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

1. Malaysia has been urged to cut down on the use of single-use plastics following a study by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) found that Malaysians use 16.8kg of plastics for packaging per person annually – the highest among the countries studied.

2. A travel agency’s lawsuit to recover allegedly unpaid tickets and hotel stays from Economic Affairs Minister Azmin Ali now includes the minister’s four children as defendants.

3. A stateless e-sports athlete’s citizenship status remains unsolved six months after Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman pledged to look into his plight.

4. Syed Saddiq has also won the election to become Bersatu’s Muar division chief. At 27, he is the party’s youngest divisional leader.

5. Sarawak Chief Minister Abang Johari Openg said the state election would be called “soon”, and urged Gabungan Parti Sarawak to prepare to face the election at any moment.

6. Malacca opposition leader Idris Haron denied that his party, Umno, was involved in discussions to oust the Pakatan Harapan state government, saying that the plot is the ambition of an exco member who wished to become chief minister.

7. Seputeh MP Teresa Kok was heckled by nearby residents when visiting the partially collapsed construction site of The Address condominium in Taman Desa, Kuala Lumpur.

8. The firm Jepak Holdings has threaten to stop delivering diesel to rural schools in Sarawak to force the Education Ministry pay it an RM92 million interim payment.

9. The first Malaysian citizen with Covid-19 has been sent home after recovering from the disease, while 13 other Covid-19 cases are still undergoing treatment. Singapore, meanwhile, reported two more cases of the disease.

10. As the US lobbies to shut out Huawei from 5G projects around the world, Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo said Malaysia will pick its 5G partners based on its own security standards.