Malaysiakini

online news portal published in English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil
Organization newspaper Q4918709
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Summary

Malaysiakini is a newspaper[1]. Malaysiakini ranks in the top 2% of newspaper entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (163 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Global Investigative Journalism Network[3]
  • Country: Malaysia[4]
  • Instance of: online newspaper[5]
  • Founder: Steven Gan[6]
  • Language of work or name: English[7], Malay[8], Chinese[9], Tamil[10]
  • Inception: November 20, 1999[11]
  • Official website: https://www.malaysiakini.com/[12], https://www.malaysiakini.com/my[13], https://www.malaysiakini.com/zh[14], https://malaysiaindru.my/[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Malaysiakini[16]
  • Title: Malaysiakini[17], 當今大馬[18]
  • Alexa rank: 7280[19]
  • Social media followers: 351,070[20], 300,551[21], 486,929[22], 618,320[23]

Why It Matters

Malaysiakini has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Malaysiakini is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Malaysiakini is credited with the discovery of Panama Papers[26], an information leak[27], in Panama[28].

FAQs

What did Malaysiakini discover?

Malaysiakini is credited as discoverer of Panama Papers[26].

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  17. [19] ↑ . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  1. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Language of work or name → English, Malay, Chinese +1
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