Harapan names Tg Piai candidate, and 8 news from yesterday

1. Pakatan Harapan named Tanjung Piai Bersatu chief Karmaine Sardini as its candidate for the by-election.

2. Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who has yet to announce a candidate for the Tanjung Piai by-election amid an alleged dispute between his party and MCA, warned against internal sabotage.

3. The Johor Bahru magistrate court freed a woman, who ran into a group of children engaged in bicycle racing on the highway after midnight that resulted in eight deaths, of reckless driving charge.

4. Gabungan Bertindak Malaysia criticised PKR president Anwar Ibrahim for lashing out at its adviser Lim Teck Ghee for claiming that the Pakatan Harapan government's performance was an "unmitigated disaster".

5. Twelve suspects, including two DAP assemblypersons, detained under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 over links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) will be charged today.

6. Penang Forum, which described the proposed Bayan Lepas light rail transit as a white elephant project, has invited the state government to participate in a debate to argue why that is not the case.

7. The number of people displaced by flooding from monsoon rain has increased to 1,974 people from 559 families in Johor, Kedah, Perak, Penang and Selangor.

8. BN's Cameron Highlands MP Ramli Mohd Nor, the sole Orang Asli MP in Parliament, promised to embark on a nationwide tour to learn about the plight of his people.