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NOW ROUNDING | Here are the key headlines you may have missed, shortly.
1. The Covid-19 outbreak in Sabah has spread to all other states and territories in Malaysia and is now growing faster in Selangor than in Sabah. Two new deaths have been registered.
2. University Teknologi Petronas has told all off-campus students to stay put after a Covid-19 case was reported on the varsity team. PKR communications director Fahmi Fadzil and his staff are the last to go into quarantine after close contact with a Covid-19 patient.
3. Sabah’s Chief Deputy Minister, Bung Moktar Radin, has openly apologized for thwarting the hopes of Umno President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to see a Prime Minister of Umno in the state.
4. Financial analyst Fitch Solutions predicted that politics in Malaysia will slow the country’s economic growth over the next decade. The economy has already contracted 8.3 percent during the first half of this year.
5. The US authorities are blocking palm oil imports from FGV Holdings due to allegations of forced labor in its production process.
6. An oil palm farm that has turned to pole-mounted wireless modems for an Internet connection will soon be getting a one-of-a-kind telecommunications tower serving four telecommunications providers.
7. The plan of the Selangor government to eliminate the Kuala Langat forest reserve (north) was strongly criticized by the Orang Asli community, environmental NGOs, federal agencies and even a private company in a city council session.
8. The Attorney General’s Office (AGC) returned the investigation documents and ordered the police to take “several more steps” in relation to their investigation of the Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Khairuddin Aman Razali for allegedly violating his Covid quarantine order. -19.
9. Critics warned that the government could contribute to widening the educational gap between rich and poor after it proposed the creation of “elite” kindergartens for children whose parents have “greater financial capacity”.
10. Studies compiled by the Khazanah Research Institute showed that Malaysia has performed poorly when it comes to making publicly owned data accessible to the public.
