[NEWS] SELECTED NEWS ITEMS MOVED BY BERNAMA AS AT 6 PM: NOV 4

1. KUALA LUMPUR: Kelantan will receive compassionate payment from the federal government from the state's offshore oil production revenue starting next year, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced today.

(494 words/1119 hrs)

2. KUALA LUMPUR: The government has no plans to review or change the postal voting system for police and armed forces, said minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz today. (314 words/1350 hrs)

3. KUALA LUMPUR: The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has recommended that former Transport Minister Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy and Port Klang Authority (PKA) former general manager Datin Paduka O.C.Phang be investigated for criminal breach of trust over the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal. (584 words/1353 hrs)

4. KUALA LUMPUR: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin wants the MCA leadership to set a period of calmness so that an immediate solution could be found to end the internal crisis following the existence of two deputy presidents in the party. (388 words/1522 hrs)

5. KUCHING: Sarawak wants the federal goverment to find a solution to the bumiputera status of children of marriages involving Bumiputera and non-Bumiputera in the state. (298 words/1547 hrs)

6. KUALA LUMPUR: The Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Ministry (MOA) should have in place a special mechanism to attract more small and medium enterprise (SME) entreprenuers to take up aquaculture, said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. (398 words/1704 hrs)

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