More evidence that workers, especially contract workers, are being shoddily treated. Workers in Tanjung Bunga who appear to be laying cables are living in deplorable conditions.
Low-wage contract workers, who are more easily exploited, are increasingly replacing regular local workers.
Thanks to Wong Yee Lin and Rosalind Chua for sending in the following report from Tanjung Bunga:
Some 10000 people converged at the Expo site in Seberang Jaya within Anwar’s Permatang Pauh constituency in renewed determination to propel PKR and Pakatan to greater heights.
While most people’s attention was focused on the Anwar verdict, UPSI has suspended student activist Adam Adli for three semesters, according to lawyer Fadiah Nadwa. Students demonstrate their support for Adam Adli - Photograph: Chua Yee Ling
In a stunning development, the High Court judge has acquitted Anwar after saying the court couldn’t be sure if the DNA samples had not been compromised.
The call for Hasan Ali’s sacking came from deep within Pas, say sources within the party.Mat Sabu speaking to thousands at Kampung Baru tonight: 'Whether or not Anwar goes to jail, we will take Putrajaya.' - Photograph: N Surendran
The Malacca Zoo has made it to the pages of the UK Daily Mail for the wrong reasons. The paper has highlighted the allegedly poor treatment of orangutans at the zoo.
For many state planners, the diversification to the services sector from manufacturing makes sound economic sense – but does it necessarily mean that workers will be much better off?
A couple of books that you might find interesting are going to be launched in Penang this Sunday – Syed Husin Ali’s memoirs and a reflection on the life and times of M K Rajkumar.
“Have you applied for the RM500 already?”
While the global economic crisis provides an air of foreboding over trade-reliant Malaysia, Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government is splurging on a wide range of cash handouts ahead of elections many analysts expect him to declare later this year.
The year 2011 will be remembered for the decision to do away with the ISA – a move which vindicates the half-century long struggle against this oppressive law.
31 December 2011 – While many of us are looking forward to a long New Year weekend holiday, for people like Samy and Bernadette, there is little to celebrate.
We can improve the real quality of human life by reducing the differences in incomes between us, says Richard Wilkinson, author of the ground-breaking ‘Spirit Level’ book.
The community of social science scholars and public intellectuals in Malaysia and Malaysianists are once again shocked and grieved, this time to hear of the untimely death of Khoo Khay Jin, a brilliant social scientist, a leading public intellectual and an out-of-the-box thinker.
