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

1. Two health policy experts explain why pharmaceutical companies seek to impose non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) on governments purchasing vaccines from them - and state steps to maintain transparency despite this obstacle.

2. Bukit Gasing assemblyperson Rajiv Rishyakaran urged the government to emulate other countries in retrofitting public transport to address the glut of Covid-19 cases and the lack of ambulances to carry them.

3. Umno’s advisory board chairperson Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said the party is strong enough to contest in the next general election without having to work with PAS and Bersatu.

4. Wildlife and National Parks Department enforcers raided the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project’s premises in Pahang and confiscated four of the apes, amid an ongoing court dispute.

5. Authorities will press charges against a frozen meat importer allegedly involved in the meat cartel scandal in Johor today, while the police pledged to assist in the investigations.

6. Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) has gone to court to challenge the decision by the Registrar of Societies and Home Minister to deregister it.

7. Pakatan Harapan chairperson Anwar Ibrahim said he is still open to working with ‘anyone’, including former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, but only as long as the coalition’s principles are honoured.

8. The Malaysian Armed Forces confirmed that its network had been hit by a cyberattack on Monday.