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Kit Siang told to retire, and 3 news from yesterday

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

1. Umno vice-president Khaled Nordin urged DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang to retire so that younger generations can take over.

2. DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng urged Umno and PAS to condemn a boycott against non-bumiputera businesses.

3. Umno disciplinary board chief Mohamed Apandi Ali said former party vice-president Hishammuddin Hussein is under investigation, although the latter denied this.

4. Suhakam wants Putrajaya to introduce more rights-based poverty alleviation policies founded on the more accurate relative measure of poverty.