KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.
1. The US Department of Justice reached a settlement on its civil forfeiture cases against assets, estimated at more than US$700 million, acquired by Low Taek Jho, aka Jho Low, and his family using funds allegedly misappropriated from 1MDB.
The fugitive businessperson is reportedly now in the United Arab Emirates.
2. Exuberant BN candidate Wee Jeck Seng took to the mike to address the crowd at BN's Tanjung Piai Deepavali gathering to urge them to express their dissatisfaction with Pakatan Harapan by voting him in.
3. Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Umno did not field a candidate as the BN representative for the Tanjung Piai parliamentary by-election because it was afraid of losing.
4. The Rapid Transit System (RTS) project is back on track after Putrajaya secured cost savings and cooperation from landowners, including the Johor Sultan.
In a statement, the government announced that the project will now cost RM3.16 billion, down 36 percent from the previous RM4.93 billion price tag set by the previous administration.
5. Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Saifuddin Nasution and Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok jointly announced that the government wants to come up with a new regulation to ban any negative labels against palm oil from being displayed on products in the market.
6. MCA secretary-general Chong Sin Woon said the party will apply to be an intervener if the Federal Court hears a suit to challenge the constitutionality of vernacular schools.
7. Two DAP assemblypersons were among 12 men charged in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court over their purported links to defunct terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
8. An eye problem prevented former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak from attending his 1MDB corruption trial.
9. Based on its own "Muslim candidate first" philosophy, PAS should be supporting the Pakatan Harapan candidate Karmaine Sardini in the Tanjung Piai by-election, Foreign Affairs Minister Saifuddin Abdullah joked.
