Thenutgraph | The Home Ministry confiscated a book by public intellectual Dr Farish Noor on the grounds that it did not contain the publisher's or printer's address.
“This book has no full address,” the Home Ministry's acting director for Selangor, Zainal Osman, told The Nut Graph, in reference to Farish's From Majapahit to Putrajaya, published by Silverfish Books.
Copies of From Majapahit to Putrajaya were seized from leading bookstore Kinokuniya on 15 Aug 2008, in a joint inspection carried out by officials from the ministry, Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (Jais), Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (Jawi) and Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim). Kinokuniya has since ceased selling the title....read more.
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