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

1. A Kadir Jasin, who is the prime minister's special media adviser, believed that Sembrong MP Hishammuddin Hussein's role in an alleged plot to scuttle the power transition in Pakatan Harapan has more to do with Umno's own internal leadership struggle.

2. Education Minister Maszlee Malik maintained that his decision to block a comic book by former DAP activist Hew Kuan Yau from being circulated in schools was based on the law.

3. On a separate matter, Maszlee said the government is mooting to abolish the streaming system in Form 4 but is in no hurry to do so.

4. Johor DAP committee member Mahdzir Ibrahim said his party should distance itself from the controversial comic after DAP grassroots, including five assemblypersons, defended Hew's work.

5. MyPPP's central working committee meeting to resolve its power tussle failed to materialise, leaving the party's fate in continued limbo.

6. Bukit Gelugor MP Ramkarpal Singh, who is also a lawyer, said he will file a challenge against the detention of five individuals suspected of having links with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012.

7. PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan defended its ally MIC's decision to also provide legal aid for those detained on suspicion of having links with the LTTE.

8. Bersih said Harapan leaders should wait until after the Tanjung Piai by-election before announcing projects for the constituency purportedly to fulfil the wishes of its late MP.

9. DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang warned that "kleptocrats" may escape justice if Harapan is dismantled.