Govt narrowly passes supply bill and 9 news you may have missed

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

1. The government narrowly passed the Supply (Reallocation of Appropriated Expenditure) Bill 2020, with 111 votes in favour and 106 votes against, prompting Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim to question whether the government could last.

2. The Election Commission has fixed Sept 12 as the nomination day for the Sabah state election, with while polling day set for Sept 26. Meanwhile, a court decision yesterday that could potentially halt the election has been postponed to Aug 21.

3. Indonesian corruption fugitive Djoko Tjandra, whose company is involved in the construction of 1MDB’s Signature Tower in the Tun Razak Exchange, is found to have been residing in Malaysia as an expatriate under a Papua New Guinea passport.

4. Bersatu Youth chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal said he accepts BN secretary-general Annuar Musa’s apology over an incident last Saturday, where BN supporters repeatedly booed the youth wing.

5. Wan Ahmad Fayhsal also claimed he had done nothing wrong in promising to leverage on his position to issue support letters in exchange for votes in the Bersatu election.

6. Amid the Slim by-election, voters in Pekan Trolak expressed hope their complaints of repeated flash floods in the area, since 1968, would finally be heard.

7. Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat and Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) pro-chancellor Arshad Ayub headed the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s birthday honours list, while Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah was among those who received the Darjah Panglima Setia Mahkota, which carries the “Tan Sri” title.

8. Experts in Singapore have questioned Noor Hisham’s claim that the Covid-19 strain carrying the D614G mutation is 10 times more contagious.

9. The Tawar cluster has grown to eclipse the Sivagangga cluster in size. A class involving a teacher and four students are among those infected.

10. A Vietnamese fisherman was killed in a clash with the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency in the waters off Kelantan.