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 news of the government’s RM1.3 trillion 10-year Economic Transformation Plan (ETP) which seeks to evolve Malaysia into a high-income economy.

Star highlighted the seven projects worth RM115 billion which shall spearhead and jump-start the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP).

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia

headlined Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s overruling of the Bank Negara proposal to reduce house financing to 80 percent from the current rate of 90 percent, citing the need to ensure the welfare of youth and those with lower income.

Berita Harian

front-paged the disappearance of a contractor and his best friend after meeting suspects in cosmetics millionaire Sosilawati Lawiya’s murder case, the duo being rumoured to have met a similarly gruesome fate.

    

Editorial

New Straits Times wants Malaysians to stop looking at maid abuse cases from the standpoint of politics or nationality but take a humanist approach and think of the suffering of those abused.

Utusan Malaysia

said that the decision to refer the continuing Malaysia-Singapore dispute over KTMB land in the island state to the International Court of Arbitration is the best possible solution for both parties.

Berita Harian believes that Singapore-Malaysia ties need to be strengthened in the face of mounting global political and economic challenges.