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 gave prominence to a report that at least 20 government hospitals will be able to access patients’ medical records online by 2015.

Star shone its spotlight on demonstrations in Libya where leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son has warned of “rivers of blood” as the regime continues its brutal crackdowns on protestors.

Malay newspapers

Utusan Malaysia headlined that police have crippled three crime syndicates involved in drug dealing, car theft and illegal gambling in Penang, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Pahang.  

Berita Harian front-paged that the two men convicted of destroying evidence in the murder case of cosmetics moghul Sosilawati Lawiya will serve 20 years in jail.

Sinar Harian highlighted that Selangor Backbenchers Club chief Azmin Ali has called for the evaluation of the performance of state executive council members.  

Chinese newspapers

Sin Chew Daily also headlined the Libya uprising, reporting that pro-democracy protesters had captured major cities despite the deaths of more than 300 protesters to date.

Nanyang Siang Pau front-paged the Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Ministry’s new service which enables consumers to submit complaints to the Consumer Claims Tribunal via mobile text-message.

China Press led with the dramatic account of a motorist who knocked down two snatch thives on a motorcycle after they robbed her in Kuala Lumpur. One of them died.

Editorial

New Straits Times called for restraint and dialogue from both protestors and governments in the Middle Eastern countries where street protests are being held to demand regime change.

Berita Harian said the rotation system implemented in selected government departments to cut down on graft will help improve their image.

Utusan Malaysia said PAS and its spiritual leader have shown that they waver on principle issues, saying that Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat does not respond when DAP challenges Islam and sidelines Malays in Pakatan Rakyat-ruled states.

Sin Chew Daily said the three-day official visit of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to Turkey is an important new step in realising the nation's ‘new Asia-Europe policy’.

China Press urged the authorities to stop violence in campus elections.

Nanyang Siang Pau said the 5.8 percent dividend announced by Employees Provident Fund is not good enough. It said the government should not use the fund to bail out companies or to prop up the share market.