KINI ROUNDUP | Key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

1. Shipping traffic data showed that the China Coastguard has maintained a near-constant presence at Malaysia-claimed maters near Luconia Shoals, known locally as Beting Patinggi Ali.

2. The Federation of Chinese Associations Malaysia (Huazong) said Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin told a meeting with the group’s delegates that he personally hopes that the government will one day recognise the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC), but urged parties to also understand Malaysia’s policies and circumstances.

3. Muhyiddin has unofficially won the Bersatu party presidency uncontested while Perak Menteri Besar Ahmad Faizal Azumu is the sole candidate for deputy presidency, but an official announcement will only be made in August.

4. The Bersatu faction aligned with Dr Mahathir Mohamad will consult their allies in the opposition first before deciding whether to field a candidate in the Slim by-election.

5. Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak accused Mahathir of lying about the real reason for his resignation as the seventh premier, saying that the latter merely wanted to deny PKR president Anwar Ibrahim the post.

6. Muhyiddin denied offering Warisan president Shafie Apdal the deputy prime minister post.

7. Sarawak State Disaster Management Committee chairperson Douglas Uggah Embas said the state is facing a second wave of Covid-19 infections after 10 new cases have been reported in Sarawak yesterday.

8. Former youth and sports minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman was questioned by the MACC for 11 hours yesterday over the RM250,000 that was allegedly missing from his safe, in addition to another three hours on Thursday.

9. The government has yet to receive the Electoral Reform Committee’s final report.

10. Student group Universiti Malaya Association of New Youth (Umany) has called for the university’s vice-chancellor Abdul Rahim Hashim to resign for supposedly mishandling sexual harassment allegations against an associate professor.