Dirty dealings. Corporate battles. Consumer woes. Here are five things you need to know today.

1. Putrajaya decides not to end price controls for chicken and maintains the electricity and water tariff in Peninsula Malaysia.

2. Malaysia's inflation grows 2.8% in May from a year earlier, led by the continued rise in the prices of food.

3. FGV shareholders pass resolutions to hike director fees for its chairman and non-executive directors by up to 60%.

4. The KL High Court allows Arul Kanda Kandasamy to be a prosecution witness in the 1MDB audit report tampering trial.

5. A witness says he gave Lim Guan Eng RM100,000 cash and a RM43,000 watch for the then Penang CM’s birthday.