PKR deputy president Azmin Ali is the latest opposition campaigner to be blocked in what is turning out to be the most farcical election campaign the state has ever seen.
Thousands of delegates flood Penang for controversial firm’s conference
Thousands of delegates, most of them apparently from India, have converged in Penang for a large but low-profile direct selling convention at the Spice conference centre in Penang.
Taiwan’s sleek new street-level light rail system
Check out Taiwan’s first street-level light rail or modern tram sytem.
Penang transport masterplan: This neat video sums it up
This is a quick look at some of civil society’s main concerns about the masterplan put forward by the project delivery partner SRS Consortium. Please share.
Why the Penang Botanic Garden is stuck in a rut
Of late, there has been talk that the Penang Botanic Garden should follow in the footsteps of its Singapore counterpart and apply for Unesco world heritage status.
NGOs concerned about Penang transport masterplan
I think the problem is that the more expensive the masterplan that the consortium comes up with, the more PDP (project delivery fees) it will be able to charge at 6 per cent of project costs and the more land reclamation that will be required by the state for sale to developers.
Anyway, this statement has just been released by Penang-based NGOs. Check out their concerns below:
Old Penang: Prangin Canal (Sia Boey) as you have never seen it
This is what Prangin Canal or Sia Boey in George Town, Penang, looked like in 1830, when the canal was much wider, leading out to the coast, which at that time faced Beach Street (before early land reclamation extended the coastline further away to Weld Quay).
Another blow for Malaysia Airlines as CEO Christoph Mueller quits
The official reason given by sole shareholder Khazanah is that turnaround specialist Christoph Mueller quit “due to a change in his personal circumstances” after serving one year of his three-year contract.
A conversation with a waiter in George Town
Sitting in a kopitiam in George Town, I struck a conversation with a friendly waiter while tucking into some toast with half-boiled egg spread on top with some coffee on the side.
A crowded hospital, the Panama Papers and squandered public funds
The other day, I visited a relative in a general hospital.
I was shocked to see how crammed the conditions are. In the ward section he was in, as well as in other nearby sections, a space originally meant for three beds on either side now had five beds on each of the two sides.