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 French hypermarket Carrefour deciding to stay put with its investments in Malaysia, thereby indicating its confidence in the country.

Star had the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission beginning its probe into Yayasan Selangor (Selangor Foundation) following mounting criticism that a huge sum of money was to be spent on its 40th anniversary celebrations.

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia

front-paged former PKR deputy secretary-general PS Jenapala filing a suit to stop the on-going party elections through the law firm of Hafarizam, Wan & Aisha yesterday. It also highlighted that the Employees Provident Fund is reinstating the workers’ contribution to 11 percent effective January 2011.

Berita Harian carried the same headline about the suit, and it also highlighted the Royal Customs Department’s success in seizing RM19.2 million worth of contraband cigarettes in Bukit Beruntung.

Sinar Harian led with several opposition leaders saying that despite the turmoil faced by Pakatan Rakyat, Barisan Nasional can never dream of retaking Selangor. It also carried another news story where PAS leader Abdul Fatah Harun saying PKR had failed to indoctrinate Zaid when he joined the party.

Editorial

New Straits Times highlighted Malaysia’s improved ranking by two notches in the World Bank’s Doing Business Report 2011, and this shows the country’s reform in the banking sector was bearing fruit.

Utusan Malaysia in its editorial questioned why PAS and DAP are keeping mum over PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim, over its failure to address the problems plaguing his party.

Berita Harian

wants a long-term plan to address the flood problem in the east coast of the peninsula and Sabah and Sarawak, especially during the monsoon season.