Kosmo!

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was launched on 30 August 2004 by Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi[citation needed].

Unlike its rival newspaper, Harian Metro, whose readership and daily circulations increased over the years, Kosmo!

Despite initial reports in mid-August 2019 that the Utusan Group would be shutting down its newspaper operations including Kosmo!, Utusan Malaysia, and their respective Sunday edition,[4] the company retracted its decision after receiving a RM1.6 million cash injection from the United Malays National Organisation.

and its sister newspapers, the Utusan Group executive chairman Datuk Abd Aziz Sheikh Fadzir announced that the company's newspapers would cease publication on 10 October 2019 due to poor cash flow, mounting debts and declining sales.

Aurora Mulia, a company linked to business tycoon Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary which also hold a stake in Media Prima, had reportedly acquired 70 percent of Utusan's wholly owned subsidiary Dilof Sdn Bhd.

It is understood that the new headquarters of the publication will be based at the New Straits Times Press main office at Jalan Riong, Bangsar.