Malaysia sovereign fund asks news website to stop reports on airline sale

Malaysian business news website Focus Malaysia said Friday that the country’s sovereign wealth fund has asked it to stop reporting confidential information about the sale of Malaysia Airlines and has threatened it with legal action. The fund, Khazanah Nasional Berhad, said that it had asked Focus Malaysia to stop releasing confidential information about the sale, saying the reports were damaging the process. A spokesman later confirmed that a legal notice had also been sent to the website. Focus Malaysia last month published a series of reports about the sale of Malaysia Airlines, owned by the sovereign fund. On Friday, it said it had received an email from Khazanah’s lawyers asking it not to publish articles on the airline based on confidential material. The editor in chief said the portal had published the reports in the public interest.<br/>