Education
Born in Taiping, Perak, Rehman studied in the Malay College Kuala Kangsar, before pursuing a degree in Marine Biology at University College Swansea in Wales.
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He was well known at University for writing folk songs and performing them at every opportunity. Rehman became a journalist in 1981. After seven years as Leader Writer and columnist with the New Straits Times, Malaysia"s leading English-language daily, he joined Asiaweek magazine in Hong Kong as a Senior Writer.
From there, he left for a year in Bermuda, as a Senior Writer with the Bermuda Business magazine, before returning home to Malaysia to complete the book A Malaysian Journey.
He was the Malaysian Press Institute"s Journalist of the Year for 1985, and Bermuda"s Print Journalist of the Year for 1991.
