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

1. There was confusion over conflicting statements on whether drivers need to check-in using the MySejahtera app when refuelling at petrol stations, before Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said it is required in some circumstances but not in others.

2. Bukit Aman’s Internal Security and Public Order Department director Abd Rahim Jaafar said families who travel in multiple vehicles to circumvent the ‘two persons per household’ rule will be fined.

3. Police have opened investigations into Ketari assemblyperson Young Syefura Othman’s alleged breach of conditional movement control order restrictions, while MCA joined the call for her resignation by arguing that she should practice what she preached.

4. The Selangor government suspects sabotage may be the cause for the latest round of water disruptions that hit Klang Valley since yesterday.

5. The Public Accounts Committee has urged the MACC to investigate after finding political influence to be a factor in the awarding of contracts for the Johor-Singapore Vehicle Entry Permit and Road Charges System Project.

6. The field team of the NGO Iskul Sama DiLaut Omadal has halted its food distribution at Pual Omadal, Sabah, after a teaching assistant tested positive for Covid-19 and the rest of the team had to be quarantined.

7. BioNTech, which is the first to produce evidence of a working Covid-19 vaccine, said it plans to price its product at below the market rate and would differentiate pricing between countries or regions. Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah will wait to see the data before making any decision, while other scientists also appear cautiously optimistic.

8. Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak said the four-fold increase in budget allocation to revive the Special Affairs Department (Jasa) propaganda unit was "unacceptable" and would court public anger, while Communications and Multimedia Minister Saifuddin Abdullah was reportedly shocked by the amount.

9. Bukit Aman CID director Huzir Mohamed said it is an offence to take photographs or record a video of police carrying out their investigation, after activists accused the police of abusing their power by arresting former student leader Wong Yan Ke for filming a raid.

10. Malaysia has set preconditions for restarting negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, while the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is expected to be concluded on Sunday.