Impasse on eve of nomination day, and 9 news you may have missed

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

1. Perikatan Nasional (PN) chairperson Muhyiddin Yassin tried to broker a deal on seat allocation, but the 90-minute meeting failed to break a deadlock over overlapping seats.

2. Over 20 Umno branch chiefs have rejected the party candidate Mokran Ingkat and pledged support for incumbent Sungai Sibuga assemblyperson Musa Aman instead, but Sabah BN chief Bung Moktar Radin later assured that all is well.

3. Among the Sabah assemblypersons who defected since 2018, almost all did not make it to the candidate list of any major political party.

4. Electoral reform group Bersih has offered to host a debate between the contending political leaders who are vying to become the next Sabah chief minister.

5. The daily new cases of Covid-19 have hit a new high since the implementation of the recovery movement control order, with 182 new cases being detected that are almost entirely attributed to the Benteng LD cluster in Tawau and Lahad Datu, Sabah.

6. The Health Ministry is looking to fully reopen the Malaysia-Singapore border to daily commuters, said Health Minister Dr Adham Baba.

7. Prosecutors described fresh corruption charges against former Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng as the “mother of all charges”, but Lim insists the allegations are baseless.

8. Human rights NGO Eliminating Deaths And Abuse In Custody Together (Edict) has welcomed the coroner’s finding that Benedict Thanillas’ death in 2017 was due to police negligence.

9. Malaysiakini bagged two awards at the annual Malaysian Press Institute-Petronas Journalism Awards, winning one category outright and scoring the consolation prize in another.

10. A conservation group said a rare sighting of the Sunda clouded leopard in Tawau on Wednesday is a call to ramp up the protection of the vulnerable species.