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PM, Rosmah 'no plans to meet Rajini'; fuel prices drop

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

No plans to meet Rajinikanth

Meeting actor Rajinikanth is not in Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor's itinerary during their trip to India later this week. Rosmah's aide Rizal Mansor said this in a Facebook post, denying there was a request by the couple to meet the Indian superstar.

Najib and Rosmah is scheduled for an official visit to India from this Friday until next Tuesday. The visit, at the invitation of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be Najib's third to India since assuming office as prime minister in 2009.

Fuel prices go down

The retail price for RON95, RON97 petrol and diesel has gone down 17 sen, 19 sen and 9 sen respectively. RON95 will be priced at RM2.13, RON97 at RM2.41 and diesel will cost RM2.11 at the pump, according to sources.

Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani has defended the need for petrol station owners to apply to the Domestic Trade Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry if they want to offer discounts, citing the need to avoid a price war.

More Kinibites

Never again. This is the position taken by many Indonesian workers, who were rescued by the authorities yesterday from an allegedly exploitative bird's nest factory in Klang when asked if they would return to Malaysia to work.

The government has tabled a motion in the Dewan Rakyat to extend the controversial 28 days of detention without trial under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) to another five years.

The government spent RM1.4 million to build an alternative road to the Dewan Rakyat speaker's official residence in Jalan Tunku, Kuala Lumpur. Works Minister Fadillah Yusof said the cost included drainage work, a security post, electronic fencing, security system, street lights as well as related works.

The approval to screen the 'Beauty and the Beast' under the P13 classificaton without any cuts was made by the Film Appeal Committee (JKRF) rather than the Film Censorship Board (LPF), says the Home Ministry, denying a U-turn in the matter.

Looking ahead

Today, human rights NGO Suaram will be sending a memorandum of protest to the Parliament over the use of Sosma against a former university student for possession of 12 banned books.

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