Like father, like son: Retired pioneer staff Siva and his son Vijayakumar, now a printing technician, inside the press control room at Star Northern Hub in Bayan Lepas. Siva is holding a printing plate and on the left is the test print chute where technicians can get a copy while the machines print a total of 130,000 copies per hour.
Siva Subramaniam feels proud to have been there when ‘The Star’ was born.
Where The Star is concerned, S. Siva Subramaniam is a man who can say he has seen it all – its conception, long-awaited birth, difficult childhood, confident adolescence and blossoming adulthood. Siva’s tie with the little-newspaper-in-Penang-that-could can be traced back to his days as a 14-year-old messenger boy to Choong Kok Swee, known to everyone as K.S. Choong (1920-1987).
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