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 featured Jho Low's pledge to bring Hollywood films to shoot in Malaysia.

Star highlighted the revamp being implemented in the wildlife department to weed out corrupt officials who cooperated with wildlife smugglers like the infamous Anson Wong who was recently arrested for wildlife trafficking.

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia headlined news of the death of Aveer Cosmetics founder Sarina Jaafar, and speculation that her death may be related to that of her close friend cosmetics millionaire Sosilawati Lawija .

Berita Harian frontpaged news of 20 immigration officers who were transferred out of the Immigration office at the Pulau Ketam passenger jetty for corruption offences.

Chinese Newspapers

Sin Chew Daily frontpaged the exclusive interview with Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Idris Jala who said that according to the national economic transformation plan, Malaysia's middle class will increase by 64 percent in 2020 or 2.8 million and the high income population will increase by 1.3 million.

Nanyang Siang Pau led with the statement by the executive advisor of Malaysia Hardware, Machinery and Building Materials Dealers' Association Pheng Yin Huah, that the price of steel that stands around RM2200 per tonne, will not increase this year.

China Press front-paged the the visit of businessman Jho Low to a pub in Penang last night.

Oriental Daily front-paged the announcement by MCA that the Deputy Prime Minister cum Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had agreed on principle to build Chinese schools in new Chinese majority areas that have 3,000 families.

Editorial

New Straits Times said that the conviction of state torturer Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Comrade Duch, in Cambodia as better late than never, citing that the country needed to look into its atrocious past in order not to repeat it and heal wounds.

Utusan Malaysia urged all races to take to heart the meaning of 1Malaysia as Prime Minister Naib Razak intended it to be.

Berita Harian wants the government to analyse the reduction in the accident rates recorded during Ops Sikap this year so that the lessons learned can be used to ensure further reductions in the future.