Update (22 May 2012): Hello, hello, turns out that our expensive cars ‘petty trader’ is reportedly an Umno member, who is believed to be close to a Cabinet Minister (see this FMT report). Just as I thought. 21 May 2012: The so-called Kuala Lumpur Petty Traders Action Council, representing 60 traders, is organising an anti-Bersih bazaar outside Ambiga’s house. The group’s leader is pictured leaning against ‘his Ferrari’ (according to Utusan) – or is that a Lamborghini? (I’m hopeless with cars.) Some petty trader.Jamal Md Yunos with 'his Ferrari' - Photograph: Utusan
A memorial vigil for Mey Sichan, a Cambodian domestic worker found starved to death, was harassed by a few hecklers at Speakers’ Square in Penang yesterday evening.
Ambiga and the Bersih team have sent a message to all Malaysians after she was forced to cancel her speaking engagement in Merlimau following reports that it could be harassed or disrupted.
In the biggest such operation by the Seberang Perai Municipal Council (MPSP), four construction sites on mainland Penang were issued stop-work orders on 2 April for not complying with drainage requirements.
Retired army captain Hussaini Abdul Karim says he would have disciplined the crude ‘bottoms-up’ army veterans and sent them for rehabilitation if he had been their senior officer. Azmi Sharom adds a dose of sarcasm for good measure.
US trade reps at the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in Dallas were left red-faced on Friday, when activists gatecrashed a welcome gala and presented the US Trade Rep with a fake award for bulldozing through the Big Business/MNC agenda. (Malaysia is also involved in the secret TPP negotiations.)
About 100 residents of Sg Ara staged a protest this morning against an RM800m luxury property development project on the hill-slopes of their area.Sungai Ara residents protest against hill-slope projects todayView of the project sites from Sungai Ara town near the Shell petrol station
Much has been written about the yellow shirts of Bersih 3.0 on 28 April, but there was also a noticeable number of green-shirted protesters. Who were they?
More than 1000 lawyers have turned up for the Malaysian Bar’s extraordinary general meeting on Bersih 3.0 this afternoon, dispelling doubts raised in the mainstream media that the Bar might not raise a quorum.
Umno supporters have started trooping into Bukit Jalil Stadium for the party’s 66th anniversary gathering tonight. Photograph: kamerakupang.blogspot.com
