The Malay Mail

The Malay Mail is a newspaper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, first published in December 1896 when KL was the capital of the then new Federated Malay States, making it the first daily to appear in the FMS.

Currently, The Malay Mail is a tabloid, promoted as "The Paper That Cares" and is linked to the broadsheet New Straits Times via Media Prima Berhad. It is an afternoon paper and has several editions.

In 2006, Media Prima unveiled plans to change the direction of the paper and has offered voluntary separation scheme to senior writers and journalists of The Malay Mail. Its former weekend edition, The Sunday Mail, published its last edition on 23 April 2006.

On 20 May 2006 the Sunday Mail was replaced with the Weekend Mail. However, on 8 November the same year, the Weekend Mail was suspended indefinitely by the Internal Security Ministry for breaching guidelines and conditions under the Printing and Presses Act 1984 (Act 301). This was because the "reports and photographs in the paper's Nov[ember] 4–5 issue focusing on sex and sexual issues were contrary to values practised by Malaysians."

A unit of media company Redberry is poised to acquire 75 per cent of the Malay Mail, one of the country's oldest newspapers, which has been struggling with continued losses despite a change of ownership.

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