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

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English newspapers

New Straits Times headlined MCA president Ong Tee Keat’s proposal for direct presidential elections. This is a bid to revamp the trouble-ridden party.

Star

reported that residents in two neighbourhoods in Selayang are living in fear following a landslip.

Malay newspapers

Both Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian headlined the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s decision to form a special force to check on alleged misuse of financial allocations by parliamentarians and state assemblypersons.

Chinese newspapers

Sin Chew Daily frontpaged a statement by premier Najib Abdul Razak clarifying that MCA's greater unity plan was not initiated by him. He said he was only briefed it by party leaders.

Oriental Daily News led with a report that MCA vice-president Liow Tiong Lai and his supporters are prepared to brief Najib about the party’s problems.

Nanyang Siang Pau and China Press highlighted a tragedy in Singapore where a debt-ridden father burnt his two children to death and then committed suicide.

Tamil newspapers

Tamil Nesan, Makkal Osai and Malaysia Nanban all headlined a police shoot-out against five Indian Malaysian youths, suspected to be members of the 'PCO gang'.

Editorial

New Straits Times said those not in favour of Asean’s pokicy of non-interference should learn from the ongoing crisis following Cambodia’s decision to appoint former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as its economic adviser.

Utusan Malaysia wants a change of approach in reducing floods in Kelantan.

Commenting on the Malaysia Cup finals, Berita Harian questioned when football supporters will stop behaving like hooligans.

Sin Chew Daily discussed the outcome of the PAS seminar over the weekend. It said PAS must retain its moderate Islamic ideology to survive in Malaysian politics. It urged PAS to scrap its ‘Islamic state’ goal and work within Pakatan Rakyat to achieve the opposition coalition’s objectives.

Nanyang Siang Pau commented that the PAS seminar has not resolved the difference between pro-Pakatan and pro-Umno factions. Both sides will continue in-fighting in another battle zone.

Malaysia Nanban

expressed sadness over the plight of flood victims.

Makkal Osai

also commented on the floods in the East Coast, saying that human beings cannot control natural disasters.