KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed, in brief.
1. The Teratai Covid-19 cluster linked to Top Glove factories in Klang has recorded about 150 in-community cases who are predominantly family members of the company’s Malaysian staff, while the local assemblyperson is considering to take Top Glove to court over infections among local residents.
2. The Employees Provident Fund has outlined two categories of members who are eligible to make withdrawals from their Account 1 through the i-Sinar facility.
3. Facebook’s independent oversight board will scrutinise the social media giant’s handling of former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s controversial post regarding terrorist killings in France, which would be the board’s first case since being set up in October.
4. Malaysia Shipowners' Association chairperson Abdul Hak Md Amin insisted that Malaysian companies have the expertise to repair submarine cables amid pressure from technology companies to reinstate an exemption that would allow foreign vessels to carry out the repairs without a domestic shipping license.
5. Analysts say the ongoing vote on the 2021 Budget proposal would end up being a confidence vote on opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim who has twice claimed to have the numbers to form a new government. No attempt at bloc voting was made yesterday.
6. Kota Melaka MP Khoo Poay Tiong is seeking to refer Deputy Minister of Plantation and Commodities Willie Mongin to the rights and privileges committee for allegedly flashing his middle finger twice at other MPs, which Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun claimed he did not see.
7. The Kedah government has awarded a permit for exploratory and extraction works to tap its RM62 billion rare earth element deposits.
8. The spat between Kedah Menteri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor and MIC grows as the menteri besar insinuated that MIC is instigating lawbreaking by objecting to the demolition of temples erected on state land.
9. Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak has petitioned the Court of Appeal claiming that he was denied a fair trial in the SRC International case where he was found guilty.
10. Energy and Natural Resources Minister Shamsul Anuar Nasarah said Zoo Negara has sufficient funds and the zoo should be ‘transparent’ with its finances.
