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 and Star headlined the Selangor legislative assembly's emergency sitting yesterday in which the state government failed to in its move to amend the constitution to restore the power of appointing the state's top three civil servants to the Sultan of Selangor.

Malay newspapers

Berita Harian and Utusan Malaysia also led off with Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim's failed attempt to bring about amendments to its state constitution.

Sinar Harian front-paged Khalid's statement that the state might accept Mohd Khusrin Munawi as its state secretary despite earlier hesitance.

Chinese newspapers

Oriental Daily News headlined that the Selangor state assembly failed to amend the state constitution and Badrul Hisham Abdullah has sought a court declaration that he is still the Port Klang assemblyperson after he was banned from attending the sitting.

Nanyang Siang Pau front-paged the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research’s (MIER) prediction that Bank Negara would increase the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) from 2.75 percent to 3 percent in the latter half of the year.

Sin Chew Daily headlined a suicide-terrorist attack on Domodedovo airport, Moscow yesterday, in which at least 35 people died and 130 injured.

China Press led with former Penang Immigration chief Abdul Rahman Harun being charged by MACC with allegedly owning RM817,355 in assets while his emolument was only RM152,081. He pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Editorial

New Straits Times supported the call for health screenings of all elected representatives to be conducted by the Health Ministry.

Utusan Malaysia opined that the emergency assembly sitting in a bid to amend the constitution yesterday was a waste of time and criticised Khalid for being stubborn despite knowing that the changes will be rejected.

Berita Harian discussed PAS' choice for a woman candidate, Normala Sudirman, for the Tenang by-election. PAS was known to have stringent policies against women contesting for such positions and came in for some stick for making a U-turn in nominating Normala.

China Press praised MACC for doing a superb job and urged the government to make a provision that public servant and senior administrative staff in the private sector should declare their assets.

Nanyang Siang Pau urged the government to enhance the agriculture sector in order to cut dependency on imported food.

Sin Chew Daily stressed that economic development should emphasise on humanistic education, increasing social value and enhancing the construction of ideas.