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

1. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin revealed that PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang was the first to sign a statutory declaration backing him as the prime minister, and other political party leaders soon followed suit.

2. A source claimed that Umno has nominated its own candidate for Dewan Negara presidency, although Muhyiddin was nominating Senator Rais Yatim for the post.

3. An analysis of the 2018 general election results reveals slim pickings for Bersatu at the seat negotiation table after BN laid the ground rules for the negotiation.

4. Sabah Umno leaders Bung Moktar Radin and Abdul Rahman Dahlan have made peace ahead of the Sabah state election.

5. Johor Bersatu’s Osman Sapian faces the possibility of being sacked from his party, while former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak warned that a power struggle in the state to lead to snap elections at the national level.

6. Former 1MDB CEO Shahrol Azral Ibrahim Halmi told the High Court in Kuala Lumpur that Najib and the 1MDB board were not informed of numerous fund transfers from 1MDB Global Investments Limited to the Devonshire Capital Growth Fund, but refused to confirm if Najib was unaware of it.

7. Selangor’s Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah urged that the construction of the East Coast Rail Link and other projects in the state must account for their social and environmental impacts.

8. M Indira Gandhi and her Indira Gandhi Action Team have called off a planned hunger strike after securing a meeting with Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador regarding her long-lost daughter Prasana Diksa.

9. DAP has offered to help those who are unable to obtain extensions on the moratorium to repay their loans.

10. Malaysian virologist Chan Yoke Fun, whose research is focused on developing a vaccine against the hand, foot and mouth disease, has won the Asean-US Science Prize for Women 2020.