New Straits Times Press

The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad
Formerly The Caxton Press (1957) Sdn Bhd
Type Private limited company
Founded 31 January 1973
Headquarters Balai Berita Bangsar, 31, Jalan Riong, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Key people
 Ismail Omar, Chairman
Abdul Jalil Abdul Hamid, CEO & Group Managing Editor
Parent Media Prima
Website www.nstp.com.my

The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad (NSTP) is a Malaysian conglomerate of publishing companies, owned by Media Prima. The NSTP publishes several newspapers, including the New Straits Times, Berita Harian and Harian Metro.

History

The "New Straits Times Press" (initially News [sic?] Straits Times Press Sdn. Bhd.) was formed by the directors of the Directors of the Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad, in a desire to meet the reasonable aspirations of Malaysians to have a majority shareholding in the company which produced the largest mass-circulation organ in the territories of East and West Malaysia.

The Malaysia operations of the Straits Times, the Sunday Times, the Malay Mail, the Sunday Mail, Berita Harian and Berita Minggu were transferred to this new company. An agreement was reached in 1972 between the directors of the Straits Times group and Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah for the disposal of 80 per cent of the stock of the New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. for the Malaysian interest.

The company joined up with three others to establish Malaysian Newsprint Industries in 1996, with the mill in Mentakab starting production in April 1999.

On 22 September 2003, both NSTP and Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad were spun off from Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad, which owned the companies since 1993 to form Media Prima Group.

NSTP announced in December 2019 that they will lay off 543 workers while bureaus were reduced into five effective 12 March 2020.

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