GEORGE TOWN: Faced with mounting pressure from the media fraternity, the Penang Government finally relented by sacking a voluntary patrol unit (PPS) member who assaulted a journalist covering an apparent suicide case.
The state government caved in after more than 200 media practitioners, unhappy over the three-month suspension meted out to Lim Ah Chye, called for the vigilante’s expulsion from the PPS.
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