Lawyer says VVIP met Azilah outside prison, and 9 news from yesterday

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

1. Lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah claimed that Special Action Unit officer Azilah Hadri was brought out of the death row in Kajang Prison to meet a VVIP in February, and that this showed there was a plot against his client Najib Abdul Razak.

2. Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad shook his head and smiled when asked if he was the VVIP in question.

3. A Klang-based cleaning services company was raided after being accused of exploiting migrant workers. A total of 51 migrant workers were rescued, just a day before International Migrants Day.

4. The NGO Tenaganita is urging the government to recognise domestic workers under labour law so as to give them the right to minimum wage and some protections.

5. The government has retained IWH-CREC Sdn Bhd as the master developer of the Bandar Malaysia project, which has been given three years to pay off its RM6.45 billion buy-in for a stake in the project.

6. Muhammed Yusoff Rawther, who has already been questioned twice over his allegations of sexual misconduct against PKR president Anwar Ibrahim, has gone for a third round of questioning – this time while hooked on to a polygraph.

7. The government will table a fresh bill to amend Article 1(2) of the Federal Constitution in March next year, after a previous attempt to ‘restore’ the status of Sabah and Sarawak’s in the federation came just 10 votes shy of being passed by the Dewan Rakyat.

8. Malaysia has filed submissions to extend its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from its shores, prompting objections from China.

9. DAP has expressed concern over a lawsuit seeking to prohibit the use of Chinese and Tamil languages as the medium of instruction in vernacular schools.

10. Two alleged IS members have been charged in court after returning to Malaysia from Syria.