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Key Highlights

  • New cabinet, new faces

  • Police killing probed as murder

  • FAM probe goes nowhere

New cabinet, new faces

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim carried out an extensive reshuffle of his cabinet, with multiple portfolio changes and new faces.

Among the notable changes were the removal of Dr Zaliha Mustafa as Federal Territories minister and Na'im Mokhtar as religious affairs minister.

Hannah Yeoh is the new Federal Territories minister, while Johari Abdul Ghani is the new investment, trade, and industry minister.

Multiple PKR deputy ministers have also been elevated as ministers, including R Ramanan as the new human resources minister, and Akmal Nasir succeeding his mentor Rafizi Ramli as economy minister.

Also in the cabinet now is Dewan Rakyat speaker Johari Abdul’s son, Taufiq Johari, who, as a first-time MP, is now the new youth and sports minister.

This will likely be Anwar’s last cabinet line-up, tasked with building up support for his government ahead of the next general election expected in early 2027.

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Police killing probed as murder

The Attorney-General’s Chambers has ordered the investigation into the killings of three men by police to be reclassified as a murder probe.

However, police investigations into the matter are still ongoing.

Meanwhile, a lawyer representing the family of the victims has questioned why no arrests have been made as yet.

Previously, Malacca police chief Dzulkhairi Mukhtar had claimed that officers shot the trio dead in self-defence - a claim that has been challenged by an alleged audio recording of the incident, which suggested that the men were killed in cold blood.

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FAM probe goes nowhere

The independent committee appointed by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) has turned up no results.

The committee said that because it had no access to documents other than what FAM gave them, it could not properly evaluate the allegations that documents for seven “heritage” players were falsified.

It instead asked FAM to lodge a police report so that the police can investigate the matter. It also recommended disciplinary action against the FAM secretary-general to hold him responsible for the fiasco.

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