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Live – Perak State Assembly sitting
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...Muhyiddin for Malaysia “not available!”
Thursday, April 1, 2010
How apt that Deputy Prime Minister’s new My-Malaysia website, bearing the tag line ‘Muhyiddin Yassin for Malaysia’ is now “not available!” That says a lot. The website was launched at the end of January. But now – poof! – it has vanished without a trace
Continue reading...Thunderbolt for MCA: Soi Lek, CC members quit
Friday, March 5, 2010
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...This Christmas, give them hope…
Thursday, December 24, 2009
If you are wondering how you can make the year-end extra meaningful, why not think of the Monfort Youth Centre in Malacca.
Continue reading...Jomo’s warning and a film in Papan
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Listen to what UN Assistant Secretary-General K S Jomo, an economist from Malaysia, has to say about the perils of financial liberalisation, as reported in theSun: A bigger crisis awaits Malaysia if we continue on the path of financial liberalisation and fail to learn the right lessons from the last economic downturn in the late 1990s,
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...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
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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
Thursday, April 1, 2010
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