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NOW ROUNDING | These are the key headlines you may have missed, shortly.
1. Umno has once again reaffirmed its support for the Perikatan Nasional government, this time by the party’s supreme council. However, he wants better cooperation based on “respect” and “political consensus”.
2. In a previous meeting between BN MPs, Pekan MP Najib Abdul Razak proposed to set a date for the general elections or to work with other parties, including the PKR but not the DAP. DAP’s Tony Pua has rejected the idea of working with Umno, but Amanah seems open to the idea.
3. Umno’s Padang Besar MP Zahidi Zainul Abidin said that politicians should not be blamed for the current political crisis as they are only trying to rectify a situation caused by voters who were “misled” by Pakatan Harapan. during the last general elections.
4. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin met with pro-PN party leaders yesterday morning, but Ahmad Zahid Hamidi of Umno was the only one who did not appear, reportedly due to a persistent upset stomach.
5. The director general of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah, denied having manipulated the figures of Covid-19 cases in Malaysia, as the pandemic reached a new record of 1,228 new cases in a single day, including a new group that includes only children.
6. Noor Hisham said that health services in Sabah still have the capacity to treat Covid-19 cases despite a high number of cases there.
7. The conditional movement control order in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya will run until November 9, while the restrictions will apply tomorrow in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan.
8. The extension of the conditional MCO occurs when all Klang Valley districts have registered at least one case of Covid-19 in the last 14 days.
9. Former Prime Minister Najib filed an appeal against the decision to pay the Internal Revenue Board RM1.69 billion in additional tax arrears, and a separate appeal to reinstate his 1MDB-linked lawsuit against AmBank and former banker Joanna Yu .
10. Faced with a lawsuit over the disappearance of activist Amri Che Mat, the police said that Suhakam’s 2019 report on Amri’s disappearance did not find the police lax in their investigation. They also disputed Suhakam’s conclusion that Amri was the victim of enforced disappearance.
