Six-way showdown in Tanjung Piai and 8 news from yesterday

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

1. Apart from Bersatu's Karmaine Sardini and MCA's Wee Jeck Seng, four other candidates will vie for the Tanjung Piai seat in a by-election, namely Berjasa's Badhrulhisham Abdul Aziz, Gerakan's Wendy Subramaniam and independent candidates Ang Chuan Lock and Faridah Aryani Abd Ghaffar.

2. Backing Bersatu's candidate, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said voters should not look at ethnicity but decide based on which candidate is clean and can deliver.

3. PAS has instructed its members to vote for MCA in Tanjung Piai over its coalition ally Berjasa.

4. Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Putrajaya rejected Goldman Sachs offer of "less than US$2 billion" for its role in the 1MDB scandal but added that the government is willing to reduce its demand of US$7.5 billion if the bank responded reasonably.

5. PKR president Anwar Ibrahim said people should not blame DAP for all the country's problems.

6. Anwar also told his party grassroots to ignore "irrelevant" discontent voices in PKR in an apparent reference to his rivals.

7. Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin denied that the "deep state" was targeting the DAP by having its members arrested on grounds that they have links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) group.

8. A US report claims that Malaysia remains a source and transit point for Islamic State and Abu Sayyaf militants.

9. Sepang International Circuit (SIC) chief executive officer Razlan Razali is angry over incidents of theft against several MotoGP teams.