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 and the Star headlined that free rear seat belts will be given to locally-made cars.

The Star also wrote that the Umno supreme council will hold a pow-wow this week to discuss about the party's future. It also published a picture of people scrambling for 100 million rupiah (RM34,500) worth of money and seminar tickets by Indonesian author Tung Dasem Waringin that was thrown out of an airplane.

TheSun led with a report that the Anti-Corruption Agency was wrapping up its probe into a top Securities Commission official. It also reported that the police was investigating into a senior police for alleged involvement in a land-grab scandal in Sabah.

Bahasa Malaysia newspapers

Utusan Malaysia reported that the country's economic growth may be stumped if the government failed to assist small industries in light of the petrol subsidy restructuring measures.

It also featured the image of money from thrown from the airplane in Indonesia, the probe on a deputy superintendent for alleged involvement with a land grab scandal, and a teenager from Pekan Nenas that has been arrested in Taiwan for carrying drugs.

Berita Harian headlined the free seat belts for locally-made cars and a car crash at Jengka, Kuantan that killed five people.

Chinese newspapers

Oriental Daily featured an exclusive interview with Gerakan acting president Dr Koh Tsu Koon who said the party can reclaim Penang in 10 years.

Nanyang Siang Pau wrote on Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's announcement that the ban on foreign vehicles pumping subsidised petrol has been postponed.

Sin Chew Daily reported Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Shahrir Samad as saying that all foreign cars, even if owned by Malaysian drivers, will be banned from filling their tanks with subsidised petrol.

China Press led with a story of a businesswoman who was sexually assaulted by loan sharks.

Tamil newspapers

Malaysia Nanban and Makkal Osai led with an assurance by the National Land Finance Cooperative Society to provide land for eight Tamil schools.

Tamil Nesan front-paged the theft of idols and deities from a Hindu temple in Kapar, Selangor.

Editorial

New Straits Times said that Sabah has come of age and deserved to have the last say on its preference and priorities.

Berita Harian lauded the federal government's action in improving fund allocations for Sabah.

Nanyang opined that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's goodies for Sabah was to quell the unhappiness there.

China Press urged the government to give the media more freedom.

Malaysia Nanban reminded the government that the increasing cost of oil should not burden the consumers.