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UPDATED VERSION. The AGM started slightly after the scheduled time of 10.00am. Minority shareholder A Kadir Jasin, who is the attack target of NSTP Deputy Chairman in Malaysia's No. 3 English paper today, looked sizzling.

There were several angry shareholders, Chairman Gen (Rtd) Mohd Ghazali Haji Che Mat, who was chairing the AGM in his last term, made several attempts to put them to a stop but he was told he couldn't.

As the deputy chairman cum editorial adviser stayed stone-faced and hardly talked, the new Malay Mail became the hot topic for discontentment.

A former Malay Mail editor, who doesn't look like RockyBru, spoke diplomatically about how the company could kill a 116-year old English paper without wasting money, thus creating values for the shareholder.

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Today, some NSTP minority shareholders -- ESOS beneficiaries, retired journalists and VSS-ed editors -- will attend AGM 2006 with full anticipation.

The NSTP counter 24+6 months after Kalimullah Masheerul Hassan helmed the editorial. Wasn't it RM5.50 in 2000, recovering from the Asian Financial Crisis?

With the declared first and final dividend of 5 sen per share less 28% tax for the financial year ended 31 December 2005, some feel there's nothing much to look forward to except the door-gifts.

Will it be a bootleg version of 'The Coward of the County' CD by Kenny Rogers? A 'Daughter Crying from Melbourne' ringtone? An Annuar Zaini memo pad? Or SSDD?

Little Birds say there's more to that.

This entry was originally published at 07:13hr.