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 that the 1,500 Public Service Department (PSD) scholarships offered for this year’s overseas degree programmes were distributed to 51 percent Malays and 25 percent Chinese applicants.

Star reported that a total of 870,630 taxpayers overpaid their taxes by RM10.1 billion last year.

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia headlined that opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is being elusive over the issue on blogger Raja Petra.

Berita Harian headlined the four criteria used to award PSD scholarships.

Sinar Harian front-paged Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak advising media practitioners to base their criticism on facts.

Chinese newspapers

China Press front-paged the possibility that 4D companies will reduce their first prize award by RM200.

Nanyang Siang Pau and Sin Chew Daily headlined Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s claim that there will be an economic slowdown in the second half of the year, and this needed to be combated by enhancing internal demand and productivity.

Oriental Daily News

front-paged that the Inland Revenue Board has returned up to RM30 billion to taxpayers in the last five years.

Editorial

New Straits Times discussed the fifth Population and Housing Census of Malaysia launched yesterday.

Berita Harian lauded the country’s performance, having obtained international recognition for a local engineering degree.

Utusan Malaysia

discussed the country’s commitment in handling the human trafficking issue.

Sin Chew Daily urged government agencies to have better documentation in order to protect the interests of the public.

China Press reminded the public to give cooperation to census officials.