BN decides on Tg Piai candidate, and 9 news from yesterday

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

1. Grinning but coy, MCA president Wee Ka Siong said BN has decided on the coalition’s candidate for the Tanjung Piai by-election.

2. Gerakan is set to join the fray in Tanjung Piai after announcing its deputy secretary-general Wendy Subramaniam as its candidate.

3. Two DAP assemblypersons, a businessperson, a dispatcher, a teacher and several others were charged in courts around the country over their alleged ties with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

4. PKR president Anwar Ibrahim pointed to fellow politicians as the cause for the country’s rising racial and religious tensions.

5. Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman said his ministry would leave athletes to decide for themselves whether to adopt Syariah-complaint sportswear when competing.

6. In a highly sarcastic blog post, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad “admitted” that he “resolved” the country’s financial problems during the Asian Financial Crisis for the benefit of a few tycoons.

7. DAP has issued show cause letter to its central executive committee member Ronnie Liu for his commentary criticising Mahathir’s leadership and suggesting that a government could be formed without Bersatu.

8. The High Court rejected a bid to challenge the Health Ministry’s ban on smoking in food outlets.

9. A week into the monsoon season, more than 2,345 people have been displaced by floods in Perlis, Kedah, Penang, Perak, Selangor and Johor.

10. The US gave IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi a burial at sea in accordance with Islamic rites. Kurdish authorities said DNA tests were conducted on his underwear to confirm his identity prior to the raid that killed him.