KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.
1. Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said he will not be "used" by those behind the sex video scandal implicating Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali, and wants the mastermind punished.
2. Pakatan Harapan president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said Azmin and Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari should provide what information they have about the scandal to the police, but Azmin said that it is not his responsibility to do so.
3. Supporters greeted PKR president Anwar Ibrahim's political secretary Farhash Wafa Salvador with chants of “Reformasi” upon his release from police custody yesterday. Farhash himself shouted “Anwar for prime minister! Azmin semburit (sodomy)” and challenged the police to arrest Azmin.
4. Perpetrators behind the alleged sabotage that led to the latest water disruption in Klang Valley may find themselves detained under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012, as the police vowed to use the full force of law against them.
5. Police have arrested Temiar villagers in Perak yet again, despite pleas by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department P Waythamoorthy.
6. Wong Kah Woh defended his appointment as the chairperson of the Sustainable Energy Development Authority (Seda), and said he would recuse himself from the Public Accounts Committee if the agency is probed.
7. Perak has become the first state to pass legislation requiring all assemblypersons to declare their assets and those of their close family members.
8. The recurrence of breathing difficulties and vomiting at SK Tanjung Puteri Resort in Pasir Gudang could be caused by pigeon droppings causing lung tissue inflamation, according to state officials.
9. The Defence Ministry confirmed that two members of the Royal Ranger Regiment have gone missing while on duty at Pulau Perak, in the westernmost waters of Peninsular Malaysia.
10. The Wildlife and National Parks Department said the tiger Awang Besul that was found wandering in a Terengganu village had succumbed to canine distemper virus, and that an autopsy would be carried out soon.
