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M'sia risks falling out of market index, and 9 things that happened yesterday

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

1. Malaysia is in danger of dropping out of the World Government Bond Index, a risk which already contributed to a decline in the ringgit’s value.

2. On the third day of Najib Abdul Razak’s SRC International trial, Bank Negara officer Azizul Adzani Abdul Ghafar told the court how millions of ringgit went through the Ambank accounts of the former prime minister.

3. The joint trial of Najib and former 1MDB president Arul Kanda Kandasamy will start in November. They are accused of tampering with the National Audit Department’s report on the state investment fund.

4. Indonesia’s Rajawali Group has denied claims that it or its subsidiaries are taking legal action against Felda over the Eagle High Plantations deal.

5. The Malaysian Indian Transformation Unit (Mitra) is set to lodge reports with the police and the MACC over allegations that NGOs had abused funds meant to assist poor Indian Malaysians.

6. Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun said that it was improper for police personnel in Rantau to allow civilians to inspect their vehicles, adding that they should have sought help from their colleagues nearby.

7. A group of student activists urged Johor Crown Prince Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim to attend a forum on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that they are organising.

8. The Selangor Islamic Religious Department confirmed that it is investigating a forum at which several Muslim women discussed their decision to stop wearing the hijab (head covering).

9. A massive fire gutted Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral. French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to rebuild the historic building, while prosecutors said an accident was likely to have caused the inferno.

10. Indonesia's Election Monitoring Body recommended re-election for postal voters in Malaysia, following the discovery of more than 50,000 marked ballot papers at two locations in Kajang and Bangi last week.

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