Aid package for MCO 2.0 and other news you may have missed

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

1. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin unveiled an economic relief package for the second movement control order (MCO 2.0), although it is more modest than the one during the first MCO.

2. Muhyiddin also assuaged concerns about the emergency proclamation by maintaining that it was purely to fight Covid-19.

3. However, former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad warned that the government now has absolute power and this would eventually lead to abuses.

4. Khairuddin Abu Hassan, a stalwart of Mahathir, also filed a legal challenge on the emergency proclamation.

5. Umno postponed its annual general meeting following the implementation of the MCO.

6. DAP sacked its Malim Nawar assemblyperson Leong Cheok Keng after he was reported to have applied to join MCA.

7. Alan Ling, the lawyer of a 16-year-old girl who was raped in a police lock-up in Miri, wants the two police officers who were on duty at the time to be charged under the Child Act 2001.

8. Sarawak police chief Aidi Ismail said an internal investigation found the CCTVs at the Miri lock-up where the rape was said to have occurred had no record function.

9. Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah addressed concerns that not testing asymptomatic Covid-19 close contacts could help the virus spread, pointing out they must still self-isolate.

10. Seremban and Port Dickson will also be placed under the MCO 2.0 starting today.

11. The "Datuk" who beat up a couple after he was told not to speak too loudly at a restaurant in Petaling Jaya has apologised.