Astro fined over old Al Jazeera documentary and 9 news you may have missed

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

1. Satellite television provider Astro has been fined for re-airing a documentary produced by Al Jazeera in 2015, amid closer police scrutiny on a different documentary produced by the international news broadcaster.

2. Al Jazeera insisted that no licence from the National Film Development Corporation was necessary for its ‘101 East’ current affairs show, while the Foreign Correspondents Club of Malaysia said the invocation of such a rule will have far-reaching consequences on other media organisations.

3. The High Court in Kuala Lumpur ordered former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak to pay RM1.69 billion in income tax. It also ruled that the court is not the right forum to challenge the Internal Revenue Board’s tax assessments.

4. Some passengers aboard a Kuala Lumpur-Kuching flight have been identified as a new Covid-19 cluster, while Sarawak MPs expressed unease over the lack of social distancing aboard passenger flights.

5. Deputy Health Minister Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali said the government is in process of gazetting an order to make the wearing of face masks compulsory when in public, while police said compliance with social distancing guidelines was declining.

6. The MACC has relaunched its portal for displaying asset declarations made by members of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s administration, but Bayan Baru MP Sim Tze Tzin noted that the information available now is less than before.

7. Padang Rengas MP Nazri Aziz said the proposal to enact laws against party-hopping would not work and he advocated a party-list system instead.

8. Former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng was questioned for nearly six hours over the Penang Undersea Tunnel project. The questioning will resume on Saturday.

9. Kuala Lumpur City Hall has been urged to preserve Kwangtung Cemetery and surrounding cemeteries and crematoriums, as the City Hall plans to expand Kuala Lumpur’s city limits.

10. Bandar Malaysia developer IWH-CREC Sdn Bhd has been granted an extension of time to meet the conditions for buying into the project in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.