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

1. Former Sungai Siput MP Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj panned the government’s MySalam health insurance scheme, saying that it only benefits one private insurer instead of the people.

2. The government has launched the National Wage Index in a bid to help members of the public to track changes in wages.

3. Transport Minister Anthony Loke has distanced himself from his aide’s call for heads to roll in RTM for failing to broadcast his speech, saying that he did not instruct Lim Swee Kuan to make such a demand.

4. Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng announced that unmarried low-income earners would now be eligible for RM100 cash aid under the Cost of Living Aid scheme, following feedback from the prime minister.

5. Defence Minister Mohamad Sabu said the Ministry of Defence suffered a loss of more than RM500 million, through land swaps, and he instructed his officers to lodge reports with the law enforcement agencies.

6. Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) slammed BN, and especially Pakatan Harapan, for refusing to participate in a debate organised by Bersih.

7. The government’s decision not to extend the moratorium on bauxite mining and export in Pahang has been met with mixed reactions, with industry groups welcoming the decision and Sahabat Alam Malaysia demanding that the moratorium remains in place.

8. Villagers at Kampung Baru Semenyih waited in vain for cash handouts after supposedly being scammed into turning in photocopies of their identity cards by an unknown party.

9. Eight times world squash champion Nicol David announced that she would retire in June, once the 2018/2019 season ends.

10. Police have arrested a suspect believed to have been caught on a widely circulated closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera recording beating and robbing a woman at the Taman Mutiara MRT station.