Sementara itu Timbalan Setiausaha Kerajaan (Pembangunan) Dato’ Johary Anuar yang merasmikan program berkata festival menjadi titik tolak untuk semua pihak menggembleng tenaga dan idea bagi mengembangkan lagi industri seni dan sastera negeri.

Selangor Sports Council executive director Mohamad Nizam Marjugi said all athletes and officials, including coaches, were listed for the biennial Games before the registration deadline on July 5.

The Hulu Terengganu member of Parliament had asked Anwar to state the latest developments in new indicators to measure the cost of living and what programmes were being implemented based on findings from the new indicators.

The Kota Damansara state assemblyman said the economic activity value for the state amounted to RM406.1 billion, thus making history as the first state to achieve this figure.