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Youths set out to register 2 million new voters
Two million new voters? How on earth are they going to do that?
Continue reading...Live – Perak State Assembly sitting
Thursday, April 1, 2010
We will be following what’s happening in and around the Perak State Assembly this morning. Pakatan assembly members march to the Dewan this morning – Photo by Jong After the sitting this morning, Nizar walked up to where Ganesan was presiding in the Dewan and criticised him for allegedly allowing police “to intrude into the Dewan”,
Continue reading...Images from outside the Perak State Assembly
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Scenes from before the opening ceremony of the new sitting of the Perak State Assembly yesterday and the Pakatan assembly members’ press conference immediately after. Photos by Jong
Continue reading...More worries about liberalisation of services
Saturday, May 2, 2009
It is disconcerting to see neoliberals in both Pakatan and the BN whole-heartedly welcoming Najib’s liberalisation of services. The DAP, MCA and Gerakan want liberalisation to be extended to other sectors; the MCA even mentioned national security and defence. No one is saying there shouldn’t be competition in certain sectors.
Continue reading...Perak Speaker wants all media to report on 7 May
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Yesterday a media notice sent out by the Perak Information Department indicated that only 13 media groups - all of them mainstream media - would be allowed to cover the controversial Perak State Assembly proceedings on 7-13 May. The 13 mainstream media outfits are RTM, Bernama TV, TV3, The Star, New Straits Times, Berita Harian, Utusan
Continue reading...This is what a walkabout in KL looks like
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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Continue reading...LIVE: No ‘kejutan besar’… Mansor Othman it is
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
2213: The worst kept secret is officially revealed: Mansor Othman has been chosen as the PKR candidate for the Penanti by-election on 31 May.
Continue reading...Free market champion admits his ideology wasn’t right
Sunday, April 26, 2009
They got it wrong: the regulators who thought the liberalised financial sector would work just fine by itself, and stock market pundits and the financial media who were giving the public a false sense of security ahead of the crash. “I was shocked”: Alan Greenspan, a longtime ideological champion of free competitive markets and deregulation, admits under official
Continue reading...Fried chicken, anyone?
Friday, April 24, 2009
We live in a globalised world that is full of inequalities.
Continue reading...“You are not green unless your food is green”
Monday, April 20, 2009
More people are now talking about the need to reduce our carbon footprint. But the discussion is largely focused on improving public transport, avoiding plastic bags (a commendable move which the Penang government is now implementing) or recycling and re-using. But that is not enough.
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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
Asides 
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
Thursday, April 1, 2010
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