Elissa Helmy

UPDATED 7.25PM According to the embattled Malacca CM, there would be an even bigger crowd had he married again.

Others question the need for such a lavish do, feeling it was politically-motivated and the money could have been better spent.

Malacca CM Ali Rustam is asked to reveal cost of the massive wedding function for his eldest son, which attracted 130,000 people.

UPDATED 5.35PM Malacca's state assembly sitting sizzles with MCA's persistent questions about a certain woman.

It was to facilitate outstation students to vote if the polls is held out of the semester break, explains Malacca assembly speaker.

The video allegedly shows an Umno leader's son, NRD and EC officials persuading students to change their addresses.

The annual trips are a waste of public funds, we do not know what they are learning over there, says assemblyperson Goh Leong San.

UPDATED 7.22PM A multiethnic group braves the rain to push for continuing the PPSMI beyond 2016, saying, ‘the gov't should do what's best for our kids’.

If true, say the groups, the conspiracy amounts to sedition and goes against Article 3 of the constitution stipulating Islam as the official religion of the federation.