Sometimes it is the little tell-tale signs that say a lot. Like when the pau man in Penang innocently asked me just a few days before GE2008, “Why-ah everyone voting for opposition this time?”
Komtar phase 5 may be scrapped and instead the area my be conserved for its cultural and heritage character.
Well done, PDC, for thinking twice about this! Also be careful how the canal is rehabilitated bearing in mind the area is swampy ground.
The BN vows to make Sarawak the richest state. But you know something? Sarawak is already the richest state in the country. But – and there is a big but – the problem lies in income distribution.
This commentary from the Aliran website:
The BN pledges to make Sarawak the richest state in Malaysia.
This site crashed at around midnight due to a heavy load on the servers. Apologies for the disruption which lasted around six to nine hours.
Traffic over the last week has been more than double, at times triple, the usual volume.
Another night, another large crowd in Sibu. Photo credit: Sarawak4change via plixi
This was the scene at 11.15pm today. Tomorrow’s a working day but the folks over there are staying put to listen to political speeches.
The battle for Marudi is in full flow. This is the scene at a PKR ceramah at 8.00pm.Marudi tonight - Photo by Tian Chua via plixi
“Marudi is heating up! Never before such an enthusiastic gathering in this small sleepy township,” reports Tian Chua.
As the Sarawak election campaign gathers momentum, two websites that have played a pivotal role in exposing abuse of power in the state have gone down.
One of the arguments used to justify the move to deny Chin Huat entry to Sarawak is that the state has a degree of autonomy to make such decisions – but autonomy for whom?
This is a comment left by a blog reader in response to another commenter who had said the state has autonomy to make such decisions:
The reason for change is very, very simple. Sarawak’s current autonomy is the autonomy of one man and his band of cronies, not the autonomy of its people.
The large turnouts at ceramahs in Sarawak continue. This was the scene outside Pakatan’s operations room in Senadin in Miri at 11.00pm today.
Observers said such a large turnout had not been seen in recent years. This is actually Supp territory: in 2006, Supp’s Lee Kim Sin trounced PKR’s Chai Chook Hui by 4799 votes. This time, Lee is up against PKR’s Michael Teo Yu Keng. Supp also holds the other two state seats in the Miri parliamentary constituency – Piasau (held by George Chan) and Pujut.
Thousands listen to Anwar in Miri - Photo credit: Tian Chua via twitter
Political scientist and activist Wong Chin Huat has been blocked from entering Sarawak – but, while still at Kuching Airport, he is challenging the move from a legal standpoint.
Chin Huat arrived in Kuching at around 9.00pm on an Asia Asia flight from Kuala Lumpur – and was promptly denied entry.
Moaz Yusuf Ahmad explains why Perbadanan Putrajaya should stop calling for a monorail system in the city.
PPj needs to stop calling for the Putrajaya monorail project to be revived
It has come again – the call from Perbadanan Putrajaya to revive the Putrajaya Monorail has become an annual event for those who follow public transport in Malaysia.
In a twist to the usual practice of political parties hosting dinners for voters, residents of Long Tengoa today said they want Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian to return on 9 April so that they can throw a party for him. View Larger Map
More on deforestation in Sarawak. View Larger Map
Taken from a comment on the Aliran website:
While Sean’s warning about Google Earth’s images is useful, what it means in practice is that the extent of deforestation it shows is an under-estimate of the actual situation on the ground. For Sarawak, it is mostly about five years out of date.
This handout on the Batu Kawan deal was passed to me by a journalist. I think it is of public interest, so I am reproducing it here. From horse-racing to power-boat racing: Former Equine chairman Patrick Lim moved on to become Executive Chairman of the World Match Racing Tour. During his time in Equine, the firm owned 25% of Abad Naluri, the failed PGCC project developer - Photo credit: valenciasailing.blogspot.comIn 'happier' days: (from right) Patrick Lim, Koh Tsu Koon and Abdullah Badawi at the launch of the PGCC project, later aborted
PDC has just renegotiated the 750-acre Batu Kawan land deal with Abad Naluri under the original principal agreement, which was signed in 2004, which should be seen together with the Penang Global City Centre project.
It was only this morning that I read a report that the MACC would be installing close circuit security cameras for use during interrogation.
And now, another death at the MACC premises. A 56-year-old Customs assistant director, Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed, who was being probed has fallen to his death from the third floor of the MACC office.
Twitter pic by alaramkalai