Former Penang Chief Minister Koh Tsu Koon made a brief appearance in Butterworth to dish out cheques to representatives of mission schools in Kedah and Penang.Santa Koh has come early this year
From what I hear there is invariably a little group close at hand at Speakers’ Square on Sundays – sometimes a little too close for comfort as Susan Loone of Malaysiakini found out during the launch of the Local Democracy Festival in Penang.“No spinning!” – Photograph: Susan Loone’s Facebook
Cycling is cool – and it is making a comeback and even growing in popularity. More than 3000 cyclists are expected to pedal round Penang Island tomorrow.
Malaysian archer Hasihin Sanawi won a silver medal in the men’s individual recurve W1/W2 final – the country’s first medal at the London Paralympic Games.
A group of about 20 protesters arrived at the PKR headquarters on Wednesday, 5 September and a commotion and an angry exchange of words ensued with some 40 PKR supporters.
A Penang DAP Raya open house celebration in George Town was disrupted by unruly protesters believed to be petty traders, many of them from out of town, who had been subject to MPPP enforcement action for unlicensed trading.
Few people are aware that the famous Indian Nobel laureate for literature, Rabindranath Tagore, visited Penang in 1927. He also passed by this way in 1916, 1924 and 1929. Tagore was here – Photograph courtesy of sayaanakbangsamalaysia.net
Not everyone who wanted to raise questions at the recent Penang Forum 5 had the opportunity due to time constraints. So organisers allowed participants to submit written questions; close to 70 were received.
Feeder buses will begin plying from Juru and Bandar Perda on the mainland today to link up with the Bridge Express Shuttle Transit (Best) bus service.Graphic: Rapid Penang
Some 20000 people have gathered in Raub for the Himpunan Hijau Raub gathering to protest against the use of cyanide and to press for the closure of a gold mining plant here.
Our ‘favourite’ guy’s YouYube clip has unsurprisingly been classified as ‘private’ by the person who uploaded it in the first place (see earlier entry below). Not to worry, someone else has posted a copy on YouTube.
