ZAHARI Affandi and Shamsuddin Abu Bakar live hardly a kilometre away from each other in Bangi. Since they left Utusan Melayu 35 years ago, they have never met.
Zahari left earlier than Shamsud-din. He joined another newspaper group while Shamsuddin became a press officer to a minister.
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