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

Front Page

English newspapers

New Straits Times fronted former Perak menteri besar Tajol Rosli Ghazali leading the charge for talks with PAS to form a new government in that state.

The Star headlined Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar urging the police to wrap up the investigations into the latest allegations of sodomy against Anwar Ibrahim

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian led with Perak Umno's offer to rule the state with PAS.

Tamil newspapers

Makkal Osai headlined People's Progressive Party president M Kayveas' call to dissolve all the current component parties within Barisan Nasional and merge them into a single party.

Tamil Nesan led with former PKR youth leader Ezam Mohd Noor's willingness to contest in a by election against Anwar Ibrahim.

Malaysia Nanban fronted Penang government's refusal to provide land to SRJK (T) Azad in Bagan Jermal.

Chinese newspapers

Oriental Daily News and Nanyang Siang Pau headlined Dr Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid's medical report on Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, which claimed the latter has not been sodomised.

Sin Chew Daily headlined Perak BN chief Tajol Rosli Ghazali's proposal to form state government with PAS.

China Press headlined a brutal murder case of a father and son in Segamat.

Editorial

New Straits Times highlighted the fact that MAS Aerospace Engineering only maintained Qantas 737s and not Qantas 747 following the Qantas flight's near crash.

Utusan Malaysia stated that DAP and PKR had no right in questioning the motives behind the Umno-PAS talks as it was only centred on Malay and Islam related issues.

Berita Harian urged Proton to create a mechanism to monitor all of their service centres.

Makkal Osai highlighted the water issue, as there would be a water shortage crisis by the year 2015.

China Press called for PAS not to play a double game between BN and PR, betraying the people's trust as a result.

Sin Chew Daily called for international cooperation and a mechanism for fighting terrorist attacks, like the bomb attacks reported in India and Turkey.

Nanyang Siang Pau claimed that PAS spiritual leader Nik Aziz Nik Mat's proposal for Umno to dissolve and form new party with PAS was unlikely and insincere.