KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.
1. Ministers will be presenting their report cards to Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad at today’s cabinet meeting, according to sources, and a minor cabinet reshuffle would follow.
2. Mahathir admitted that he had written a letter asking former education minister Maszlee Malik to quit, but said it does not mean everything Maszlee did was wrong.
3. BN claimed that its Warisan opponents in the Kimanis by-election barred its campaign activities and called for the behaviour to stop, but Sabah Chief Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal denied his party had done so.
4. De facto National Unity and Social Wellbeing Minister P Waythamoorthy held a meeting with opposing sides on the Jawi issue, but Dong Jiao Zong representatives were conspicuously absent.
5. Prasarana president and CEO Mohamed Hazlan Mohamed Hussain has been suspended due to “public dissatisfaction” over the LRT service it operates, while Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd CEO Raja Azmi Raja Nazuddin has resigned to “pursue other opportunities”.
6. What does it mean for civil servants when a prime minister annotates “agree” on documents? Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak was grilled on this matter in the SRC International trial.
7. The government is mulling to set up a separate agency to oversee complaints against all enforcement agencies other than the police, if the plan to establish the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) comes to fruition.
8. The Health Ministry is expediting applications by private healthcare facilities to import a medicine used to treat influenza infections.
9. The Human Resources Ministry is trying to reach a “zero-cost recruitment” agreement for migrant workers from Bangladesh in a bid to avoid US trade sanctions.
10. Seremban city councillor K Senthivelu's house was hit with red paint and a dead chicken was thrown into the compound, a day after he was accused of uploading a picture of Muslim preacher Dr Zakir Naik on Facebook, that was said to be offensive.
