The protest was caught on video by the popular Malaysian online news portal Malaysiakini.
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This can be seen from the video clip of the protest caught by the popular Malaysian news online portal Malaysiakini.
In September 2012, Malaysiakini was admitted to receiving grants from National Endowment for Democracy and other organizations.
Zulkiflee SM Anwar Ulhaque (born 15 May 1962), better known as Zunar to Malaysians, is a cartoonist for online news website, Malaysiakini.
His mates included Steven Gan and Premesh Chandran, co-founders of news website Malaysiakini.
Embarrassingly for Hishamuddin, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), the government multimedia agency, sent a letter to Malaysiakini.com appealing for it to take down both videos of the cow head protests and the press conference by the minister.
Since conventional media is so tightly controlled by the government, Malaysia has a lively alternative media scene, chracterised by such news portals as Malaysiakini and The Malaysian Insider which take advantage of the government's pledge not to censor the Internet despite its stranglehold on most mass media outlets.