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

1. Daim Zainuddin, a key adviser to Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, backed the introduction of needs-based policies by the government.

2. Chinese and Tamil educationist groups called for the postponement on the introduction of khat lessons for Year Four students.

3. DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang cautioned Malaysians against falling into a race and religion trap over the khat issue.

4. The Kuala Lumpur High Court heard that businessperson Low Taek Jho engineered a "reversal" of RM32 million that went into former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak's bank account.

5. Bentong MP Wong Tack said he will not quit over the government's refusal to shut down Lynas' rare earth processing plant, stressing that he will continue to fight to "reclaim the government."

6. DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said he believed Mahathir will keep his promise to eventually hand over power to PKR president Anwar Ibrahim.

7. PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail conceded that continued talk about the prime ministerial succession plan does not bode well for Pakatan Harapan.

8. Najib's 1MDB trial will begin on Aug 19 after attempts to postpone it failed.

9. Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran backed calls to allow refugees to work, stating that it is part of Harapan's promise.

10. Police confirmed that a 15-year-old Irish girl on holiday in Seremban had gone missing.