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All letters will be edited for content, clarity and conciseness. Letter writers can help contribute to a faster publication of their missives by ensuring that repetitiveness, bad grammar, poor sentence construction and superfluousness is kept to a bare minimum. Length of your epistles is no guarantee for publication and may work contrary to the aim.

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Malaysiakini positions its Letters to the Editor section as a premier platform for Malaysians to voice their opinions on a wide variety of issues which affect and concern all of us. In this respect all letter writers are indirect guardians of this domain and we do hope that you will embrace this responsibility with due care, diligence and enthusiasm.

Not up to writing a full-length letter? Only need to make some brief, crisp comments? Then Malaysiakini’s Vox Populi is just the forum for you as it caters for short, to the point comments from our readers on topics of the day. Only brief responses are published and similar to Letters, pseudonyms are allowed. Apart from length, the above guidelines for Letters also do apply for Vox Populi which is also a free forum. Do please indicate which report/article you are referring to.

Send your Letters to the Editor and Vox Populi comments to: editor@malaysiakini.com