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

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English newspapers

The New Straits Times reported that Labour Department officers will visit all employers of foreign workers from Nov 1 to ensure they are treated well

Star reported that the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) has picked up four more people, bring the total to 17, for alleged involvement in irregularities highlighted in the 2006 Auditor-General's Report. It also featured the safe return of Rekha Abdullah, 10, who has been missing since Monday.

The Sun wrote that some 1,200 children in Malaysia are afflicted with cancer every year but that some parents are in denial and delay treatment by changing doctors repeatedly.

It also reported that two police detectives were killed during a drug raid on a house when suspected drug dealers opened fire at them with handguns in Taman Suria, Desa Aman near Sungai Buloh yesterday.

Chinese newspapers

Oriental Daily News, Sin Chew Daily and Nanyang Siang Pau led with the fatal shooting of two policemen. Two other policemen were injured.

Nanyang also reported Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi clarified that his cough is not due to cancer.

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian both highlighted the ACA arrests.

Utusan also wrote that the government has no choice but to raise electricity tariffs because of the rise in global oil and energy prices. It further said the ACA will charge de facto PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim for failing to give the full version of the 'Lingam tape' to them.

Berita Harian reported that Rekha Abdullah claimed she was assaulted while kidnapped for four days in Farlim, Air Itam.

Editorial

The New Straits Times said that in 2005, 48 percent of companies were affected by economic crimes but that two out of every five detected cases were never revealed to the police, external auditors or shareholders; one in five cases involved those in senior management.

Berita Harian suggested that parents should not let their children out of the house alone when it is late, in order to prevent them going missing.

The Sun lauded the government's move to allow AirAsia to fly to Singapore and called this part of globalisation in improving old businesses and creating new ones..

Nanyang Siang Pau welcomed the ACA's recent actions in arresting those who involved in corruption.

Sin Chew Daily urged the government to give more power to Auditor-General in combatting corruption among civil servants.