Friendly fire in PKR, and 9 news from yesterday

KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

1. PKR information chief Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin urged leaders accused of wrongdoing to go on leave, in an apparent reference to the party’s deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali over a viral sex video clip.

In response, Azmin said, “Don’t be a hypocrite,” while PKR vice-president Zuraida Kamaruddin remarked that certain politicians appear “panicked."

2. The Dewan Rakyat unanimously passed a bill to lower the voting age to 18 – the first constitutional amendment since the Abdullah Ahmad Badawi administration.

3. Electoral watchdog Bersih broke embargo by revealing the 2017 Sabah delineation review report ahead of it being tabled in Parliament today, saying that it is disappointed that its calls to make the report public were ignored.

4. Police have arrested three people to facilitate investigations into the sex video allegedly implicating Azmin and a “political leader”. They are also investigating whether a Selangor assemblyperson had circulated the video clip.

5. The autopsy on deceased Nigerian student Orhions Ewansiha Thomas’ body found no signs of injury, apparently vindicating the Immigration Department’s claim there were no signs that he was physically assaulted.

6. Minister in the Prime Minister's Department P Waythamoorthy launched a new political party, dubbed the Malaysian Advancement Party (MAP), which he said would advance the interests of the Indian community.

7. Former Bersatu vice-president Hamidah Osman stood by her claim that Bersatu was an idea pitched by DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang to Bersatu chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad, saying that she would rather to go to Tanjung Rambutan than to go to hell for lying.

8. The Teoh Beng Hock Trust for Democracy has renewed its call for five MACC officers implicated in his death a decade ago to be suspended.

9. Preacher Wan Ji Wan Hussin said he hopes to befriend the man, supposedly a warden, who had allegedly beaten him in prison.

10. MACC chief Latheefa Koya said she would seek to reactivate the five dormant external oversight bodies that monitor the commission.