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

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English newspapers

New Straits Times headlined the Education Ministry’s plans to hold a roundtable discussion to allow stakeholders to decide if the UPSR and PMR examinations should be scrapped.

Star front-paged the Higher Education Ministry issuing a stern warning against ragging in the wake of the death of a Royal Military College student believed to be a victim of such activities.

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia front-paged the personal data protection commission to be set up next year to order credit companies to immediately dispose of all their personal databases.

Berita Harian headlined efforts by Malay NGOs to start an initiative to help the Election Commission register new voters following the low Malay-voter trend in the 2008 general election.

Sinar Harian headlined Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim asking external parties not to get involved in the administration of PKR.

Chinese newspapers

Nanyang Siang Pau front-paged that from tomorrow postage costs will rise between 20 - 100 percent.

Sin Chew Daily headlined seven organisations opposing government plans to amend copyright laws to implicate landlords whose tenants are engaged in pirating activities.

China Press front-paged a man in Johor Bharu claiming to be the cousin of a deputy minister, who is protesting a bank auctioning off his condominium by threatening to jump off the roof of the bank.

Oriental Daily News headlined the Pakatan state governments' decision to employ their own legal advisers.

Editorial

New Straits Times discussed FIFA’s reluctance to employ technology for refereeing decisions in football.

Berita Harian highlighted 20 public higher education institutions sponsoring students from lower income groups to pursue courses at selected public institutions.

Utusan Malaysia focused on UiTM’s initiative to offer distance learning and off campus learning to enable working adults from lower income groups to pursue further studies.

China Press stressed that Chinese primary schools did not waste government allocations through excessive electricity consumption.

Sin Chew Daily suggested that China and Taiwan should work together with Southeast Asian countries for economic improvement.