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

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English newspapers

Star headlined the Sultan of Johor's call for a freeze on state awards this year following attempts to sell them, including datukships.

New Strait Times led with news that the cabinet has asked police to investigate baby dumping cases as murder or attempted murder, carrying the death sentence and a maximum of 20 years imprisonment respectively.

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian front-paged news that baby dumping cases will now be classified as murder or attempted murder.

Sinar headlined  former PKR youth chief Senator Ezam Mohd Nor's  challenge to PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to take an oath in the ‘Islamic way' to prove that he had slandered her.

Wan Azizah had yesterday threatened to sue Ezam for claiming that she had called him in distress when her husband and party de-facto leader Anwar Ibrahim received a male visitor at their home while she was away.

Chinese newspapers

China Press front-paged a 70-year-old man in Klang brutally slashing to death his 63-year-old neighbour with a parang, in a dispute over a door.

Nanyang Siang Pau headlined the Finance Ministry's claim that the Kelantan government issuing gold dinar coins was in violation of federal laws.

Oriental Daily and Sin Chew Daily led with DAP member of Parliament Tony Pua receiving a death threat and a live bullet warning on the wake of his suggestion that the bumiputra discount in purchasing luxury property be abolished.

Editorial

New Straits Times said that it would be a fatal mistake to think that the H1N1 pandemic will not recur as the virus is still out there.

Berita Harian opined that the removal of traffic offenders from the blacklist may give some reprieve but that is not a solution as there still exists a culture of disrespect for the law.

Sin Chew Daily expressed concern that government plans to standardise pre-school education will introduce rigidity.

China Press urged all parties to take up the responsibility of cultivating  good relations in their neighbourhoods.