Malaysiakini compares the key news and views in major newspapers. What is today's agenda for the English, Bahasa, Tamil and Chinese paper?

Front Page

English newspapers

The New Straits Times and the Star featured the violent crackdown on protesters in Burma, resulting in four dead in the biggest anti-junta protest in 20 years.

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia headlined the death of four kindergarten children drowned in a canal in Kepala Batas. It also led with superintendent Azmi Osman who has been charged on two accounts of corruption.

Also highlighted was a news that Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail has ordered deputy public prosecutor Siti Badariah Mohd Yusof to present a show cause letter for being late in a drug trafficking case in the Ipoh High Court yesterday.

Berita Harian reported on the drowning in a Kepala Batas canal and featured a picture of a man in front of houses on fire in Kota Kinabalu.

Berita Harian also highlighted that a suspect in connection to the murder of eight year old Nurin Jazkin Jazimin has been identified. (This was however denied by the IGP.)

The paper also carried a caption of the four people killed in the Burmese protest.

Chinese Newspaper

Oriental Daily highlighted the suggestion by the chairperson of Transparent International Malaysia Ramon Navaratnam for the setting up of a monitoring committee on the Anti Corruption Agency.

Both Sin Chew Daily and Nanyang Siang Pau led with the harsh crackdown by the military junta in Burma on anti-government protesters.

Tamil newspapers

Tamil Nesan reported that nine of Nesa depositors have lodged an ACA report against the cooperative for failing to build them houses which was promised 24 years ago.

Makkal Osai led with a story that a suspect has been arrested over the brutal killing on eight-year-old Nurin.

Malaysia Nanban reported of flash floods in Port Dickson yesterday.

Editorial

The New Straits Times expressed that the public should not be in a hurry to conclude as to what transpired in the Lingam tape - it must first be established whether the conversation actually took place.

Berita Harian opined that the inquiry panel into the Lingam video clip was sufficient and the issue was not complicated as it was only about two men being on the phone.

Malaysia Nanban supported recent calls to make Tamil language compulsory in all national schools.

Makkal Osai commented on the rising crime rate against young children by looking at Nurin's cruel murder as a case study.

Tamil Nesan backed the establishment of the independent panel by the government to look into the Lingam tape.

Oriental Daily urged the government to act seriously in combating corruption.

Sin Chew Daily welcomed the setting up of independent panel to probe Lingam tape as it showed the government was willing to see the truth.

Nanyang Siang Pau stressed the independent panel on Lingam tape had a huge responsibility not to disappoint the people.