The RTD is coming up with a new scheme to encourage traffic offenders to settle their fines early. Has this got anything to do with the impending privatisation of the installation and maintenance of hundreds of traffic cameras across the country?
Activists and family members of ISA detainees turned up outside Parliament this morning to call for the release of all the detainees. Photograph: Suaram
These are selected leaked documents from the Directorate-General of the French National Police and the Judicial Police Directorate’s anti-organised and financial crimes unit.
MPPP Councillor Dr Lim Mah Hui has urged the Penang Island Municipal Council to engage more with the people and find ways to democratise the whole planning process.
Thousands of Pas supporters flocked to the Butterworth town field last night for another Pas ‘Perhimpunan Hijau ke Putrajaya’ gathering. Photograph: Harakah
Not long ago, I argued that the GDP growth rate is a hopelessly unreliable measure of economic well being. So I was pleased to hear that the UNDP is now moving beyond GDP and its own Human Development Index and laying the foundation for a new Sustainable Human Development Index.
The news that tycoon Syed Mokthar Al-Bukhary’s Seaport Terminal (Johor) Sdn Bhd has been allowed to take over Penang Port Sdn Bhd (PPSB) is disturbing.
I have been having a stuffed nose the last couple of weeks. Not much fun, that. Then this morning, I heard a relative in KL had a bad sore throat, presumably because of the air quality. 20 June 2012 – Graphic: weather.gov.sg
How do banks handle the trail of dirty money by corrupt politicians and businessmen? Do they bother to look behind the veil of shell companies, proxies, ‘commissions’ and off-shore tax havens?
Despite soaring prices in the state, Penang, especially the northeast district of Penang Island, appears to have a large property supply overhang. So why are the middle-income group on the Island finding it so hard to locate affordable housing?Graphic: Stuart MacDonald, Penang Institute
Update (20 June): Check out the response from the Borders’ management here.
19 June:
The store manager of the Mid-Valley Borders bookstore has reportedly been charged with distributing Irshad Manji’s book, ‘Allah, Liberty and Love’, which has been banned in Malaysia.
Photographs: NashitaMN 
