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Well, you all know what PGCC is by now - the massive RM25 billion Penang Greenwash… err, I mean Global… City Centre project.
And CGCC? That’s Catastrophic Global Climate Change.
If we go ahead with PGCC, it would only add to CGCC.
If you are not convinced that building 37 “tombstones” (high-rise towers) on the Penang Turf Club [...]

Today, I dropped by to check out the Migrants Sunday celebrations organised by the Migrant Workers Support Centre on mainland Penang.
As I looked around at the gathering of workers from Burma, India, Indonesia and the Philippines, I couldn’t help thinking about the double standards we practise when we think of foreign workers.
Why should there be [...]

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Remember the name - Fahmi Reza, the worthy winner of the Freedom Film Festival 2007. Last night I headed for the opening day’s screenings at the Actors’ Studio in Penang, mainly to see Fahmi’s “Sepuluh tahun sebelum Merdeka” - and I was not disappointed. It was the best local political documentary I had seen. The [...]

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Well, say no more! As my academic friend observes:
…this is a sterling opportunity to draw out the oligarchic control of this country — a chance to pull away from the ethnic ding-dong that’s going on. Here is the oligarchy of wealth and privilege: an Indian lawyer, a Chinese tycoon, a Malay judge, [...]

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The new US ambassador to Malaysia, James Keith is urging both Malaysia and the United States to conclude a Free Trade Agreement after an earlier deadline in June was missed.
Of course, the US stands to benefit far more in such an “open market”. To draw an analogy, it would be like Manchester United playing [...]