Malaysiakini has won its first Kajai Award today, in addition to two gold prizes at the MPI-Petronas Malaysian Journalism Awards 2023.

The top award in Malaysian journalism went to journalists S Vinothaa, Ooi Choon Nam, and Affan Amrish Mohd Jalani for their contribution to Malaysiakini’s three-part series on how stateless children in Sabah have been forcibly taken from their parents and put up for adoption.