Former managing director of Boustead Naval Shipyard, Ahmad Ramli, was alleged to have authorised payments of more than RM21 million to three companies without the board of directors' approval. 

Earlier in the day, the court also unanimously rejected Najib Razak’s bid to introduce new evidence in the graft case linked to 1MDB.

The annual State of the Nation Address was delivered with all members of parliament gathering for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Full reunification is difficult to imagine, but there are many possible arrangements that fall short of that, says Bloomberg Opinion's Tyler Cowen.