No plan to replace Anwar and other news you may have missed

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

1. DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang said he met with PKR president Anwar Ibrahim to assure him that DAP was not trying to replace him as the opposition leader.

2. PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution said Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar needs to decide for herself whether to return to an active leadership role after she took a step back in 2018 despite being elected as the party's vice-president.

3. PKR also maintained that it has historically been open to political cooperation amid calls for the formation of a grand coalition in the opposition that goes beyond Pakatan Harapan.

4. Attorney-General Idrus Harun said the prosecution will appeal the case against a 58-year-old man who was only fined RM2,000 after he assaulted a young woman and brought along a cleaver.

5. Police rescued 35 women from a cleaning firm which made them work without payment and confined them to a house.

6. The organiser of Miss Plus World Malaysia/Ms Plus Intercontinental Malaysia pushed back against an attempt by the government-linked Yayasan Dakwah Islamiah Malaysia (Yadim) to get the pageant for plus-sized people cancelled.

7. Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Religious Affairs) Ahmad Marzuk Shaary said criminal cases involving religious figures should not be sensationalised amid charges against a celebrity preacher for rape and unnatural sex.

8. He also said the government will investigate the religion status of a Muslim woman after she participated in a Sikh wedding.

9. About 10,000 people attended a "drive-through" wedding reception hosted by the son of Umno's Putrajaya MP Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.

10. The Klang Valley continued to struggle in making progress in the battle against Covid-19 as more than half of new cases came from the area.

11. The Malaysian Medical Association urged the government to audit the involvement of middlepersons in providing Covid-19 screening for foreign workers.