Residents of Bayan Bay are unhappy about plans for massive development and land reclamation near their area, which is already close to the massive RM10bn Penang World City project. Small office/home office (Soho) projects are creating unease in various ways and that has prompted a freeze on all new projects for now – but that doesn’t mean the project won’t proceed in the future. To placate the residents, they have been told that the height of the proposed buidlings will be reduced.
Meanwhile, Soho buyers elsewhere are disgruntled at having to pay higher commercial rates for assessment even as developers reap handsome profits e.g. by building at a higher (commercial) density.
This Soho mess was easily foreseen by many quarters.
The following press statement was issued by residents in the Bayan Bay area.
The missing plane has made people around the world take a closer look at Malaysia – and from various accounts, what they have seen, from the lack of transparency to the way opposition leaders are treated, has not impressed them.
Here you go again.. direct tender, negotiated tender, restricted tender, tender terhad or whatever-you-may-call-it, the effect is the same – mind-boggling amounts of money expended with little accountability.
And then they need to introduce GST for the rakyat to cough up while patients have to pay for nuts and bolts and screws needed for surgical procedures.
While all the focus is on Penang’s high domestic water consumption, the Penang trade consumption is often ignored – but businesses enjoying cheap water guzzle 40 per cent of total Penang water consumption.
Graph: PBA
While the state government rightly calls on Penang’s domestic consumers to reduce their high per capita water consumption, it should also ask Penang trade consumers to curtail their water usage.
Just received the following message via email from a PKR politician:
Bagi jawatan-jawatan Timbalan Presiden dan Naib-naib Presiden, kami (Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Nurul Izzah Anwar dan Rafizi Ramli) telah sepakat untuk menawarkan satu gagasan bersama yang menekankan kepada kepimpinan bersama (collective leadership) dan barisan pimpinan masa depan untuk melonjakkan keyakinan rakyat kepada KEADILAN.
What is Penang Forum’s stand on the Seri Tanjung Pinang Phase 2 project? Penang Forum rejects the Detailed Environmental Impact Assessment of the project because of its flawed assumptions, methodologies, calculations, and inconsistencies. We find that the harm outweighs the benefits.
Thus this Detailed EIA is NOT acceptable and should NOT be approved.
Bernard Khoo @ Zorro UnmaskedSaturday, 5 April and Sunday, 6 April
Parlour 1 at St Ignatius Church, No. 2, Jalan SS25/23 Taman Plaza, 47301 PJ
1.00pm to 10.00pm – Wake
Sunday, 7 April
St Ignatius Church, PJ
11.00am – Funeral mass
Irene Fernandez
If you were unable to pay your last respects to Irene Fernandez in Seremban and Subang Jaya/Shah Alam, those of you living in the northern region have another chance.
People of all faiths are welcome.
Wednesday, 9 April
Church of Christ the King, Jalan Kolam Air, Sungai Petani
7.00pm – Mass and final rites
7.45pm – Fellowship at Pastoral Centre (behind the church).
Thursday, 10 April
Catholic Cemetery, Jalan Sungai Layar, Sungai Petani
10.00am – Irene’s ashes will be laid to rest.
Irene’s funeral mass at the Church of Divine Mercy in Shah Alam yesterday was celebrated by Penang Archbishop Sebastian Francis, Archbishop Emeritus Soter Fernandez and Archbishop Emeritus Murphy Pakiam along with a dozen priests.
Update: So what is this object then? The website Maldivesfinest.com appears to be trying to get answers from the Maldives National Defence Force, which reportedly took the object away for further investigation. Check out the updates here.
Original post (27 March 2014):
Haveeru Online, the leading news portal in the Maldives, reported two days ago that a mysterious object washed up in Baarah in Haa Alif Atoll.
Another article from fz.com on this project:
by Sangeetha Amarthalingam
GEORGE TOWN (March 21): The 760-acre second phase of Seri Tanjung Pinang (STP2), an ambitious development on land off the east coast of Penang Island, is expected to stretch five kilometres along the coast between Tanjung Tokong and Gurney Drive.
An article that appeared on fz.com
by Sangeetha Amarthalingam
GEORGE TOWN (March 19): Hidden in the colossal mountain of words in the Detailed Environmental Impact Assessment (DEIA) of the second phase of the Seri Tanjung Pinang (STP2) project are highly disturbing indications of what Penang island is to become.
