Channel
@malaysiakini
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
27,187subscribers
-3,106 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
| Telegram ID | -1001005598668 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @malaysiakini |
| Description | Web: www.malaysiakini.com/en Get your news summary and breaking news alerts. Mkini Dotcom Sdn Bhd 99901014818 (489718-U) |
| Created | Between 1 September 2015 and 31 December 2015 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 21 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 45 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 21 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/malaysiakini |
National news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 9 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct 2026, 07:28 | 27,187 | -17 |
| 20 Oct 2026, 04:39 | 27,204 | -4 |
| 19 Oct 2026, 01:37 | 27,208 | -12 |
| 18 Oct 2026, 04:30 | 27,220 | -6 |
| 17 Oct 2026, 02:56 | 27,226 | -11 |
| 16 Oct 2026, 00:57 | 27,237 | -11 |
| 15 Oct 2026, 00:28 | 27,248 | -13 |
| 13 Oct 2026, 20:29 | 27,261 | -27 |
| 10 Oct 2026, 11:21 | 27,288 | -120 |
| 6 Oct 2026, 06:20 | 27,408 | -182 |
| 1 Oct 2026, 03:57 | 27,590 | -1,577 |
| 18 Sept 2026, 05:16 | 29,167 | -298 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 22:20 | 29,465 | -24 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 08:42 | 29,489 | -196 |
| 12 Sept 2026, 17:56 | 29,685 | -73 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 15:36 | 29,758 | -170 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 09:21 | 29,928 | -30 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 15:01 | 29,958 | -26 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 01:28 | 29,984 | -6 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 01:27 | 29,990 | first reading |
43 posts held, back to 16 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 120 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 43 posts for this entry, the most recent from 8 September 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 21 October 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
PAU: PH tak dijemput, PAS diundang sebagai balas jemputan - Zahid [Read more] Zahid denies overspending, quips about MCMC budget [Read more] Follow Malaysiakini on Telegram: https://t.me/malaysiakini Get our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/MkiniNewsletterTG .
'False': US embassy disputes Hadi's claim on offer to topple BN govt [Read more] HISTORY | Kuala Lumpur's origins: DBKL should set the historical record straight [Read more] Follow Malaysiakini on Telegram: https://t.me/malaysiakini Get our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/MkiniNewsletterTG .
Guan Eng urges action against Zahid for overspending, warns of threat to financial stability [Read more] Najib, son get reprieve in RM1.69b tax bankruptcy case [Read more] SNAPSHOT | Dr M reflects on idea to halt Lima; KJ wants govt to provide greater policy clarity for businesses [Read more] Follow Malaysiakini on Telegram: https://t.me/malaysiakini Get our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/MkiniNewsletterTG .
'Should make it double': TMJ unfazed by S$2b tax on S'pore land deal [Read more] Subpoenaed but sent home: Ex-auditor-general disputes Tabung Haji RCI account [Read more] Follow Malaysiakini on Telegram: https://t.me/malaysiakini Get our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/MkiniNewsletterTG .
Ong quits DAP, says no new party but ready to assist Khairy in GE16 [Read more] Flag blunders: PN, Harapan, and BN politicians call for common sense, not rage [Read more] Follow Malaysiakini on Telegram: https://t.me/malaysiakini Get our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/MkiniNewsletterTG .
Saravanan pleads not guilty to receiving RM1.097m bribes [Read more] Kepong family found dead: Zaid urges govt to examine causes [Read more] Ismail Sabri charged with failing to declare millions in assets, gold bars [Read more] Follow Malaysiakini on Telegram: https://t.me/malaysiakini Get our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/MkiniNewsletterTG .
'Honesty is part of reform' - Tian Chua urges PKR to own up to unrealistic promises [Read more] SNAPSHOT | Tian Chua tells PKR to restore membership; axed controversial academic to take IIUM to court [Read more] COMMENT | Hadi conflates class warfare and hate speech [Read more] Follow Malaysiakini on Telegram: https://t.me/malaysiakini Get our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/MkiniNewsletterTG .
Hadi free to criticise DAP, but not cross into slander, sedition - party leaders [Read more] DAP grassroots leaders defend Rayer, hit back at critics over Perlis temple demolition [Read more] Follow Malaysiakini on Telegram: https://t.me/malaysiakini Get our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/MkiniNewsletterTG .
'Demanding accountability is not incitement': Senator backs Rayer in Perlis temple row [Read more] Temple on govt land demolished after multiple engagements, says Perlis exco [Read more] Follow Malaysiakini on Telegram: https://t.me/malaysiakini Get our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/MkiniNewsletterTG .
SNAPSHOT | Khazanah-owned firm under probe; victims' family wants no leniency for Black Maria driver [Read more] DAP's Aziz Bari tells Hadi to quit public life over 'racist' remarks [Read more] Follow Malaysiakini on Telegram: https://t.me/malaysiakini Get our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/MkiniNewsletterTG .
'Kafir, murtad': DAP Malay leaders lament hurtful labels levelled at them [Read more] Syahredzan says PM must mind the bends as DAP members demand faster reforms [Read more] Follow Malaysiakini on Telegram: https://t.me/malaysiakini Get our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/MkiniNewsletterTG .
PM backs China's right to use force on Taiwan, Taipei hits back with trade threat [Read more] Analyst: Fraying Harapan-BN ties good for public, could spur 'corporate mafia' RCI [Read more] Meet 'Lethal Lefty' Lim You: Teen sensation fires 7 as M'sia thrashes Saudi 9-0 to reach semis [Read more] Follow Malaysiakini on Telegram: https://t.me/malaysiakini Get our free newsletter: https://bit.ly/MkiniNewsletterTG .
Showing the 12 most recent of 43 posts we hold for @malaysiakini. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 8 September 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 23 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 21 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Malaysiakini EN (Official)” (@malaysiakini), 27,187 subscribers as measured 21 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/malaysiakini.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.