Penang Forum has just released this statement in response to the proposal for a state-wide “LRT” system.
Penang Forum welcomes the federal government’s intervention in coming up with a more comprehensive public transport network for the entire state of Penang.
According to Transport Minister Anthony Loke, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has pointed out that mainland Penang should not be left out of transport infrastructure plans.
Are civil society’s concerns about Penang’s development trajectory being taken seriously? Are contentious projects an issue that will be on voters’ minds going into the Penang state election?
Stumbled across a couple of thought-provoking videos by a YouTube user named Poon, who explains why many in Penang shun the existing public transport system.
I wrote the article below together with Aliran’s Dr Mustafa K Anuar. Here’s where you add your comments on the upcoming state elections.
No sooner had the last of the six state assemblies been dissolved than Dr Mahathir Mohamad popped up to claim that the effort to promote a multi-ethnic country goes against the Federal Constitution!
The latest statement from the Penang-based Sahabat Alam Malaysia:
Sahabat Alam Malaysia was surprised to read a media report quoting Gamuda Bhd as saying that the “Penang South Reclamation” project will begin on 1 July. This is because the fishermen’s appeal has not yet been heard and decided.
The former assistant auditor general of Malaysia, Kanason Pothinker, passed away on 9 June, with hardly any public notice.
It was a strange feeling for me: I had got so used to hearing about his concerns that the final silence left a sense of unfinished business.
Lim Kean Chye has passed away in Penang at the age of 103.
I wrote this piece together with Chuah Chong Lai mainly to explain that there are other cheaper, quicker and more effective transport options for Penang.
The heat is on. This morning CAP held a press conference, as the pressure intensifies for the ecologically damaging project to be scrapped.
This conditional ‘approval’ is being given just a few months before the state election in Penang. It is shocking. Whoever is responsible for this doesn’t give a hoot about the damage it will cause to fisheries and food security. Plus the whole basis of the so-called PTMP (the extravagant Penang transport master plan) is gone.
It’s good that Anwar says he plans to look into this. But how could such an appointment be made in the first place? Aliran has released this statement:
Aliran is alarmed by the recent appointment of a senior executive from Gamuda Bhd as the chairman of the Energy Commission, the country’s national energy regulator.
Gamuda group deputy managing director Rashdan Yusof was appointed as the head of the commission with effect from 15 February.
Aliran has just released this statement:
Umno appears to be in a hurry to push for an early pardon for convict Najib Razak using as its basis the sole dissenting judgment against the guilty verdicts of 13 other judges at the High Court, the Court of Appeals and in two Federal Court panels.
The royals have spoken, Muslims have visited the Dalai Lama and even the Pas president has visited churches, so what is the problem, really?
Malaysia has lost one of its deep thinkers on global issues. T Rajamoorthy from Third World Network, based in Penang, has passed away after a period of illness.
Aliran released this media statement yesterday:
In Tommy Thomas’ autobiography My Story: Justice in the Wilderness, the former attorney general said he was “confident of recovering” from Goldman Sachs the huge losses the Malaysian government suffered from three 1MDB bond issues.
Let’s forget the kerfuffle over the Mentega Terbang movie for the time being and celebrate Michelle Yeoh’s win at the Oscars for best actress in the sci-fi movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, making her the first Malaysian and first Asian woman to win the award.
This is Aliran’s latest media statement in response to certain quarters claiming selective prosecution:
I was feeling a bit bored, so I decided to give ChatGPT, the online artificial intelligence (AI) tool, a test drive:
It’s a battle to keep alive the living heritage of George Town and to protect the traditional trades of the city in the face of gentrification.
Latest release from Aliran:
On 21 January Pas president Hadi Awang said it was not against election rules for others to distribute money as “charity” during election campaigns.