The British High Commission is hosting a ‘Chevening Talk Series – Penang showcase’ in partnership with Penang Forum on Saturday, 24 February, from 10.30am to noon at Black Kettle @Beach Street, George Town, Penang.
The theme is Sustainable Urbanisation: A Myth or Reality?
Come and be part of this lively discussion with panellist Zairil Khir Johari, Penang DAP vice chairman and Bukit Bendera MP; Surin Suksuwan, regional director of Proforest South East Asia; Andrew Ng, independent documentary filmmaker; and Khoo Salma, heritage activist and Penang Island City Councillor.
Find out more about the Penang state government’s initiatives towards a more sustainable, inclusive urbanisation; the importance of ecological sustainability; the role of youth in shaping the sustainable development agenda and ways Penang can be made more culturally vibrant!
The session will be moderated by Aliran activist and writer, Anil Netto.
Register to RSVP: bit.ly/ctsmalaysia
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Politics in Malaysia is about sustainable inflow to pockets with non-tender contracts.
Don’t forget the cheap bungalow & Merc@discount price. No traces mah. Clever but it doesn’t mean clean!
Karma is watching closely!
Another of Felda’s mega investment has gone down the drain! Its US$500 million (more than RM2 billion) purchase of a 37% stake in Eagle High Plantation a year ago is now valued at US155 million, less than a third of its purchase price, and expected to go further down. This purchase from Najib’s buddy Peter Sondakh was rammed through against fierce criticism arising from the purchase cost being double the market price, and from a host of problems which caused the company to have suffered persistent losses for years in succession. This bad news follows a series of mega corruption… Read more »
Malaysia fell to No. 62 in a global corruption index last year, down seven spots from 2016, marking its lowest position since the Transparency International (TI) index began in 1995. According to the Corruption Perceptions Index 2017, other countries, such as Cuba, Romania, Jordan, Greece, Saudi Arabia and Croatia, have now overtaken Malaysia. It is the third year that the country has slipped in the anti-graft watchdog’s rankings, based on perceived corruption in the public sector. TI said further analysis of the results indicated that countries with the least protection for the press and civil society organisations tended to have… Read more »
Najib BN’s report card on corruption KPI is very impressive, making us infamous in the eyes of the world. Certainly NBOS and that Paul guy has failed miserably.
MACC Chief got a shock of his life or is it wayang-wayang?
Another Failing Blue Ocean Strategy of reverse psychology???
Wayang wayang and fly kites. See what happen to phee? One year oredi hoping rakyat mudah lupa. Orso what happen to sri tan and eia eng and all those work interviews. Trying to find needle in haystak to build castle in the air. Ah soon, calvin and dummo engineer are birds of the same feather.
MACC’s response is to create its own index.
Whistleblowers like Rafizi exposing NFC corruption got jailed, while the cow lady got Tan Sri title.
No wonder the world outside BN circle has no confidence in the integrity and transparency in combating corruption in this country.
Now MACC want to create its own index to stick sendiri?
From the howls of criticism of Selangor govt. (Ijok), EPF (foreign investment), etc., you would not know that quite a few GLCs are siphoning money out for so-called investment, needless housing or office space (which can be rented), foreign materrials and supplies (instead of local ones), con-sultants, etc. This raises questions: (a) is investment in their charter? (b) were they audited? (c) if there were losses, how many have been jailed and for how long? If the pretentious tuans in charge have difficulty understanding the issue or acting on it, they can consult China.
Good to see a prolific political commentator Kim Quek contributing to this blog.
Folklore has it that Marie-Antoinette, queen of France as the French Revolution was beginning, retorted when told about starving peasants, “Let them eat cake”. Her people soon exacted their form of justice in response to her uncaring indifference to their suffering. Now it would seem that Najib has come up with his version which reflects his attitude about the sufferings of many Malaysians due to inflation and GST: “Let them eat quinoa.”
PM Najib must be wondering whether he is cursed with bad luck all the way from Langkawi to EPF, now the food he eats has become a talking point, so much about the sedan he has been feeding his cronies. Now many will be wondering to find out what else he eats although what matters the most is that he has caused hardship with his GST and subsidy removing policies that affect almost everyone with high cost of living. The fact that BN has left behind more than RM800 Billions debts, high living costs, Felda scandals and losses, worsening of… Read more »
Karl Marx explained that the more unregulated and profitable capitalism became, the sooner it would crash. Unfortunately, we will all suffer under this insane belief and propaganda, on an ongoing basis and even more when it crashes. The victims of lost jobs, poisonous manufacture and products, harmful narcotics (legal and illegal), etc. are spread globally, within and outside the Empire. E.g. long-term poisons are being dumped into the soil, water and air. It only takes about $1 billion to buy off the entire US govt. The profit from Afghan heroin alone is about $65 billion/PER YEAR. If you are willing… Read more »
Kindly update us the readers the conclusion of the talk, a myth or a reality?
I was told many Caucasians (Mat Salleh) in the audience, and care to share your comments here???
Any video recording of the event on YouTube?
Urbanization at Prai with Penang Sentral taking shape:
Expert: For a sustainable city, people and government must form a pact https://malaysia.yahoo.com/news/expert-sustainable-city-people-government-must-form-pact-232100482.html KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 — Government agencies, local councils and ordinary people should collectively look at a viable approach to create cities resilient to urban challenges, an expert from a US-based non-profit said. Failing to do that, the 100 Resilient Cities (100 RC) programme, which is working with Melaka and 99 other cities, said all will crumble and the rapid development as seen in most developing nations, including Malaysia, will go to waste. “Many think about the short-term solutions to the impact of say, earthquake, flooding and… Read more »
Any update or video recording of the Talk Show?
Ah Pen in Talk video so Anil May not release the video to conceal his identity???
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2018/02/20/german-court-could-open-way-to-bans-on-diesel-cars/
“… there is no more immediate action than reducing traffic.” Shall we continue burying our heads in the sand?
Sustainable? The show has just started. We are sleep-walking into the TPP trap.
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/highlight/2018/02/22/tpp-deal-nears-reality-as-final-version-released/
One Belt One Road also a trap, cheap and easy loan is the first step.
So is One Sea Tunnel also a trap, cheap and easy loan is the first step that Penangites will have to bear for generations!
Pls quit blaming not enough state development fund if not for swapping much need state lands (for social housing) like sea water!!!
Ah pek, no money paid only barter trade.
One Sea Tunnel also a trap, cheap & easy loan a first step to generations burden for Penangites!
Some relevant points:
https://www.alternet.org/local-peace-economy/theres-much-smarter-way-cities-plan-their-futures
Not that our masters don’t know these issues.
Expensive venue for ordinary folks to attend, a cup of Black Kettle Coffee not affordable to many unless YB Zairil can sponsor? What say you Mr Moderator???
No need to buy coffee. Just listen and participate.
Ah pek, is all free, so dont worry. Buf I worried ah pek has nothing to ssy and sit in a corner but here can talk big.
Why no represetative from Gerakan or PCM in this forum?
They are power crazy. Interested for votes to get back to power
After the event, can proceed to Mugshot Cafe at Chulia Street for coffee and further discussion – good place for Anil and readers to mingle to exchange ideas.
Can ask ah pek for recommendation. He is no 1 which kopi tiam to lim kopi. Ah pek has many kang tau and can get discount if there is a mass gravity. Want to eat, he knows which one ton mee or curry mee.
Anil, is shrieking allow @ the talk show?
Pls enlighten us, esp the one who shrieks everyday.
Nevermind he won’t be coming from PJ, a long way from shrieking hole!
I don’t think the sound system can take it!
You mean the live-Skyping-shrieking from PJ?
How to blame Ah pek? So forgetful? Hope ah pej find his way home after the forum or go to the right place. In the past, hope ah pek attend right chinese marrige dinner
Someone please teach ah pek to use smartphone to hail Grab car to send him home.
Not relevant to topic! Chou Chou Cat!
Ah pek still thinking of sa len cair or three wheeler or trishaw which is part of his happy days. But with 4wds, ah pek can go belum or atas. Big talk about environ but his 4wds but pg island can really sustain a 4wds?
You need someone to teach you manners!
No worry, Ah pek senior citizen can talk first, question first and sit in front. Even seats reserved for seniors. Not enough time, the session is planned and can adjourned to the cafe session. Kong hee huat chye for good opportunity. Anil, please prepare video and blog on this
Safeguard state land for the people, not developers Read more at https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/413101#r1tRkBRBvMFqlqwZ.99 COMMENT | The Ijok land controversy highlights an important national issue that affects thousands of rural and urban Malaysians and, thus, it is one on which voters need to demand a clear stand by the two coalitions in GE14. The issue at the heart of this controversy is the need to safeguard state land for public housing, sustainable farming and other public purposes and not sell it off – often for a song – to private developers. In Penang, the state has sold land reclamation rights to private… Read more »
Ah pek is throwing the bullets here but at the forum, no more bullets left.
Why Ah pek dont stand for election? We vote him, he is a very good shouter
Ah pek forget penang is hundreds of times smaller than johor. Pg island has mt everest and johor is like singland and the highest hill bkt gombak is only 300 ft. Many like ah pek and raj will not move to seberang and more flock to islAand. Pg orso has an international airport and has to expand but ah pek deep silence. Ah pek forgets state has to find its own way to raise revenue to fund benefits to pg lang. Pahang state debts are piling up so high that ah pek cannot see but ah pek can see penang… Read more »
Johor residents welcome foreign investments generally, but favour investments from neighbouring Singapore over those from China, says a recent survey.
Johoreans do not see themselves benefiting from China’s growing economic presence in the state, largely in the form of multibillion-ringgit property developments. They view Chinese investments with a mixture of disinterest and suspicion, mainly because the bulk of these investments were in high-end real estate, driving up housing prices and many of those buying the newly completed units will not be local. They also believe that Chinese projects do not provide enough local job opportunities.
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/johoreans-prefer-spore-investments
Norman, don’t take things at simplistic face value if not spinning. FYI, do you know the real happenings in property development. Let me enlighten you for your ignorant sake: My nephew who is working in KL housing industry told me the Chinese (fr. PRC) developers ‘generally’ recruit their own people for most jobs here except for some menial jobs farmed out to foreign Indon workers. Locals get some jobs but not as what you imagined in your assumption of generous PRC Chinese developers. Even material like iron & steel come straight from China. Interior designers from China? Over in Johor,… Read more »
You might add that [a number of] condominium in Johor is royalty-linked this no adverse comment for fear of backlash. Remember how Tun M comment on Forest City?
You might go berserk should BN regain Penang and bring in PRC developers…
It is impolite to call someone ignorant as though you are more informed. A little bit of courtesy while online will gain you more respect.
Ah pek’s era marlo bando the godfather and brush off everyone
Ah pek, year if dog barks only. What is your solution? Your nephew another high class migrant to kl.
It boils down to central gomen. Right education, technical training and vocation. We are used to have migrants to do low level factory jobs and in the construction industry
Don’t have facts but gao-gao spinning!
Btw, you ignorant, my nephew is a construction engineer.
Your no fact but gao-gao spinning untruth & nonsense shows what you really are!
Btw, why morph from zoro to shriek? zoro cannot tahan ah??? Or paymaster stop paying to zoro???