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Chin Koon Siang  
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 More options 28 Apr 2006, 07:32
From: Chin Koon Siang <koonsi...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:32:24 +0800
Local: Fri 28 Apr 2006 07:32
Subject: Re: [sangkancil] Veteran journalist MGG Pillai dies
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The last of the Mohicans.
My regret and what a loss to Malaysia.
Unfortunately I am in East Malaysia.  Anyone who can attend please  
pass on my condolences to those left behind.
What a greater tragedy that many other Malaysians would not mourn his  
passing.
Now we only have NST and The Star to read.

On 28 Apr 2006, at 1:27 PM, gnh wrote:

>  Veteran journalist MGG Pillai dies

> Veteran journalist MGG Pillai dies

> Apr 28, 06 12:24pm

> The doyen of Malaysian journalism, MGG Pillai, passed away this  
> morning at the Universiti Hospital due to heart complications.

> According to his son Sreejit Pillai, the veteran newsman who  
> pioneered Malaysia's online journalism, died at 10.40am.

> Pillai, 67, began his career in journalism in the 1960s. He had  
> also served as a war correspondent during the Vietnam War.

> He was expelled from Singapore for his reporting while he was  
> stationed in the city-state.

> He later joined the Malay Mail.

> For the past 10 years, Pillai had taken to the Internet to pursue  
> his craft. He was instrumental in the launch of discussion group  
> Sangkancil in 1995 - Malaysia's first online community - and more  
> recently his own website, MGGPillai.com.

> Pillai was a Malaysiakini columnist since the online news website  
> was launched six years ago and till the end took his commitment  
> very seriously.

> Despite being admitted to the hospital on Tuesday, he insisted on  
> calling Malaysiakini that morning to say that his Chiaroscuro
> (Shades of gray) column wouldn't be coming in.

> “I'm afraid I won’t be sending you a column today because I’m in  
> the hospital,” he told Malaysiakini’s opinions and features editor  
> S Vicknesan.

> [Full report to follow]


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