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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

28. Raja Petra Kamarudin


PHOTONEWS:   Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sweeping by-election victory takes him one step closer to power. Raja Petra Kamarudin is one of his most vociferous supporters and the man behind the Malaysia Today news website.

To ordinary Malaysians, Raja Petra is something like a rock star. As publisher and editor of Malaysia Today, the self-confessed hippie has delighted his fans by turning up the heat on the nation's troubled politicians, who vainly attempt to rebuke him or feign indifference whenever his name is mentioned. 

"They call me a cyber terrorist," he says with a smile and a slight sense of bewilderment- by  Luke Hunt, Bangkok Post.

Read all about the man and his works here.