Veteran writer grabs top prize in Reader's Choice Awards


Winning words: The winners of the Popular-The Star Reader's Choice Awards 2014 are (from left) publishing representative for Tai, Boey, Chew, Zhang, Donoghue and publishing representative for Chan.

KUALA LUMPUR: Author and veteran journalist Tim Donoghue clinched the top prize in the non-fiction category of the seventh Popular-The Star Readers Choice Awards (RCA) for Karpal Singh: Tiger Of Jelutong, his book on the late lawyer and politician.

“He was more of a lawyer than a politician and ‘the tiger’ roamed and hunted in the areas of the ‘jungle’ where no one else dared to.

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