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

1. Education Ministry insiders are using the departure of Maszlee Malik as an opportunity to stall reform efforts and revert to the status quo, academicians told Malaysiakini.

2. Gerakan deputy president Oh Tong Keong took former Bersih chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan to task for saying that if the government does not implement certain key reforms by June, the people will “go to the streets” again.

3. Newly minted Kelantan DAP chief Zaid Ibrahim took his political message to his home village of Kampung Chap, Bachok, and urged the people to reject hate politics and racism.

4. Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said Pakatan Harapan accepts the people's verdict in the just concluded Kimanis by-election, which he BN won by a 2,029-vote majority, and that the coalition understands people expect more. So, Harapan will just have to work harder.

5. Inspired by BN’s victory in the Kimanis by-election in Sabah, Sarawak PAS information chief Zharudin Narudin hinted that his party is keen to contest under the dacing symbol.

6. PKR vice-president Zuraida Kamaruddin said she plans to respond to the show-cause letter issued by the party's disciplinary board and hinted that it had something to do with a fiery speech she made during a gathering of deputy president Azmin Ali's supporters at Renaissance Hotel last month.

7. Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo described the ongoing 5G Demonstration Projects in Langkawi as a tremendous success for the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) as drivers of the fifth generation technology or 5G.

8. Leaders of native tribes in Brazil issued a rallying call to protect the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people from what they called the "genocide, ethnocide and ecocide" planned by the country's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.