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‘Illegal’ groups behind Hat Yai Accord memorial event, and 9 news from yesterday

KINI ROUNDUP | Key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

1. The Registrar of Societies (ROS) has hauled up three of the groups involved in the Hat Yai Peace Accord memorial event on Dec 1 for questioning, while Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said six of the nine groups involved were illegal societies.

2. Education Minister Maszlee Malik was evasive when asked about mounting opposition against the government’s plans to introduce Jawi lessons in vernacular schools, but his deputy, Teo Nie Ching, moved to allay concerns that school boards would be sidelined.

3. The Kuala Lumpur High Court has ordered Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle Brown to attend court, saying Terengganu's Sultanah Nur Zahirah indeed has a case against her.

4. Sabah Umno is open to considering fielding former foreign minister Anifah Aman as the BN candidate for the upcoming Kimanis by-election despite that he had quit Umno following the 14th general election.

5. Police are close to completing its investigation on allegations of sexual misconduct against PKR president Anwar Ibrahim.

6. Former lawyer Samantha Chong has taken to Twitter to complain of police inaction on her complaints of being sexually assaulted at the Criminal Lawyers' Annual Dinner in June, while the family of a student who was allegedly sexually harassed by her lecturer expressed frustration after police closed the case.

7. PKR vice-president Zuraida Kamaruddin agreed with Anwar that PKR members should use internal channels to voice their grouses instead of airing it in public.

8. Rival student groups at Universiti Malaya put aside their differences to demand the university administration to take steps to improve student welfare.

9. At an event in Kuala Lumpur, former US president Barrack Obama said leaders must know how to manage the conflict of values in their society, and refrain from surrounding themselves with yes-people.

10. A group of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu marine biology students rescued a stranded dolphin near Kuala Nerus, releasing it back into the sea.

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