Malaysiakini compares the key news and views in major newspapers. What is today's agenda for the newspapers?

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English newspapers

Star headlined that a four-day-old baby was snatched from her home and dropped from the roof by a wild macaque in Seremban.

It also front-paged news that the Galas by-election was set for Nov 4, a day before Deepavali and coinciding with the start of the Haj season.

New Straits Times headlined that immigration officers in Port Klang are being threatened by migrant worker smuggling syndicates, days after seven officers were nabbed for receiving bribes from the crooks.

Malay newspapers

Sinar Harian, Utusan Malaysia

and Berita Harian led with the police report lodged by Rahimi Osman, a former aide to opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Rahimi had claimed that he was forced to sign two statutory declarations in June 2008 implicating Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife in the ongoing sodomy trial against the PKR leader.

Sinar Harian front-paged PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution’s statement that those who created problems at the recent division polls had been identified to be non-party members.

Chinese Newspapers

Sin Chew Daily

front-paged Lim Keng Yaik claiming that his resignation as Gerakan advisor will have a part two episode.

Nanyang Siang Pau

led with a story on the government move to enact laws enabling it to punish even the consumers of smuggled cigarettes.

China Press front-paged a prostitution syndicate promoting their business through a buy-eight-free-one promotion.

Oriental Daily

led with a police disclosure that an African drug syndicate has penetrated local colleges.

Editorial

New Straits Times opined that rotating immigration officers to clamp down on corruption may just mean replacing one corrupt officer with another, with many senior officers said to be in cahoots with the syndicates.

Berita Harian felt that the Companies Commission of Malaysia should compel businesses to use Bahasa Malaysia when naming their companies and property development projects and not just use English as a means to show prestige.

Following the same theme, Utusan said that local governments should enforce laws which make Bahasa Malaysia compulsory for advertising billboards and names of buildings.  

China Press urged the medical sector to find ways to confront super bacteria NBM-1.

Nanyang Siang Pau commented that the Galas by election will be a win-or-die fight for Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.

Sin Chew Daily thinks that European Union attention on Asia marks the important status of Asian countries in future global economic.