Malaysiakini compares the key news and views in major newspapers. What is today's agenda for the newspapers?  The mainstream news papers headlined the relaxed rules on private clinics and hospitals advertisement.

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English newspapers

New Straits Times led with the Health Ministry's leeway granted for private clinics and hospitals to advertise their services in efforts to promote medical tourism.

Star headlined the evidence adduced by S Usharani, the wife of Indian businessman A Muthuraja whose disappearance and death is believed to be linked to the murder of local cosmetics millionaire Sosilawati Lawiya.

Malay newspapers

Berita Harian also front-paged the evidence in the form of a voice recording submitted by Usharani, said to be a call from a lawyer demanding ransom of RM1 million in exchange for her millionaire husband Muthuraja.  

Utusan Malaysia fanfares the alarm bells raised by former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad warning that the Malay community risks losing their rights if Pakatan Rakyat takes over the administration of the country.

Sinar Harian headlined an interview with PKR vice-president Azmin Ali, who is contending in the party polls for the deputy president's post, saying that he is not PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim's ‘blue-eyed boy' but merely a leader with experience in the party's struggle.

Chinese newspapers

China Press front-paged police investigations into the possibility that Sosilawati Lawiya was raped before she was murdered.

Sin Chew Daily front-paged the S Usharani’s telephone evidence on the case of her husband’s murder.

Nanyang Siang Pau front-paged Second Finance Minister Ahmad Husni hinting that the government will be spending more in the 2011 budget.

Editorial    

New Straits Times discussed the progress of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that should be fulfilled in the next five years, and outlined its achievements and failures in terms of food, clean drinking water, jobs, healthcare and education.

Berita Harian urged the Indonesian government to take immediate action to curb the demonstrations and the acts of provocation by Benteng Demokratik Rakyat (Bendera) and several other NGOs from the republic against Malaysia, in order to maintain good relations between both countries.

Nanyang Siang Pau urged the government to find ways to stop the abuse of foreign maids by their employers, in order to preserve Malaysia’s  reputation.

Sin Chew Daily urged respective religious leaders to sit down and hold dialogues in order to promoted religious harmony.

China Press agreed with the government plan to set up loan ceilings for the purchase of third and fourth houses by a single owner.