The Penang Forum steering committee has just released this media statement, which speaks for itself:
Penang Forum is extremely disappointed by the recent personal attacks against civil society city councillor Dr Lim Mah Hui with the highly disparaging press statement from Chief Minister of Penang YAB Lim Guan Eng on 12 March 2016.
MBPP Councillor Dr Lim Mah Hui has denied accusations that he was lying about the number of illegally parked cars towed away by council enforcement teams. He has released statements in Malay, English and Chinese, which can be found below:
When I was a kid, my ambition was to become an All-England badminton champ. Sadly, I never made it past the older guys to become local street champ, and my budding badminton career soon faded. But coming face-to-face with my boyhood scrapbook hero, Tan Aik Huang, 1966 All-England champ and 1967 Thomas Cup winner, has more than made up for my unfulfilled dream.
You would have thought that law professor Gurdial Singh’s statement and Penang Appeals Board chairman Yeo Yang Poh’s remarks would have been enough to lay to rest the Ghost of Compensation Present.
MBPP councillor Dr Lim Mah Hui has just released this open letter to the chief minister of Penang, the MBPP mayor and the MBPP secretary:
Video footage has emerged that one of the two detained ABC journalists, Linton Besser, had asked probing questions at the press conference by PI Bala’s widow Santamil Selvi.
On a weekend this time. This tree along Jalan Lembah Permai is the latest to be chopped down.
This is what it looked like before:
Some time in 2010, a public uproar erupted when it was quietly revealed that the maximum density would be raised to 87 homes per acre from 15-30 per acre previously.
There has been a lot of scaremongering about the state government or local authorities having to pay compensation if its decisions are overturned in certain circumstances. Gurdial’s excellent piece below should go a long way in dispelling such talk.
We have the first Penang Bridge and the second Penang Bridge close to each other. So perhaps it is only fitting we have the ‘iconic’ first Botak Hill and the second Botak Hill next to each other.