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Info Dept streamlining media accreditation card procedures, validity periods

The Information Department is streamlining procedures for the approval and issuance of media accreditation cards, including the validity period.

Info Dept to use journalists’ code of ethics for media card approvals: Fahmi

The 1989 edition of the code of ethics, developed by the Malaysian Press Institute, has been used for the same purpose since then.

Requirements for media pass need review, says Teo Nie Ching

The requirements for obtaining Information Department (JaPen) media accreditation need to be reviewed as currently, some segments of the media seem to be partisan, which is against the principle of fairness and impartiality.

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