil daily Makkal Osai will be back on the newsstands this Saturday.

General manager S.M. Periasamy said the Home Ministry had renewed its publishing licence after the publication had appealed its earlier decision.

The newspaper ceased publication for a week after it failed to obtain a renewal on April 16.

Periasamy said he had received the approval letter from the Home Ministry on Thursday, and paid the RM3,000 fee for the licence.

“The Ministry called me on Wednesday at about 5.30pm to tell me that it had approved our licence,” he said.

The newspaper started operations as Tamil Osai in 1981, and changed its name to Makkal Osai in 2005. It has a daily circulation of 52,000 copies and 95,000 on weekends.

Makkal Osai submitted an application for renewal on July 16, 2007, three months before its permit expired on Oct 15 last year.

The day its permit expired, the daily continued publication with the understanding that the Government was in the process of considering its application for renewal.

Besides Makkal Osai, the other two Tamil dailies are Tamil Nesan and Malaysia Nanban.