Today is exactly 50 years since Pope John XXIII opened Vatican II, the most important worldwide church council since the early church. The Council ushered in a ground-breaking process of continuous Pentecostal renewal.
The Tanjung Bunga Residents’ Association, together with Teh Yee Cheu, the Adun for Tanjong Bunga, held a press conference this morning to highlight the pollution at the Tanjung 1 project, a huge high-rise condominium development between the Cove and the Penang Swimming Club.
Hot on the heels of the highly generous 12-year tax-free status for Lynas Corporation comes another huge ‘GIFT’ – this time for the oil and gas big boys.
Update (13 October): Anglican Diocese has no plans to sell St Nicholas site, says NgDevelopers are eyeing the 2.4ha land on which sits St Nicholas’ Home, run by the Anglican Church. The home will probably have to move to an alternative site from its present landmark site at Bagan Jermal.
It’s a full house at the Caring Society hall in Penang, with Bersih co-chair Ambiga Sreenevasan the main speaker at a forum on Democracy and Elections, organised by social reform group Aliran.
So the Pope’s whistle-blowing butler gets an 18-month jail term – though he could be pardoned – for having in his possession and leaking confidential Vatican documents about corruption and other sensitive matters to the media.
Malaysia’s proposal for the controversial multibillion ringgit Padma Bridge project appears to be fizzling out, after several Bangladesh press reports described it as ‘not viable’ and ’empty’.
I am not sure what is so ‘heritage’ about this ‘mothership’, which has parked itself at one side of the plans for the Penang Heritage Square near Komtar.
As the streets in Penang become increasingly congested, bicycles are making a comeback. As more and more Penangites pedal around, the quiet cycling revolution is getting noticed in the media.
The latest rankings by Times Higher Education are out, but where are the Malaysian universities? This is a reflection of the dismal standards to which they have sunk.
Is income inequality an inevitable result of full-blown meritocracy, allowing the ‘cream’ to capitalise on their talents and skills to raise their income levels, or are there other structural forces at play?
A whistle-blowing butler to the Pope is being put on trial in the Vatican for aggravated theft after he leaked confidential papers and letters in the pontiff’s possession in a bid to expose alleged corruption.
A unique electoral exercise in Penang state, promoting participatory and gender-responsive decision-making at the grassroots level, may serve as a cue for the revival of local elections in Malaysia.A child casts his vote as an election observer monitors the process
Several thousand people gathered this morning for a rally in Pengerang to protest against a massive RM60bn petrochemical project in a move that could further loosen the BN’s electoral strangehold on Johor.The rally in Pengerang this morning – Photograph: Harakah
The government has shown it is not serious about curbing speculation in the property market by announcing such a small increase in real property gains tax (RPGT) in the Budget.
