KUALA LUMPUR: The New Straits Times and Utusan Malaysia merger deal has been sent back to the drawing board hours after Umno president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi called for the tradition and histories of the newspapers to be maintained.
Sources said several party supreme council members voiced their concern over the deal and also the long connection between the party and Utusan Malaysia.
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