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 led with the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development calling for the government and NGOs to find a total solution to the problem of street kids.

Star front-paged the ‘Slippery Senhors’, criminals of South American origin whose current spate of ‘hit and run’ crimes in Malaysia has proven to be a tough case for the police to crack, as their modus operandi is to commit an offence and then leave the country.

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia highlighted the 2,000 tonnes of rubbish the Department of Irrigation and Drainage has extracted from Malaysian rivers, and the 40 rivers in danger of being choked by rubbish.

Berita Harian featured Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s call for PAS to stop criticising efforts to bridge the party and Umno together as fellow Muslims and Malays, urging the Islamic party to be sincere in any cooperation mooted.

Editorial

New Straits Times praised the engineering efforts that saw the BP deep sea well plugged, but warned the incident revealed a lack of preparedness to face such disasters. It also lamented the public and media’s short attention span on prolonged issues like oil spill.

Utusan Malaysia warned Malays of the dire consequences if they were to lose political power, highlighting the fact that if another race were to control the government, they might erase the constitutional provisions for Malay rights.

Berita Harian said that the reason many Malaysians have to seek organ replacement overseas, many falling prey to unscrupulous syndicates in the process, is because of the lack of local organ donors despite the government’s best efforts.