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A household name for those who grew up in Malaysia in the 1970s and 80s, former Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) DJ Constance Haslam passed away in Versailles, France.Heslam, 77, spent 26 years as an announcer on Radio 4, now known as Traxx FM. She was best known for her morning segments on the English language station where she played chart-topping hits on the radio and spoke with listeners.After leaving RTM in 1990, Haslam joined Redifussion Radio for two years and served in its public relations division.The news of her death was announced by her old friend and fellow radio announcer Patrick Teoh on his Facebook page.Teoh said: “Today, I woke up to the sad news that an old friend, colleague and former radio announcer, Connie Haslam, has departed for the big radio station in the sky.“A whole generation of us have listened to her golden voice, reading the news, answering requests and spinning the top hits of the day.” […]

Radio broadcaster Percival Mabasa, better known as Percy Lapid, was shot dead on Monday night atTalon Dos, Las Piñas, Philippines.He was the host of the online broadcast program “Percy Lapid Fire” at DWBL 1242 and was known to be critical of previous and the present administration, touching on topics such as red-tagging and supposed extrajudicial killings.According to his family, he had received a lot of death threats before he was killed. He was on his way home to do an online broadcast when he was gunned down by two unknown assailants.According to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), Lapid was the second journalist killed during the term of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The first was radio broadcaster Rey Blanco, who was stabbed to death in Negros Oriental last month.NUJP Secretary General Ronalyn Olea said Lapid was the first in recent years to be killed in Metro Manila. He was also the 196th journalist killed in the country since 1986, the year democracy was restored after the ouster of dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos, the father of the current president.In an October 2021 report, the New-York based Committee to Protect Journalists ranked the Philippines seventh on a global impunity index, with 13 murders still unsolved. […]