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

1. The four parties that form the Selangor government issued a joint statement backing Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari, which comes amid speculation over his position and that of Selangor speaker Ng Suee Lim over a unilateral conversion bill.

2. Former second finance minister Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah told the SRC International trial that he was forewarned about possible attacks from blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin after speaking out against 1MDB in the Dewan Rakyat in 2016.

3. Malaysia cannot force Lynas Corp to leave after having invited it here just because some do not want to accept expert studies, said prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

4. Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik claimed that he is liked by the majority of non-Muslims in the country.

5. DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng expressed hope that Malaysians can now move forward after the introduction of khat in the school syllabus was made optional.

6. Pakatan Harapan chief secretary Saifuddin Abdullah denied a claim by the RF8 Army Youth Media that it had been appointed to represent the government.

7. The proposed multimillion-ringgit allocation for a Hindu temple in Putrajaya falls within the “scope and terms of reference” of the Malaysian Indian Transformation Unit (Mitra), said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department P Waythamoorthy.