Taxmen are coming and other news you may have missed

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

1) Former finance minister Lim Guan Eng offered himself as a witness if legal action is brought against the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) amid complaints that the government is going after taxpayers who have already paid their due under a tax amnesty.

2) PKR wants a meeting with MACC chief Azam Baki to hand over purported evidence of attempts to buy over opposition MPs.

3) The party also revealed that Pakatan Harapan seat negotiations for GE15 are ongoing and does not rule out cooperation with Umno.

4) Meanwhile, PAS said it hopes to continue cooperation with Bersatu and Umno even after GE15.

5) Muar MP Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman will be on a one-month study leave at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

6) Bersatu's Ampang MP Zuraida Kamaruddin said she will propose to the Election Commission to reserve 30 percent of parliamentary seats for women.

7) Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz said the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic is behind us and expects stronger recovery by the end of this year.

8) Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said he received over 200 whistleblower complaints about the Covid-19 vaccine programme, all of which have been investigated and resolved.

9) Singapore is considering offering Covid-19 vaccination to selected cargo drivers from Malaysia.

10) The High Court in Kuala Lumpur heard, during former deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's graft trial, how millions of ringgit from a mysterious firm were used to purchase bungalows.

11) Umno supreme council member Mohd Puad Zarkashi is challenging a court order obtained by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin preventing him from circulating a Facebook post about the latter.

12) Check out our Malaysianskini series celebrating women who have made meaningful contributions.