Update (12.06pm): The four have now been released. Four PSM members were detained on the way to a gathering at Teluk Rubiah in Perak this morning.
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Update (12.06pm): The four have now been released. Four PSM members were detained on the way to a gathering at Teluk Rubiah in Perak this morning.
When big ticket infrastructure projects such as highways, tunnels, bridges and airports are pushed through, the lack of proper business plans and robust cost-benefit analyses is often glaring.
The Unesco heritage listing has had a side-effect: people are snapping up shophouses, driving up the prices to ridiculous levels, in the process altering the economic, social and cultural landscape of the city.
First, grand designs for a tunnel, and now plans for a monorail for the Butterworth-Bagan Ajam-Kepala Batas and the Butterworth-Sungai Dua-Tasek Gelugor routes.
The North and Central Seberang Perai Local Plans are now on public display – but most people remain in the dark.