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0 The 5km-Jelutong Expressway still poses a couple a niggling questions. This RM700 million expressway was supposedly built “free of charge” – with no toll imposed on motorists – under a privatisation exercise mooted in 1997. But at what cost to Penang? The rights to the reclamation of close to 300 acres of prime sea-front land, in addition to [...] 10 By the time the ceramah ended, the crowd at the site had swelled to 20,000. 2225: A crowd of 10,000 is now listening to a speech by PKR secretary general Saifuddin Nasution at a Pakatan ceramah at the Seberang Jaya expo site on mainland Penang, according to a veteran journalist at the scene. 0 How do excessive federal powers affect Penang and other states in Malaysia? To understand some of the constraints that state governments, especially Pakatan-ruled states, are operating under, check out this report in theSun on the Penang Forum. NGOs alarmed at excessive federal govt powers GEORGE TOWN (March 7, 2010): The impact of widespread federalism, or entrenched federal [...] |
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