Police question Anwar on sexual misconduct claim, and 9 news from yesterday

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

1. Police questioned PKR president Anwar Ibrahim for 90 minutes over Muhammed Yusoff Rawther’s allegations of sexual misconduct.

2. A group of Reformasi movement veterans have called for Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin to be sacked for allegedly insulting Anwar.

3. Anwar has called for PKR members to refrain from open infighting and to use party channels, particularly the disciplinary board, to voice their grouses.

4. The Malaysian Aviation Commission (Mavcom) is exasperated by reports that the cabinet has decided to merge it with the Civil Aviation Authority. On his part, Transport Minister Anthony Loke said he is surprised that the Mavcom chairperson is upset.

5. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has been given the green light to publish concession maps of its members’ plantations in Peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak, which were previously withheld over concerns about the Official Secrets Act 1972.

6. The old files that the MACC is reopening include cases involving “very influential” figures, its Chief Commissioner Latheefa Koya said.

7. Former magistrate Mohamad Amin Shahul Hamid has claimed trial to eight charges of corruption totalling RM295,000.

8. A survey finds respondents “averagely satisfied” with the government, while the Umno-PAS pact Muafakat Nasional is most popular among respondents who are Malay, bumiputera, rural, younger and those in the lower-income bracket.

9. A new parcel tax scheme to be implemented in Kuala Lumpur at the start of next year will see owners of low-cost housing and People’s Housing Programme enjoy a low annual flat rate for their property, in place of the land tax.

10. The US-based dictionary Merriam-Webster has chosen the singular, gender-neutral use of the word ‘they’ as the word of the year, saying that this particular use of the word is long-established in the English language, but is rising in popularity.