Gov't ordered to pay additional RM500k in damages to The Edge

The Home Ministry and its secretary-general are ordered to pay RM500,000 in exemplary damages on top of the existing RM11.2 million they must pay to The Edge Communications Sdn Bhd.

This was the outcome when the Kuala Lumpur High Court partly allowed a bid by the publishing firm for exemplary damages over the ministry's 2015 three-month suspension order against The Edge Weekly and The Edge Financial Daily...