Tourism and Culture Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz said his "absence" from the bloc vote in which the Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry's portion of Budget 2018 was passed on Monday, was due to diarrhoea.

"I do not know. I did not hear anything.

"I did not attend (Parliament) on that day as I had diarrhoea, so I don't know anything," the Padang Rengas MP told reporters when met at Dewan Rakyat today.

Earlier today, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi told a press conference that BN lawmakers who were absent during the close vote on Monday, have been ticked off...