Now you can watch Fahmi Reza’s hartal film
Go here to watch Fahmi Reza’s outstanding film on the 1947 hartal - the winner of the 2007 Freedom Film Festival. It’s worth the watch.
Archive for October, 2007
Surprise! Migrant workers from Malaysia remit more home
While Malaysians tend to look down on neighbouring countries because their workers are forced to work abroad and remit money home, few of us realise that, as a percentage of GDP, migrant workers from Malaysia remit more home than those from Indonesia and Thailand.
Wanna peek into the future…?
From one sorry-looking tower to another two: This is what the PGCC will look like from Komtar - but please, please remember that there are going to be 38 other high-rise towers in front of the crooked twin towers!
Just read a Star report that says Penang Chief Minister Koh Tsu Koon has rejected ’suggestions’ (I [...]
Why are we subsidising the profitable IPPs?
Why are Malaysians - via Petronas - providing billions of ringgit in gas subsidies to the profitable IPPs?
And yet, the government is always complaining it has to pay so much in fuel subsidies for the people. What about the gas subsidies to the IPPs? The owners of the IPPs are not exactly poor. [...]
Toh Kin Woon, the BN’s most principled politician
I was glad to see the Malaysiakini interview with Toh Kin Woon and sorry to hear that he is retiring from politics soon.
I would say Toh, the Gerakan vice-chairman and Penang state exco member, is the most principled politician in the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition. He has called for the abolition of the Internal Security [...]
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