Bernama pioneer Abdul Wahab Abdul Majid dies

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KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Datuk Abdul Wahab Abdul Majid, a pioneer of the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama), passed away early Sunday (Nov 30), just one day short of his 90th birthday.

, a pioneer of the Malaysian National News Agency , passed away early Sunday , just one day short of his 90th birthday.

He returned to Kuala Lumpur in 1954 and joined the Chinese daily Nanyang Siang Pau, where he wrote in English and the news was translated into Mandarin. Musa Scully, the pioneering chief reporter with Bernama, recalled Abdul Wahab that helped establish the newsroom, including the intake of the pioneering batch of Bernama reporters.

Meanwhile, Khalid, when contacted by Bernama, said Abdul Wahab's demise is a great loss to the country's journalism fraternity. Meanwhile Abdul Wahab’s daughter, Adlina, 61, said her father was happy to see the success achieved by Bernama since its establishment and the total transformation it had gone through in the digital era.

"The angiogram carried out showed that the function of his heart was deteriorating. At 1am Sunday, his health was getting worse before he was confirmed dead, ” he said.

 

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