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Salahuddin passes away
The 1975 kiss
Dr M turns green
Salahuddin passes away
Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Minister Salahuddin Ayub passed away on Sunday night.
He was rushed to a hospital in Alor Setar on Friday, after which, doctors detected he had a brain haemorrhage.
The Amanah deputy president will be laid to rest in his home town of Tanjung Piai, Johor today.
He was 61 years old.
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The 1975 kiss
The positive feelings at the Good Vibes Festival did not last for long after its first headliner, British band 1975, took to stage.
In an allegedly intoxicated rant, the band's singer Matt Healy railed against the government for being anti-LGBTQ+ before then kissing his bassist.
The show on Friday night was then cut short, and the next day, the government cancelled the festival, which was supposed to be on until Sunday.
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Dr M turns green
Dr Mahathir Mohamad's latest act sees the nonagenarian turning green to grace the stage of a PAS ceramah in Kelantan on Friday.
Mahathir and PAS have a long history of animosity, dating back to his first tenure as prime minister.
Now, however, Mahathir wants PAS - and PN - to make a clean sweep in the upcoming six state elections in a show of Malay unity.
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Muda said all candidates and party leaders will attend a disability sensitisation training after an old video emerged, showing one of its candidates allegedly mocking disabled persons.
MIC president SA Vigneswaran revealed that one main reason his party and MCA are skipping the six state elections was that they were sidelined in seat negotiations.
Former Kelantan Bersatu deputy chairperson Mohd Zulkifli Zakaria joined DAP.
Opposition Leader Hamzah Zainudin claimed that Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi allied with Anwar Ibrahim in exchange for his court cases being dropped.
Hamzah also claimed that PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail had lobbied him to invalidate the results of the 2022 PKR party elections after he lost the deputy president race to Rafizi Ramli.
Saifuddin denied the allegation.
Anwar is suing ex-premier Muhyiddin Yassin over the duo's spat on a debt waiver for Felda settlers.
What appeared to be a makeshift bomb was found under lawyer-activist Siti Kasim's car.
Police suspect the device is an improvised explosive device (IED).
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