KINI ROUNDUP | Here are the key headlines from yesterday you may have missed, in brief.
Muhyiddin raises 'Malay tsunami'
Putting a twist on Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's infamous "Chinese tsunami" theory, Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia president Muhyiddin Yassin said Umno faces a "Malay tsunami" sweeping through the heartlands that used to be Umno strongholds.
Muhyiddin said Malays in the rural areas, which have been the traditional Umno vote bank, are warming up to Bersatu, forcing Umno to use its divisional annual general assembly platforms to attack Bersatu.
The former deputy prime minister also said he was disappointed with Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, for whom he said had high hopes for, but Khairy now seemed to be toeing the line and not holding Najib to account.
On a related matter, DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang lambasted Khairy for his silence on Johor Crown Prince Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim's open letter lamenting corruption in Malaysia, in which Khairy was also obliquely referred to.
Teresa Kok's final victory at the apex court
Rejecting the government's appeal, the Federal Court upheld the RM350,000 damages awarded to Seputeh MP Teresa Kok for her unlawful detention and arrest under the Internal Security Act in 2008.
On a separate court matter, TV3 editor Kamarudin Mape admitted in the High Court in Kuala Lumpur that reports by Reuters and the Philippines media did not cite PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim as the mastermind behind the 2012 Lahad Datu incursion by militants, as claimed by TV3.
Other Kinibites
Bersih chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah lodges a police report after her car window was smashed while she was driving.
Maria said she has been receiving multiple phone calls from unknown numbers, with the persons on the line remaining silent before hanging up.
Former New Straits Times group editor Mustapha Kamil shared that covering former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad as a journalist meant good articles, but he was forced to "lie" when working at NST under Prime Minister Najib, prompting him to quit the daily.
A screening of a same-sex romance film from Vietnam, scheduled to be held at the Penang Performing Arts Centre (PenangPAC) today, has been cancelled for "technical reasons".
Police may be seeking a lower charge against a warden who has been investigated for murder over the death of tahfiz student Mohamad Thaqif Amin Mohd Gaddafi, after a post-mortem report showed that the 11-year-old actually died of leptospirosis and not from beatings.
Looking ahead
The hearing of Anwar's defamation suit against TV3 on the Lahad Datu militant incursion report continues.
