Yap was a helpful and humble person, say ex-colleagues


PETALING JAYA: The local media industry lost a veteran when Star Media Group’s (SMG) former business editor Yap Leng Kuen (pic) passed away following a bacterial infection.

Her son Andrew Chong, 29, said his mother had been hospitalised since Thursday last week and succumbed to complications and breathing difficulties at Prince Court Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur yesterday morning.

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