About the Malaysian-s' Pore Publication

Some of you have asked when the Malaysia/ Singapore Publication will be published.

Please note that 3 issues have been published so far as supplements in Salient. Your funds are being used to subsidise this. Short news items have also been regularly printed in the same paper.

The response from readers by way of criticisms, articles, pictures and funds have been slow. Up to date $182 have been received from all centres,

While we are able to print the news, we are not able to send it to you as not many of you who have contributed funds have included your forwarding addresses. Therefore to ensure that you get your copy of the news you ought to supply a forwarding address. Each flat or individual could contribute a lump sum when you have the money and in return copies will be sent if you indicate the number wanted (5 copies for each flat). As yet no definite sum has been fixed to charge subscribers because finance limits us from bringing out an independent publication. The paper is yours and you should therefore make an effort to make it a success.

The following quotation from a printer will give you an idea of the problems we face:

A regular bi-monthly paper, say 5000 8 page news would be $176. This would be an ideal size publication to start with, covering current events, opinions and serialised articles. The budget for 26 issues can be worked out from the given figure.

If you want a regular Malaysian/Singapore newspaper, then you can make it possible by following the above suggestions.