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Key Highlights

  • Daim's wife charged

  • Dr M unrepentant

  • Umno's bid to control villages

Daim's wife charged

Na'imah Abdul Khalid, the wife of former finance minister Daim Zainuddin was charged on Tuesday.

This was over a failure to comply with an MACC notice, which required her to disclose her assets.

The assets she allegedly did not disclose involved multiple lands, properties, and Mercedes-Benz vehicles.

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Dr M unrepentant

Dr Mahathir Mohamad is sticking by his claim that Malaysian Indians are disloyal to the country.

He said he had done nothing wrong and was entitled to his personal views.

He indicated a willingness to defend his stance in court after the police grilled him for over an hour over the remarks.

Meanwhile, government spokesperson Fahmi Fadzil denied that Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim had personally instructed authorities to investigate Mahathir, his family, and others with a "Tun" title.

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Umno's bid to control villages

Umno is using a stalemate with the Selangor government over local councillor appointments to its advantage.

Party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had argued that if only 20 out of 22 Umno division chiefs get appointed, then none of them should get it.

Instead, Umno now wants all 373 Village Development and Security Committee posts in the state.

Effectively, this would give Umno a foothold in rural areas in Selangor, while confining Pakatan Harapan to more urban areas.

The stalemate is to be deliberated by the top leadership of Umno and Harapan.

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  • Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim warned against dodging taxes while relating how he himself had to pay RM500 to the Customs Department after an Arab friend shipped a barrel of olive oil to him.

  • The government launched a special mobile internet package for delivery riders and drivers, for as low as RM33 per month for 40GB of data.

  • A group of 97 migrant workers, faced with inadequate support from labour officers, are resorting to legal assistance to assert their rights to unpaid wages at the Bangi Labour Department.

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