KINI ROUNDUP | Key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.
1. A factory linked to the water disruption in Selangor had committed a similar offence before, and it will take four days to restore the water supply.
2. A message claiming that the pollution causing the water disruption has dissipated, which was widely shared including by Environment and Water Minister Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, turned out to be false.
3. Several people linked to Muar MP Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman’s Muda Malaysia platform have gained hundreds of new “followers” on social media that are suspected to be automated accounts known as bots.
4. The seat allocation between BN, Perikatan Nasional, and its allies for the coming Sabah state election is almost finalised.
5. Parti Bersatu Sabah president Maximus Johnity Ongkili, who has been absent from Parliament for medical reasons, will lead the party in the state election while still recuperating.
6. Warisan vice-president Junz Wong pledged to give Sabah student Veveonah Mosibin a bird’s nest house after a deputy minister wrongly accused the latter of lying.
7. Police clarified that it has not given a target date to reunite former kindergarten teacher M Indira Gandhi with her long-lost daughter, saying that it was Indira who had set the target.
8. Prosecutors in Malaysia have dropped their case against Goldman Sachs International and its subsidiaries following a settlement.
9. The Malaysian Association of Standards Users has urged authorities to closely monitor the sale of non-medical face masks as some are found to be not up to standard.
10. One passenger was injured when two southbound KTM trains became involved in a sideswipe collision with one another near the Kuang station in Selangor.