Malaysian authorities have suspended publication of a business daily whose aggressive reporting on a financial scandal has rocked the Government, a move the newspaper and media groups decried on Friday as a grave breach of Press freedom.In a notice dated on Thursday, the Home Ministry suspended the publishing permits of The Edge Media Group for three months, saying its reporting on the scandal swirling around state-owned company 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) threatened “public order”. The Edge has published a series of exposes over the past year detailing alleged fraud, mismanagement and misappropriation of funds surrounding 1MDB, which is closely linked to Prime Minister Najib Razak.
