{"id":102931,"date":"2020-11-24T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T07:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=102931"},"modified":"2020-11-24T16:18:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T08:18:29","slug":"senator-ras-adiba-appointed-as-bernamas-new-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=102931","title":{"rendered":"Senator Ras Adiba appointed as Bernama’s new Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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PUTRAJAYA, Nov 24 — The new chairman of the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama), Senator Ras Adiba Radzi, when interviewed today. Ras Adiba, 52, is the first woman to be appointed to the post. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Senator Ras Adiba Mohd Radzi, 52, is the new chairman of Bernama, the Malaysian National News Agency, and the first woman to be appointed to the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah made the announcement here today, saying she will serve for three years from Nov 23 (yesterday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ras Adiba, who was appointed a senator in May this year, succeeds Suhaimi Sulaiman who resigned as chairman of Bernama on Aug 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petaling Jaya-born Ras Adiba is a paralympic athlete as well as president of OKU Sentral, an NGO championing the rights of persons with disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saifuddin said the appointment of the veteran TV personality has received the consent of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minister also expressed confidence that Ras Adiba would be able to take the national news agency to greater heights and improve the standard and quality of its news presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a \u2018veteran\u2019 in the broadcasting industry, I am confident that she has the necessary experience that will help us (Bernama) in delivering news and contemporary issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, this is not all about Bernama. We hope with her appointment, all agencies under the ministry will be able to work closely together better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saifuiddin also said that Ras Adiba was capable of improving all the important elements in the dissemination of information, presentation of news and story telling in Bernama in particular and other agencies under the ministry, in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With over 30 years of experience in news reporting under her belt, Saifuddin is optimistic that the new chairman of Bernama will make the agency\u2019s products more human-centered and improve the elements of analysis, solutions and execution in the news system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need more human-centered news and current issues. Sometimes, the government\u2019s (media) channel is quite dry…we need to start to be more passionate in sending out our stories and produce more people\u2019s stories. I think this human-centered part is where Ras Adiba will play an important role,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Ras Adiba described her appointment as an honour to women and persons with disabilities (OKU) and hoped to be able to discharge the responsibilities well and work closely with all quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

InsyaAllah, I will come out with more vibrant ideas, work with the existing team, and motivate ourselves to produce more high-quality news for television, radio, and wires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the time for me to give back to the industry,\u201d she said, who has been wheelchair-bound following a spinal injury sustained during a road crash in Petaling Jaya on Nov 11, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Bernama editor-in-chief and acting CEO Datuk Mokhtar Hussain welcomed the appointment and congratulated Ras Adiba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said Ras Adiba\u2019s experience as a TV personality will augur well for Bernama which also runs a radio station, Bernama Radio, and a television channel, Bernama TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am sure our new chairman will have fresh ideas to take Bernama to greater heights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe, at Bernama, look forward to working together with Ras Adiba to steer the news organisation safely through these trying times of the COVID-19 pandemic and an ever-changing media landscape,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— NNN-BERNAMA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Senator Ras Adiba Mohd Radzi, 52, is the new chairman of Bernama, the Malaysian National News Agency, and the first woman to be appointed to the post. Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah made the announcement here today, saying she will serve for three years from Nov 23 (yesterday). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":102937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102931"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}