Malaysiakini compares the key news and views in major newspapers. What is today's agenda for the newspapers?

Front Page

English newspapers

Star led with a report that the police have confiscated 160 fake notes worth US$66mil from a hotel room where self-proclaimed billionaire Elie Youseef Najem has been staying.

New Straits Times headlined Raja Nazrin's advice to deal with the current controversies quickly instead of allowing them to spread out of control.

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia headlined Home Ministry secretary-general Mahmood Adam saying that his ministry may stop issuing visas-on-arrival to tourists from India, China and Africa.

Berita Harian reported that the Speakers' Corner programme has been revived by students from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia for the first time since 1971.

Chinese newspapers

Sin Chew Daily led with the huge human loss in Haiti as a result of an earthquake. Some 500,000 people are estimated to have been killed.

Nanyang Siang Pau published an exclusive interview with chief secretary to the government Mohd Sidek Hassan who felt disappointed with the lack of Chinese participation in the civil service.

China Press reported that businessman Nik Sapeia Nik Yusoff was jailed six months for causing hurt by spraying a dangerous substance at former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Oriental Daily News quoted Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nazri Abdul Aziz that "Allah" can be used by Christians in Sabah and Sarawak but not in Peninsular Malaysia.

Tamil newspapers

There are no Tamil dailies today as a result of the Ponggal (Harvest) festival. 

Editorial

New Straits Times lauded the Immigration Department for enforcing the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act and it must follow through and ensure traffickers are prosecuted and convicted.

Berita Harian stressed that the government must develop all rural and urban schools according to the immediate needs of each institution.

Sin Chew Daily urged the MACC to be transparent, impartial and independent.

Nanyang Siang Pau urged the government to solve the religious controversy urgently to avoid tourism to be affected.