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Security Bill and the all-powerful Executive

 Accountability, Human rights  5 Responses »
Apr 172012
 

Just as the Emergency (1948-1960) was replaced by the ISA in 1960, today the ISA neared its end with the passing of the Security Offences Bill 2012 in Parliament.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 10.37pm  Tagged with: ISA, Security Offences Bill

Smile, you are on AES cameras!

 Accountability, Malaysian finance/business, Other Asian countries  18 Responses »
Apr 092012
 

Large contracts have been awarded under a so-called “Automated Enforcement System” to Australian and German firms linked to two obscure local firms holding lucrative concessions for the supply and operation of more than a thousand traffic cameras and related software.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 10.49am  Tagged with: cameras, enforcement, summonses, traffic

Cheah Kok Leong’s life not in vain

 Accountability, Sustainable development  22 Responses »
Mar 312012
 

The life of Cheah Kok Leong, 29, son of former Asian Rare Earth factory labourer Lai Kwan, has not been in vain.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 12.24am  Tagged with: Asian Rare Earth, Cheah Kok Leong, Lynas Corporation

‘Why the worst infrastructure gets built’

 Accountability, Development issues, Public transport, Sustainable development  29 Responses »
Mar 232012
 

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.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 11.49pm  Tagged with: cost-benefit analysis, highways, infrastructure, tunnel

French Agosta sub now a Malacca museum piece

 Accountability, Militarism  24 Responses »
Mar 222012
 

A French-made SMD Ouessant Agosta 70 class submarine, acquired for training purposes when two Scorpene submarines were bought from France, is now lying as an open-air museum piece in Malacca.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 10.45am  Tagged with: Agosta, Melaka, submarine
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