Good morning. Here's what you should know today.

Key Highlights

  • No home detention for Najib

  • Hadi probed for sedition

  • No police permits for rallies

No home detention for Najib

The government is proposing to let some prisoners serve out their detention at home to reduce prison overcrowding.

And no, Najib Abdul Razak is not one of them, assured Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

He said only those serving less than four years in prison would be eligible for home detention.

Najib, with his reduced sentence, is serving six years in prison.

HIGHLIGHTS

Daim, family fail to obtain leave to challenge MACC probe
Daim's wife files challenge against law on asset disclosure
Zahid retracts motion to suspend Wan Saiful after MP apologises

Hadi probed for sedition

Police are probing PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang for alleged sedition over his reminder to all Muslims, including the rulers, to safeguard their faith.

Police spent over an hour questioning him on Tuesday.

Hadi had on Feb 20 told the Malay rulers that they must consider the hereafter and not just worldly interests.

This is believed to be partly in response to Selangor's Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah calling for calm after the Federal Court quashed several of Kelantan's syariah criminal provisions for overlapping with federal civil law.

Sultan Sharafuddin had described Hadi's remarks as uncivilised and warned him not to insult the rulers.

HIGHLIGHTS

Hadi sends letter of gratitude to S'gor ruler ahead of police questioning
Teresa wants academic probed over 'racist' rant on Chinese schools
'Chinese schools sow racism': Prof doubles down, says Teresa in denial

No police permits for rallies

Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain affirmed that rally organisers only need to submit a five-day notice to the police and permits are not required.

This comes 12 years after the Peaceful Assembly Act was enacted and changed rally requirements from permits to notices.

Until recently, the police had repeatedly been interpreting the Act as still requiring permits, as demonstrated by Deputy Inspector-General of Police Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay last September.

This comes after the Women's March organisers said the police rejected their notice four times, before finally accepting it.

Police have disputed this version of events.

HIGHLIGHTS

Umno man puzzled over govt's push for more Chinese to join civil service
'Where is the rice', Muhyiddin asks PM
Teresa wants academic probed over 'racist' rant on Chinese schools

Views that matter

Should the search for MH370 resume?
By P Gunasegaram
Bak kut teh - storm over a soup
By Andrew Sia
If not reformasi, why not some fairness and equity?
By Murale Pillai

Other news that matter

  • The Information Department has issued media cards with significantly shorter validity periods for multiple online media journalists from various news agencies.

    The department said it was in the midst of reviewing the terms for issuing media cards but did not elaborate further.

  • The Health Ministry is looking to improve the process of discharging pensioners and civil servants being treated at the National Heart Institute (IJN) into the care of the ministry’s hospitals and facilities.

  • Singapore denied that its move to get Taylor Swift to perform exclusively in its country was unfriendly to its neighbours in the region.

HIGHLIGHTS

Australian companies keen to invest RM24.5b in Malaysia, says PM
Ramkarpal: Postpone citizenship amendments until red flags resolved
Teresa reminds PAS MP Islamist party once served halal bak kut teh