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MPSP warns developers to bide by regulations

 Sustainable development  5 Responses »
May 192012
 

In the biggest such operation by the Seberang Perai Municipal Council (MPSP), four construction sites on mainland Penang were issued stop-work orders on 2 April for not complying with drainage requirements.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 11.04am  Tagged with: construction sites, developers, MPSP, Seberang Prai

Sg Ara residents want MPPP to block hill-slope project

 Sustainable development  11 Responses »
May 132012
 
Sg Ara residents want MPPP to block hill-slope project

About 100 residents of Sg Ara staged a protest this morning against an RM800m luxury property development project on the hill-slopes of their area.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 5.35pm  Tagged with: hill-slope, property development, Sungai Ara

Splash of green at Bersih 3.0

 Civil society, Democracy, Development issues, Sustainable development  10 Responses »
May 122012
 

Much has been written about the yellow shirts of Bersih 3.0 on 28 April, but there was also a noticeable number of green-shirted protesters. Who were they?

 Posted by Anil Netto at 7.04pm  Tagged with: Bersih, Bukit Koman, gold mining, Himpunan Hijau, Lynas

RM900 minimum wage well below workers’ demand

 FTAs, Neo-liberal economics, Sustainable development, Workers' rights  11 Responses »
May 012012
 
RM900 minimum wage well below workers' demand

Between 500 and 1000 workers have marched from Central Market to Dataran Maybank to mark Workers’ Day.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 11.38am  Tagged with: minimum wage, workers

How local democracy shut down Japan’s nuclear power plants

 Civil society, Democracy, Energy resources, Environment, Other Asian countries, Sustainable development  5 Responses »
Apr 212012
 

Fearing a public backlash at local polls, no local government in Japan would dare to re-start a reactor in their locality now.

 Posted by Anil Netto at 11.55pm  Tagged with: elections, Japan, local democracy, nuclear power plants, Okinawa
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