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

1. Palm oil producers say it is inaccurate to direct much of the blame for the haze towards the industry.

2. Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s ex-aide, Datuk Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin concurs that there was a possibility that Jho Low had manipulated the ex-PM.

3. Professor Dr Jomo Kwame Sundaram is urging Putrajaya to reopen the question of cancelling the mega ECRL project.

4. Think tank IDEAS is proposing that the government reward companies that pay higher salaries and allocate shares to their employees.

5. Aurora Mulia, a firm linked to tycoon Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary, raises its stake in Media Prima to 23.26%.