KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 – Blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin died in the United Kingdom on Monday evening, aged 74.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
News of his passing was confirmed by his brother Raja Idris this morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It is with great sadness that I inform you that my beloved brother, Raja Petra Kamarudin, has passed away at 11:26 pm UK on Monday, September 9 in Manchester, United Kingdom,” he was quoted saying to FMT<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Raja Petra, commonly known as RPK, was born on September 27, 1950. He ran the often controversial website Malaysia Today, publishing commentary and news on Malaysian politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He lived in Manchester for many years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 – Blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin died in the United Kingdom on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/raja-petra.jpg",720,540,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/raja-petra-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/raja-petra-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/raja-petra.jpg",640,480,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/raja-petra.jpg",640,480,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/raja-petra.jpg",720,540,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/raja-petra.jpg",720,540,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/raja-petra.jpg",720,540,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/raja-petra.jpg",720,540,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/raja-petra-720x475.jpg",720,475,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17347,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17345\/revisions\/17347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}