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NOW ROUNDING | These are the key headlines you may have missed shortly.
1. The viability of the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah coalition is in doubt when it became known that Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) will not attend a key event today with BN and Perikatan Nasional.
2. The president of Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku, Jeffrey Kitingan, has sought the intervention of the prime minister against PBS, whom he accused of breaking promises to avoid electoral clashes for the Sabah elections.
3. Political loyalties among the opposition in Sabah are further clouded when Bersatu’s supreme council member Azmin Ali campaigned for a PBS candidate, while BN and PAS have different ideas about who the next prime minister should be. .
4. The Health Ministry will intensify testing and establish temporary hospitals in Sabah, as Covid-19 infectivity there remains high and briefly exceeded pre-movement control order levels. A new group has also been discovered in Sabah.
5. An aide to the Minister of Plantation and Commodity Industries, Khairuddin Aman Razali, denied claims that his boss had been told to leave pending investigations into his breach of quarantine. This prompted questions from DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang about why the government is delaying taking action against Khairuddin.
6. A former CEO of 1MDB testified that then-Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak had pressured him to have KPMG sign the 2013 accounts of 1MDB, but the auditors refused and were subsequently replaced.
7. Former Rosmah Mansor aide Rizal Mansor testified that the 5 million ringgit received from former Jepak Holdings Sdn Bhd Managing Director Saidi Abang Samsudin were intended to be a political donation for Najib.
8. Five people were indicted in the Selayang Court of Sessions for pollution caused by the recent water disruption that affected more than 1.2 million people in the Klang Valley.
9. The MACC is expected to charge multiple individuals for the Mara Inc scandal involving the purchase of property in Melbourne, Australia.
10. The contractor IWH-CREC Sdn Bhd has paid deposits and advances of RM 1.24 billion to TRX City Sdn Bhd, which would allow it to finally start work on the long-delayed Bandar Malaysia project.
