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Gov't lays out growth plans and 10 things that happened yesterday
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KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

1. Budget 2020 has laid out incentives for businesses to grow, incentives to increase workforce participation and more. Read our summary here.

2. For an overview of how the government intends to spend its resources, check out our infographics page here.

 3. One highlight of the budget was the government's plan to tax the super-rich more.

4. Another major announcement was the government mulling ways to reduce toll charges imposed by Plus Highway Bhd and takeover four key highways in the Klang Valley.

5. Fuel subsidies will not be limited to just those on Bantuan Sara Hidup welfare payments.

6. MCA president Wee Ka Siong is not happy that the federal government has slashed funding for Tunku Abdul Rahman College, which his party owns.

7. The mother and lawyer of an Indonesian who was allegedly raped by Perak exco member Paul Yong complained of being denied access to the victim.

8. Seven Sarawakians have claimed trial for allegedly disrespecting the national anthem by refusing to stand at attention.

9. Former Bar Council chairperson Ambiga Sreneevasan has urged the government to form bipartisan committees to discuss racial issues in the country.

10. Iskandar Puteri MP Lim Kit Siang has urged the authorities to allow DAP assemblypersons P Gunasekaran and G Saminathan to defend themselves in court instead of incarcerating them without trial under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012.

11. PKR president Anwar Ibrahim said becoming a "hero" for the Malay community must not come at the expense of dividing the nation and stirring racial disharmony in the country.

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