Looking beyond Jho Low

 Accountability, Energy resources, Malaysian finance/business  20 Responses »
Jul 312010
 

In his ‘world exclusive’ interview with the Star, Jho Low spent a lot of time talking about his contacts in the Middle-East and how he got to know them during his school and college days. It sounded like an attempt at damage control. Anyway, I am not interested in his parties with the celebrities. What do you make of the Wynton Group’s website here? What I wanted to learn more about was the rationale behind the Terengganu Investment Authority and his links with local politicians. (After all, we already know he is familiar with Taib Mahmud’s son in UBG.)

More on the 20 Pykett Avenue land deal

 Accountability, Development issues, Malaysian finance/business  18 Responses »
Jul 292010
 

Some details about the deal involving the 20 Pykett Avenue building, whose demolition over the weekend caught the MPPP by surprise. In December 2009, the Mah Sing board announced to Bursa Malaysia that its subsidiary Klassik Tropika had entered into a sale and purchase agreement to acquire the 3.4-acre freehold property from Khaw Bian Cheng Sdn Bhd for RM38 million. There were two private caveats on the land. Khaw Bian Cheng Sdn Bhd was supposed to transfer the land free from all encumbrances and with vacant possession. (I guess you could say it is now ‘vacant possession’.)

UK all-parliamentary group chief writes to Taib

 Accountability, Development issues, Environment, Europe, M'sian politics, Malaysian finance/business, Marginalised groups  15 Responses »
Jul 262010
 
UK all-parliamentary group chief writes to Taib

The chairman of the British parliament’s All Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal peoples, MP Martin Horwood, has written to Taib Mahmud expressing concern about the plight of the Penan as the Sarawak chief minister arrived in the UK. A barrage of placards greeted Taib at Oxford University’s Said Business School this morning – Photo credit: Survival “The Penan have frequently been subject to violence and intimidation at the hands of loggers operating on their land… Without recognition of their land rights, the Penan are struggling to provide for themselves, and are left vulnerable to violence and exploitation,” Horwood wrote, according to Survival, the movement for tribal peoples.

MPPP’s slow response frustrates worried TBRA

 Accountability, Development issues, Environment, Malaysian finance/business  26 Responses »
Jul 262010
 

Unlike the MPPP’s prompt, decisive action in the case of an RMAF hostel following a complaint from a neighbouring resident, the council appears slow to respond in another nearby project, despite repeated reminders from a residents group. The RMAF hostel was being constructed without the plans being approved. In the case of the Bolton Surin project on a steep hill-slope, neighbouring residents are concerned for a number of reasons. The frustrated Tanjung Bunga Residents Association has sent yet another email to the MPPP which it says will be its final message to the council. The group wants answers to the following questions: Yesterday, Sunday, 25 July 2010, the developer of Bolton Surin was at it again – working on so-called electrical and other construction work (which caused quite a din, by and by), when we believed that they are supposed not to be working on a rest day.

British NGOs to hold protest at Oxford U

 Accountability, Civil society, Education and students' rights, Environment, Europe, M'sian politics, Malaysian finance/business  16 Responses »
Jul 262010
 

Oxford University is being heavily criticised for extending an invitation to Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud. British civil society groups have announced a protest rally today in front of the Saïd Business School.

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