GE14 | Airline Cathay Pacific’s move to waive rebooking fees for flight tickets booked on polling day of the 14th general election has courted a backhanded compliment from Deputy Home Minister Nur Jazlan Mohamed, who commented if effecting “regime change” was the intended outcome.

Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter, he retweeted an article from The Malaysian Insight on the airline’s latest move and appeared to agree with it before questioning its motives...