Penang tunnel-highways: CAP vs CM (Round 2)
The most recent exchange between CAP president S M Idris and Penang CM Lim Guan Eng.
Pope washes feet of prisoners, including Muslim woman (Video)
In a Holy Thursday service that highlights Jesus’ call to serve with humility, Pope Francis broke with Vatican tradition by washing the feet of juvenile offenders (including women, atheists and people of other faiths).
GE13: The real reasons for going into ‘extra time’
Martin Jalleh summarises Ambiga’s debunking of The Star’s four reasons for the delay in the general election while blog reader Stephen suggests the real reasons.
Economic costs of excessive dependence on cars (Video)
Often, in our urban planning, we fail to take into account the full economic and environmental costs of policies/projects that promote an excessive dependence on private motor vehicles.
Prioritising people over cars: The Curitiba story (Video)
Watch what happens when a visionary mayor, Jaime Lerner (now retired), sets about transforming the city of Curitiba, Brazil, into a model of sustainable development and urban planning.
Election of Pope Francis: A dream realised … 800 years later?
Pope Francis is set to lead the transformation of the church – a return perhaps to the trajectory that the Second Vatican Council had envisioned. This is an article I wrote for the latest edition of the Herald.
Phweeeet! We are now into GE extra time
The ‘referee’s whistle’ for full-time at the Negeri Sembilan state assembly has sounded, and we are now into ‘extra time’, which means the general election must be held before the end of May, if it is to be held simultaneously with the state elections. Tommy Thomas elaborates.
Pope Francis shuns official residence, opts for guesthouse
Pope Francis has shunned the regal papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace in Rome and will instead live in the Vatican guesthouse “until further notice”.
Pope Francis ‘supports sainthood for Oscar Romero’: The Tablet
Pope Francis is said to be strongly in favour of the canonisation of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who was shot dead while celebrating Mass in 1980 after he had spoken out against the brutal regime in that country.
10000 throng Anwar ceramah in Umno bastion in Johor (Video)
This video clip is of Anwar speaking at the Umno bastion of Kampung Melayu Majidee in Johor on 23 March 2013.
BFM Uncensored interviews Anwar Ibrahim (Video)
BFM Uncensored interviews Anwar Ibrahim about Project IC, the NEP, his sexual orientation, and his political journey.
Radio Free Malaysia makes debut (Audio)
Radio Free Malaysia, an offshoot of Radio Free Sarawak, went on air last night, broadcasting in Malay. Check out its inaugural transmission last night (below).
Tunnel-highways: CAP statement and CM’s reply
Below is the statement by the Consumers Association of Penang opposing the highways-tunnel mega project followed by Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s response.
Citizens Chant group holds public dialogue on Penang tunnel project
The Citizens Chant group is holding a public dialogue on the Penang tunnel project on 27 March.
Call for RCI on Sarawak corruption draws over 10000 signatures
An e-petition calling for a royal commission of inquiry to probe corruption in Sarawak following the Global Witness sting expose has drawn 10000 signatures already.
Tunnel-highways: Is Penang moving backwards?
Former international banker Dr Lim Mah Hui, a Penang Steering Committee member, made this presentation during a public dialogue with the Penang Chief Minister.
Taib Mahmud patched up differences with Rahman Ya’kub in 2008
They embraced not once but twice. Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud and his uncle Rahman Ya’kub buried the hatchet five years ago.
Aliran: Najib must step down pending probe
The Aliran ExCo has called on Najib to step down as premier pending a probe into lawyer Americk Sidhu’s revelation about who was really behind the second statutory declaration purportely made by the late PI Bala.