Another enhanced MCO in Kedah and 9 news you may have missed

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

1. The government has placed Amanjaya, Kedah, under administrative enhanced movement control order in a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19.

2. Former finance minister Lim Guan Eng has gone on a counter-offensive to explain the direct tenders allegedly awarded under his watch, saying that nearly all originated from the BN administration.

3. As tensions simmer between the Pahang government and durian farmers in Raub, villagers recount the anti-communist origins of the land dispute that dates back to the 1970s.

4. The Attorney-General’s Chambers has decided not to prosecute sexual misconduct allegations against a Universiti Malaya lecturer on grounds that the university has already taken disciplinary action against the person, according to the police.

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5. The Electoral Reform Commission has proposed that electoral affairs be managed by three separate bodies, while the head of a bipartisan caucus on electoral reform mooted additional MPs seats to be allocated according to the popular vote.

6. DAP's Ipoh Timur MP Wong Kah Woh has been appointed as the new Public Accounts Committee chairperson as the Dewan Rakyat closes its second session of the year. The controversial Independent Police Conduct Commission Bill will be debated at the next session.

7. Former Kedah menteri besar Mukhriz Mahathir has expressed disappointment that his daughter and son-in-law breached the movement control order, for which they had been arrested during a raid on a pub in Kuala Lumpur.

8. Former Bersatu chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad rhetorically asked where Bersatu would contest if Umno does not yield the seats it lost to Bersatu, and he went on to claim that Bersatu minister and deputy minister, whom he did not name, said the situation does not matter as long as they received their salaries.

9. Bersatu Youth chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal dismissed as "redundant" his predecessor Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman’s plan to start a new political party.

10. Research has established a genetic link between viral samples collected from the Tawar and Sivagangga Covid-19 clusters and separately determined that the disease’s infectivity has dropped back below levels needed to sustain an outbreak.