Exclusive: A new, more powerful Malaysia Today to come

World Futures http://wfol.tv/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=765&Itemid=9

Riau, 16th June 2009: A new Malaysia Today is being planned by Raja Petra Kamarudin or RPK as he is popularly known and this is great news for the Internet media related to Malaysia with a more newsworthy site, World Future Online is able to reveal today.

After the announcement that Raja Petra was not anymore the 'owner' of Malaysia Today, Wfol.tv inquired on the future plans of the 'enfant terrible' of the Malaysian Royalty.

We asked Raja Petra himself by email (we do send articles to MT for publication hence we have its 'Admin' email address like other blogs do have the same) on the reasons that motivated him to 'leave' MT as this was the impression given by the article on MT on Monday 15th June 2009. This is his reply to us, which is a scoop for World Future Online indeed:

"Actually I did not say I was LEAVING Malaysia Today. I said I was handing MT over to a group to manage,' he wrote.

"I plan to split MT into two. The present one would remain as it is and be more Blog-oriented. The new site would be called Malaysia Today Daily and would be a news-based site. That would be managed entirely by the new (professional) group. So the 'old' MT can remain as a 'not so credible whacking everyone' site while the new one would rank alongside Malaysiakini and Malaysian Insider," said the citizen media supremo.

The new Malaysia Today Daily will be run by a new company, Wfol.tv was told.

"We are talking to media people and ex-TV personnel to come in and run the Malaysia Today Daily," RPK added.

"I hope it will be a professional outfit, far better than the current MT," he also said.

This should put to rest all the rumors related to MT and RPK.