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KINI ROUNDUP | These are the key headlines you may have missed, shortly.
1. After meeting with PKR President Anwar Ibrahim on his claim to have a parliamentary majority to be Prime Minister, Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah summoned various party leaders to Istana Negara, including those from DAP, MIC and Umno. Gua Musang Tengku MP Razaleigh Hamzah also appeared yesterday in Istana Negara.
2. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said that he was having a video conference with the National Security Council on the Covid-19 situation in the country while Anwar was in the palace.
3. The Umno political bureau resolved that the party should consider withdrawing its support for Perikatan Nasional and seeking new written conditions to continue its cooperation with the PN government.
4. Muhyiddin has admitted that there have been delays in containing the Covid-19 outbreak in Sabah due to state elections, while the Health Ministry revealed that more than half of the travel-related Covid-19 cases in the state they involved people who had traveled before. restrictions were tightened on September 27.
5. The Electoral Commission, which is legally bound to hold the Batu Sapi by-elections, set December 5 as the election day and said it will draft new procedures to mitigate the risk of Covid-19. He also urged the Sarawak government to postpone the Sarawak state elections due to the pandemic.
6. The government now says that dinner service is allowed in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya under the conditional movement control order rules, but limited to two people per table. Stay up-to-date with the latest procedures with our KiniGuide practice.
7. The Penang Pretrial Detention is the latest to enter the Enhanced MCO, while a cluster of Covid-19 has emerged in another Penang prison. Meanwhile, all new inmates from Selangor will be required to quarantine before being sent to prison.
8. A study shows that the welfare of Malaysian households has generally improved over the past three decades, up to 2019, while the unemployment data for August shows that the unemployment rate is stable but still higher than last year.
9. The Ministry of Human Resources is beginning to implement a new law imposing minimum standards on employers for the accommodation of workers.
10. Court of Appeal Judge Hamid Sultan Abu Backer has filed a lawsuit against the Judges’ Ethics Committee for the investigation of his affidavit on alleged abuse and fraud in the judiciary.
