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 highlighted its interview with Federal Territories PKR chief Zaid Ibrahim who questioned the ambiguity surrounding the party’s leadership and what he claimed are attempts by those in power to victimise him.

Star frontpaged news of the chaos which erupted in last weekend’s PKR division AGMs and nominations.

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia

front-paged news of more bones being unearthed at a farm owned by one of the suspects in the murder of cosmetics millionaire Sosilawati Lawiya. The remains are believed to be linked to a missing businessman from Kedah.

Berita Harian headlined the statement by Public Services Department director-general Abu Bakar Abdullah that only the department’s disciplinary board can discipline members of the teaching profession who were accused of being racists.

    

Editorial

New Straits Times hailed the Obama administration’s rekindling of US-Asean ties, stating that the region and the superpower are already closely linked economically, thus it is to the advantage of both parties to bridge ties further.

Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian both praised the recent initiative by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to offer help to the US overcome Islamophobia as the best way to help refute misconceptions about Islam.