We apologise for factual errors made in Uncommon Sense with Wong Chin Huat: On the “Allah” judgement and in the Shape of a Pocket column entitled Wishing for another 13 May.
Corrections
August 2012
The Nut Graph Merdeka Awards 2012 (Corrected 10:54am, 27 August 2012) We had originally reported that Sze Ning became aware of the plight of indigenous communities affected by oil palm estates while she was a Wild Asia research assistant. While Sze Ning was a research assistant with Wild Asia for several years, she actually first […]
May 2012
We had originally reported that Joanne de Rozario co-hosted ntv7’s The Breakfast Show with Aishah Sinclair. There are actually two other hosts for the show, Nazrudin Rahman and Hansen Lee, that we were not informed about at the point of fact and quote checking.
We were also erroneous in saying that she is still the TV station’s head of production for the news and current affairs department.
June 2011
“There’s nothing to stop us from being Malaysian first” (Corrected 1:20pm, 7 June 2011) We had originally published that Lim was in Malacca on 13 May 1969. Lim, however, subsequently alerted us that although he campaigned and stood for election in Malacca, he had flown to Sabah by 13 May. He also added that elections […]
April 2011
Umno’s tangle over “Allah” (Corrected at1:55pm, 1 April 2011) WE had originally published that the High Court lifted the government’s ban against the Catholic church from using “Allah” in its weekly publication Herald in December 2008, and the government filed an appeal against the ruling in January 2009. However, the High Court lifted the ban […]
January 2011
TO the question about which story about his ancestry was accurate, Datuk Seri Nazir Razak replied that he thought it was the “later” one, not “latter” one which was originally published.
October 2010
We inadvertently used the acronym “Atif” instead of “Atip” for the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act. We apologise for the typo.
September 2010
Student activism: The struggle continues (Corrected 6:15pm, 4 Sept 2010) IN our original subheading for Jonah’s interview, we wrote that Jonah, aka Khairul Anuar Ahmad Zainuddin, attended Institute Kemahiran Mara in late 1990s. He actually attended UPM in the late 90s and Institute Kemahiran Mara in the early 2000s. In the same interview, Jonah originally […]
August 2010
“Syariah court has no legitimacy for non-Muslims” (Corrected 11.35am, 25 Aug 2010) We wrongly published this quote “Although the Latifah Mat Zin case was pointed out to the Court of Appeal, it appears that the court chose to overlook it.” Lawyer K Shanmuga had asked for it to be removed in the quote check because […]
July 2010
World Cup (Corrected 1.30pm, 2 July 2010) We wrongly identified Italy’s Fabio Cannavaro as a goalkeeper. He is defender and team captain.
