Utusan advances staff RM2,000 each to 'ease burden'

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This comes a day after 100 current and former staff staged a protest claiming they have not been paid for one-and-a-half months. FMTNews

There is speculation that Utusan Malaysia may finally be rolling out its last print edition tomorrow after 80 years.

“We hope that with the advance, it will help alleviate your current financial burden,” the circular, issued by human resource manager Mohd Nazlan Osman said. During its heyday in the 1990s, the paper’s circulation peaked at 350,000 copies a day and it was one of the largest selling newspapers in the country.

 

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