Here are the key headlines you may have missed yesterday.

Search for missing helicopter

The disappearance of a helicopter in Sarawak cast a shadow on the election campaign in the state.

Among the six people on board the helicopter are Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Noriah Kasnon and Kuala Kangsar MP Wan Mohammad Khairil Anuar Wan Ahmad.

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and several other ministers and opposition leaders prayed for the best as the search and rescue operation was launched.

Sarawak campaign heats up

As polling day nears, campaigning has gotten more intense, with Bersih claiming at least 11 election offences in Sibu alone.

At a Rela event in Bau, those in attendance were given RM30 in envelopes but organisers deny it is vote-buying.

Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi at a separate event said Sarawak can expect more funding if more BN representatives are elected.

Meanwhile, Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem had fallen ill and was forced to cancel all his programmes.

However, the chief minister still managed a press conference, urging the Chinese community to choose on polling day if they want to be in the government or in “angry isolation”.

PAS was also in the news after its president Abdul Hadi Awang said Sarawak can only be led by a Muslim bumiputera in the non-Muslim-majority state, courting criticism.

Meanwhile PKR and DAP are at each other again, with each party insisting their own candidates are ahead in Batu Kitang where there is a three-cornered fight.

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's wealth also came under spotlight during the campaign after images surfaced of two cheques totalling RM1 million written in his name to SUPP.

Former SUPP president Peter Chin claims it is an effort to “mislead voters” and that SUPP's information technology team is verifying the images’ authenticity.

1MDB still in limelight despite Sarawak polls frenzy

PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli warned that taxpayers will have to bear up to RM2.4 billion of 1MDB's debt after the Finance Ministry announced plans to place 1MDB's subsidiary under the ministry itself.

Meanwhile, Singapore is reportedly investigating 1MDB's investments in the Cayman Islands.

However, for the rural folks in Sarawak, 1MDB is hardly a concern as they grapple with their day to day lives.

Other Kini bites

Police grilled two PKR MPs over a protest they participated in outside Sungai Buloh prison where de facto PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim is being jailed.

Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem said DAP had misquoted Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak when it claimed Putrajaya snubbed Sarawak's request for an increase in oil royalty.

Universiti Teknologi Mara denied an allegation by a group of University of Bath graduates that it plagiarised their theses.

Looking ahead

Search and rescue operation for the missing helicopter was further intensified beginning 6am today.

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission is set to quiz Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and wife Betty Chew over their bungalow purchase.