Rehman Rashid

Rehman Rashid (24 October 1955 – 3 June 2017) was a prominent Malaysian journalist and writer.

Not to be confused with Rashid Rehman.

Personal life and career

Born in Taiping, Perak, Rehman studied in the Malay College Kuala Kangsar, before pursuing a degree in Marine Biology at University College Swansea in Wales.[1] He was well known at University for writing folk songs and performing them at every opportunity.

Rehman became a journalist in 1981. Prior to this, he worked with the Fisheries Research Institute in Penang and as a research associate with the Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science of Universiti Putra Malaysia.

After seven years as Leader Writer and columnist with the New Straits Times, Malaysia's leading English-language daily, he joined Asiaweek magazine in Hong Kong as a Senior Writer. From there, he left for a year in Bermuda, as a Senior Writer with the Bermuda Business magazine, before returning home to Malaysia to complete the book A Malaysian Journey.

He was the Malaysian Press Institute's Journalist of the Year for 1985, and Bermuda's Print Journalist of the Year for 1991.

He suffered a heart attack in January 2017 and was hospitalized at the Selayang Hospital.[2] On 3 June 2017 he died at age 62.[3]

gollark: ...
gollark: Electricity is indirectly responsible for basically every good innovation of the modern world, which have led to massively increased quality of life, but also Electron. On the other hand, the thing with basic discoveries like electricity is that someone else could probably have come up with them if the original discoverer somehow didn't.
gollark: Well, electricity led to JavaScript.
gollark: You should receive advice from the GTech™ Morality Fast Fourier Transform™, the GTech™ Metaethics Complex Logarithm™ and the GTech™ Metaⁿethics Group Homomorphisms ONLY. Not Machiavelli and such.
gollark: I mean, I would assume most people have done SOME amount of good things?

References
  1. Khoo, Gaik Cheng; Cheng, Khoo Gaik (November 2006). Reclaiming Adat: contemporary Malaysian film and literature. NUS Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-9971-69-338-1. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
  2. http://www.nst.com.my/news/2017/01/207588/rehman-rashid-suffers-heart-attack-hospitalised
  3. "Veteran journalist Rehman Rashid dies". The Star Online. Retrieved 3 June 2017.


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