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Thunderbolt for MCA: Soi Lek, CC members quit
Ooh la la, what have we go here: Chua Soi Lek has quit as MCA deputy chief while seven other MCA central committee members are expected to resign as well, according to a tweet from the Insider.
Continue reading...Bad news from Copenhagen; Vroom! in Malaysia
Monday, December 21, 2009
Folks, it’s bad news from the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen as the nations of the world failed to agree on a common platform to reduce the threat. There is no Copenhagen climate treaty. History was not made; no deal was sealed.
Continue reading...Second Penang bridge concession is 45 years?
Friday, December 18, 2009
I have just learned from a reliable source that the concession period for the controversial 17-km second Penang bridge is a staggering 45 years. File picture of second Penang Bridge construction site at Batu Kawan – Photo by Anil And that source is the Malaysian Highway Authority’s Annual Report for 2008 – although it doesn’t indicate when
Continue reading...Let them know what you think of local elections
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
So the PR is apparently divided over the issue of local council elections ahead of its convention, according to the Malaysian Insider. Ai-yah, like that also cannot agree! What’s the problem? Still want to follow the old BN way of rewarding supporters through appointments to local town councils?
Continue reading...CAT scans, mammograms: Be aware of the risks
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Just a little public service announcement regarding what they don’t usually tell you. Beware the cancer risk of CAT scans. Also read up on the raging debate sparked by a federally funded US task force of physicians which found that the benefits of regular mammography for women between 40 and 50 are outweighed by the
Continue reading...Tamiflu: US$3b spent – but does it really work?
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
This is something that I have been wondering about for a while now.
Continue reading...Unemployed graduates in Malaysia
Sunday, December 13, 2009
While the uproar over the BTN continues, let’s look at what happens to some of our university students after they graduate. The following was the answer received by Selayang MP William Leong in Parliament recently: In 2004, there were 4,594 unemployed graduates of whom 163 were Chinese, 207 were Indians and 4,060 were Malays; In 2005, there
Continue reading...Confusion over Batu Kawan monorail test track
Thursday, December 10, 2009
MRails International Sdn Bhd states on its website that the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) has “authorised our consortium to implement a monorail test track for 1.3km in Batu Kawan (near Stadium), Penang”. The Edge weekly had reported in October that the state had in principle given the green light to businessman Jeyakumar Varathan, believed to be
Continue reading...Azhar’s antics on Youtube
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
In this era of Youtube, elected reps had better be on their toes when discharging their duties as they are coming under ever greater public scrutiny. Three video clips show Penang Opposition Leader (from Umno/BN) Azhar Ibrahim apparently gesturing with his rear on two different occasions at the Penang State Assembly last week
Continue reading...Sarawak’s disappearing rainforests
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
For a long time, activists had believed that rainforests in the vast northwest Borneo state of Sarawak were being logged unsustainably, rapidly making way for tree (acacia) plantations, oil palm plantations, dams and secondary growth. But few listened. Their position was confirmed when the country’s auditor-general presented to Parliament in October its 2008 annual report criticising
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- What happens when it rains in northern Penang
- Botanic Garden arches to come down!
- Abolish ISA protest in Trafalgar Square
- Canadian property market receives lift
- Leaning Arch of Penang: A poem
- Leaning Arch: Now you can’t measure the tilt!
- Berjaya-owned Sun spotlights sports betting
- Is this the shape of things to come?
- Pyschopaths on the loose
- Sarawak NCR land development: A raw deal
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This is the scene when it pours in Chee Seng Gardens, next to a controversial condo development project, which has exposed the hill-slopes. Elsewhere, the sea off Miami Bay and Moonlight Bay turns a muddy orange. Photos by Chee Seng Garden residents and Hymeir Kamarudin of Batu Feringghi Something must be done
The much criticised Penang Botanic Garden arches, one of which is tilting, are to come down, the Tourism Minister announced today. Apparently the decision was made after another survey in USM revealed that 71 per cent of 1,225 respondents surveyed at the Garden wanted the arches removed. I am told Ng Yen Yen also
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Botanic Garden arches to come down!The Abolish ISA Movement (UK) held another demonstration outside the Tourism Malaysia office on Saturday, 26 June 2010. Click on icon on bottom right of frame to toggle to full-screen mode – Photos by Danny Lim
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Abolish ISA protest in Trafalgar Square
Friday, March 5, 2010
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