Five of 12 parties to join PN and 8 news you may have missed

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

1. Five out of the 12 component parties in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government will formally join the PN coalition, which plans to contest under one banner in the next general election.

2. Former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng decried the PN government's decision to cancel the Penang International Airport and Penang Hill Cable Car projects, calling it "vengeance politics".

3. The prime minister’s special advisor on public health Dr Jemilah Mahmood said enforcement against quarantine defiers is done by the police and not by the Health Ministry, amid complaints of double standards after Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali was only fined RM1,000 for skipping compulsory quarantine.

4. A petition demanding Khairuddin resigns garnered more than 30,000 signatories.

5. Bersatu is mulling to appoint Gombak MP Azmin Ali as its vice-president.

6. PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man defended Khairuddin, who is a party colleague, stating that what mattered was that Khairuddin did not cause a Covid-19 cluster.

7. Ikmal Hazlan, whose father Ikmal Hisham Abdul Aziz used his position as deputy defence minister to recommend him as a board member of Pharmaniaga Bhd, said sometimes parents did "what they thought was best for their children" and that he is grateful.

8. Special Functions Minister Mohd Redzuan Md Yusof, who was vying for a vice-president position, was defeated in the Bersatu polls.

9. Efforts to set up an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) with prosecution powers may once again end up with a watered-down version as the PN government is planning to revise the original proposal by the previous Pakatan Harapan government.