KINI ROUNDUP | Here are the key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

Anwar visits Wan Azizah

Jailed former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim visited his wife Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, who has been warded at the Al Islam Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, last night, after Sungai Buloh Prison authorities approved an application from the family for him to be allowed to visit her.

Wan Azizah had been admitted to a hospital for treatment on Monday, her political secretary Rodziah Ismail said. However, her condition is not worrying, Rodziah said in a statement released late Monday night, without elaborating on why the PKR chief was admitted to the hospital.

Anwar was supposed to appear in court yesterday for the submissions of his hearing against the Election Commission (EC), but the order to produce (OTP) Anwar was cancelled on short notice. His lawyers intend to apply to the court to rescind the cancellation of the OTP.

'Don't the bite hand that feeds you'

Chief secretary to the government Ali Hamsa has urged civil servants not to bite the hand that feeds them, as Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has singled them out to receive new amenities despite the uncertain global economic climate.

On its part, the National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) and Cuepacs, the body representing civil servants, have urged teachers to focus on teaching, to leave politics to the politicians and not to besmirch the government's image.

More Kinibites

The police have arrested the owner of Maxim Birdnest in Klang, previously the focus of a Malaysiakini and Tempo Magazine joint expose on the mistreatment of Indonesian workers, for human trafficking activities.

Two of the five Malaysian fishermen who were kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf militant group in July last year said they were treated like slaves and often threatened that they would be beheaded.

The Court of Appeal today overturned the Home Ministry's ban on the Penang Voluntary Patrol (PPS), the Penang government's version of the People's Volunteer Corp (Rela).

Former Master’s student Siti Noor Aishah Atam was re-arrested under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) and is detained at Kajang Prison, after she appeared in the High Court in Kuala Lumpur for the appeal by the government against her earlier acquittal on a charge of possessing 12 books.

The Sexual Offences Against Children 2017 Bill has finally been tabled in Parliament, amid concerns that existing laws have been inadequate in protecting children against sexual predators.

Looking ahead

The BN supreme council meets today, while socialist party PSM will be protesting in front of Parliament House.