Lim Mah Hui and Kevin Gallagher warn that the Trans-Pacific Partnership could make it difficult for participating nations to regulate speculative capital flows to protect their economies from financial crises.
Ananda Krishnan’s sale of his power generation assets at this time raises a number of questions and concerns – more so as the assets are being sold to 1MDB, whose debt is guaranteed by the federal government.
Khalid Samad, the MP for Shah Alam, had a bad throat and was sucking lozenges. He had been barn-storming the ceramah trail, countering criticism from his one-time Pas ally, Hasan Ali, that there was a “parasite” group within the party.
BFM Uncensored interviews Bersih chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan on the (dirty) state of Malaysian politics and what she expects in the coming general election.
It is not just household debt as a percentage of GDP that we should be concerned about, but household debt compared to disposable income is even more crucial. Take a look at the yellow bar to see where we stand.Comparison of household debt/GDP and household debt/disposable income. Source: Yong, 2010; Endut and Toh, 2009; Bank Negara, 2010. - Graph: Penang Monthly
Another commotion on 1 March, when three Kajang municipal councillors and several others tried to attend the ground-breaking ceremony of SRJK (C) Bandar Sungai Long, Selangor, minutes before PM Najib arrived.
MAS is in crisis after it posted a loss of RM2.5bn for 2011 while its short-term liquidity faces serious challenges with net current assets plunging deeper into the red to the tune of RM4.4bn.
Lynas Corp and management team, the people have spoken. In case you have difficulty hearing, listen carefully to the voices in this video by Victor Chin.
In a police report, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng describes the ugly scenes on Sunday, when thugs disrupted the Stop Lynas event at Speakers’ Square.
Another incident of thuggish behaviour. A man lunged forward towards Nurul Izzah during her ceramah in Gambang, Pahang on Sunday – just hours after the disruption of the Stop Lynas gathering in Penang.
Surely we need a balanced, sustainable model of development that would also preserve our social and cultural heritage.
MPPP councillor Dr Lim Mah Hui made the following address at a full council meeting of the MPPP on 24 February 2012.
Despite the disruption by the mob at Speakers’ Square yesterday, there were more positive scenes at the Himpunan Hijau 2.0 solidarity gathering in Penang.
Kuantan was turned into a sea of green this morning as some 15000 people turned up for the Himpunan Hijau 2.0 gathering to protest at Lynas Corporation’s construction of a rare earth refinery.
