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 highlighted chief secretary to the government Sidek Hassan's statement that there was no political input involved in the appointment of the Selangor state secretary.

Star focused on the open verdict declared by the 17-month inquest into the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock.

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia taunted Selangor MB Khalid Ibrahim on his apparent failure to resist the appointment of former Islamic department head Jais head Mohd Khusrin Munawi as state secretary.

Berita Harian featured the row between Selangor MB Khalid Ibrahim and Selangor Sultan confidential secretary Munir Bani over a statement the latter issued on the palace behalf.

Sinar Harian highlighted Rais Yatim's denial that he was the minister that allegedly raped an Indonesian maid.

Chinese newspapers

Sin Chew Daily, China Press,Oriental Daily News and Nanyang Siang Pau front-paged the open verdict of the Teoh Beng Hock inquest.

China Press,Oriental Daily News and Nanyang Siang Pau also focused on Federal Minister Rais Yatim's denial of rape allegations.

Editorial

New Straits Times lamented the bad ending of 2010 for African democracy with the failure of elections in Ivory Coast and the current impasse and possible civil war in the nation.

Utusan Malaysia warned that the so called ‘cooking oil shortage' must not be allowed to continue especially since it could be a hoax by suppliers to drive prices up.

Berita Harian cautioned that errors found in English language textbooks will hamper the learning of the language in schools, adding that such errors should not have happened in the first place.

Sin Chew Daily expressed that Malaysia should adopt a global concept when it comes to tertiary education regarding human resources.

China Press disagreed with the Johore Education Department's strategy of  downsizing the number of students in each school classroom and reducing the number of school teachers, as cost cutting measures.

Nanyang Siang Pau supported the government policy of reducing the use of plastic bags.