KINI ROUNDUP Here are the key headlines that you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

Najib-Zahid handover poser

With Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak believed to be preparing for a snap general election in March next year, speculation is ripe that he may hand over power to his deputy Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Malaysiakini looks at the possibility that this may occur, talking to analysts and pundits.

In any case, PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli watered down concern in the opposition that the recent redelineation exercise by the Election Commission (EC) will create more Malay-majority seats ripe for Umno's picking. He also asks: who says the Malays today support Najib and Umno?

In a related matter, former Umno vice-president Shafie Apdal’s move to lead a new party by taking over an existing Sabah political party is not a threat to Umno and the BN, said the ruling coalition's secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.

Tengku Adnan also insists that Umno has nothing to do with the EC's controversial redelineation proposal, adding that the BN, including Umno, have some issues with the redelineation that they will refer to the commission.

New halal logo will confuse

The Malaysian Muslim Consumers Association (PPIM) says the plan by Malaysia Institute of International Islamic Cooperation together with the Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority to launch a new halal logo, specifically for Muslim products, may only create more confusion.

Representatives from Kuala Lumpur's inner city urban poor communities believe that tackling drug abuse among the poorest 40 percent of a country's population is one of the steps towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) og the United Nations to address income inequality.

And for the women, the lack of access to affordable childcare services is a barrier for them to contribute to the workforce as well as to increasing their total household income to address the issue of income inequality.

More Kinibites

Malaysiakini talked to 22-year-old Adam Erwann Shah, an avid Defense of the Ancients 2 (Dota 2) player, whose team of five last month bagged RM5.6 million at The International 2016, the world's biggest Dota 2 tournament.

A New Delhi court has issued arrest warrants for Malaysian tycoon T Ananda Krishnan and his aide Augustus Ralph Marshall, and is seeking Interpol assistance on the matter as Malaysia had refused to acknowledge India's request for mutual legal assistance in handing over the duo over an alleged corruption case over the past two years.

Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown is writing a book on the 1MDB scandal, which she describes as the biggest story in her investigative journalism career.

Looking ahead

Today the Appellate Court in Putrajaya will hear the Raub Australia Gold Mine's appeal on the defamation suit it lost against in Gold Mining Action Committee vice-chairperson Sherly Hue on the ‘Ban Cyanide’ campaign.