Proton’s new look, and 9 news from yesterday

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

1. Proton Holdings Bhd unveiled its sixth new logo yesterday to reflect a “freed and uncaged” tiger.

2. Former 1MDB chief executive officer Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi testified in court that all major decisions on the company had come through the fugitive businessperson Low Taek Jho, whom he believes played the role of Najib Abdul Razak’s “orchestrator”.

3. The Department of Environment insists that its API readings are accurate and based on methods used by the US Environmental Protection Agency. However, the EPA also uses an additional measure that takes account of sudden changes in air quality.

4. Authorities are evacuating 280 Malaysian students in Pekanbaru and Jambi, Indonesia, after smoke turned the skies blood red and a haze emergency was declared. Much of the haze has dissipated in most of Malaysia.

5. At a seminar organised by Parliamentary Caucus on Reform and Governance chairperson Anwar Ibrahim, participants urged the government to do more to tackle poverty in Sabah and Kelantan.

6. Ahead of the Election Commission’s meeting next week to decide on the Tanjung Piai by-election date, Malaysiakini compiled a rundown of some of the factors that will be driving the by-election.

7. Former Johor menteri besar Mohamed Khaled Nordin urged politicians and analysts for compassion, and not “get too carried away” with the coming Tanjung Piai by-election just days after the incumbent MP Dr Md Farid Mohd Rafik’s death.

8. PSM deputy chairperson S Arutchelvan took banks to task for charging an extra fee for cash and cheque transactions, which he said many customers seem to be unaware of.

9. A Jewish group is objecting to New York’s Columbia University’s plan to allow Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad to speak. Mahathir is in the city attending the UN General Assembly.

10. Climate activist Greta Thunberg chastised world leaders over their inaction to climate change in an impassioned speech, questioning them, “How dare you?”