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

Awkward questions for Dr M

Youths did not hold back at a dialogue with Bersatu chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad as the former prime minister was questioned if he stood by his claim that PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim, then his deputy in 1998, had "masturbated" other men.

Mahathir also defended the use of the Internal Security Act (ISA) when he was prime minister, claiming that his predecessors had detained more people without trial.

Mahathir also accused Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak of fearing that BN will lose in the general election in questioning the Registrar of Societies' refusal to register Pakatan Harapan as a formal coalition.

PAS vice-president Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah mocked Harapan's registration woes and said the coalition should step aside and allow PAS to take the charge against BN.

Perak DAP chief Nga Kor Ming denied his party was bullying PSM, claiming that the opposite was true.

Bung Moktar targets AirAsia's fares

Putrajaya said it will act against AirAsia after BN's Kinabatangan MP Bung Moktar Radin complained in Parliament that he was charged RM2,000 for a one-way flight ticket from Sandakan to Kuala Lumpur.

Bung Moktar also courted controversy when he complained in the Dewan Rakyat that his private part was "felt up" by airport security officers.

DAP's Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching called for Bung Moktar to be dropped as an election candidate for his controversial comment in Parliament, where he said people would "want" any naked woman even if she was not attractive.

Malacca Chief Minister Idris Haron said there would be "no compromise" for any civil servant who refused to register as a voter.

Opposition explains ambush vote

Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad said not all opposition MPs were informed about an ambush vote that nearly defeated the Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry's budget in Parliament so as to lull BN MPs into a false sense of security.

PAS vice-president Idris Ahmad, who is Bukit Gantang MP, said six of his colleagues who also voted against the budget during the bloc vote may not have received instructions from the party. Idris had abstained.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Azalina Othman said the narrow bloc vote showed democracy was alive.

A sit-in protest outside Parliament over rising fuel prices ran into trouble with the Kuala Lumpur City Hall, which confiscated the tents of the protesters.

Other Kinibites

Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani denied Putrajaya had U-turned over a freeze on high-end properties, claiming that his counterpart, Works Minister Fadillah Yusof, was misquoted.

Bersih chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah said her organisation was vindicated after police closed their investigation into the electoral reform group for alleged activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy.

The Parent Action Group for Education Malaysia said the national language can still be safeguarded even with the reintroduction of English-medium schools.

Pua questioned why the prime minister did not exercise his powers for the return of 1MDB's financial documents as the company's accounts for 2015 and 2016 had yet to be audited.

The Finance Ministry defended the Inland Revenue Board spending RM8.16 million a year to rent an office in Kuantan.

Looking ahead

Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi will attend an anti-terrorism financing summit in Kuala Lumpur.

Kuala Lumpur mayor Mhd Amin Nordin Abdul Aziz will attend the launch of a building control guide at the Kuala Lumpur City Hall headquarters.