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.