Malaysiakini compares the key news and views in major newspapers. What is today’s agenda for the newspapers?

Front Page

English newspapers

New Straits Times

headlined that Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has denied that there is outside interference in the police force, as alleged by outgoing police chief Musa Hassan.

Star front-paged that more than 1.2 million consumers in four districts in Selangor have been hit by water supply disruptions after the Sungai Semenyih water treatment plant was closed due to high levels of ammonia in water drawn from Sungai Kembong.

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia

and Berita Harian led with news that police believe that cosmetics mogul Sosilawati Lawiya and the three individuals who said to have gone missing with her are still alive and in the country.    

Sinar Harian featured the water supply disruption due to pollution at the Sungai Semenyih water treatment plant, believed to be caused by a nearby rubbish dump.

Editorial

New Straits Times

commended Foreign Minister Anifah Aman and his Indonesian counterpart Marty Natalegawa for successfully using diplomacy to defuse the tensions between the two nations.

Utusan urged the government to take stern action against those who have ignored warnings not to question the federal constitution, particularly Article 153 and the ‘special rights’ of Malays and bumiputeras.

Berita Harian said that the eight strategic reform initiatives and the government transformation programme, introduced to complement the New Economic Model, will prepare the rakyat and the country in facing an increasingly competitive world.