A platform believed to be used for carrying out tests (for land reclamation?) has collapsed in the sea facing Gurney Paragon along Gurney Drive in Penang.
Residents in the area around Persiaran Kelicap and Solok Kelicap in Sungai Ara are anxiously awaiting an Appeals Board decision on a developer’s plan to build 14 fairly highrise blocks on hill-slopes, more than 250 feet above sea level.
Party whips should not not be imposed and MPs should be allowed to vote on the TPP according to their conscience next week. But I would like to know the stand of each party and each MP.
With just US$3.88m (RM17m) funding under a Japanese investment agreement, Burma has brought back the trams to Yangon after 100 years.
Is this for property development or sand-mining? Notice how close this is to a residential area. Is this what we want for Penang?
1MDB should have been rolling in the black with some RM12bn in land revaluation gains; instead it finds itself pouring money into a black hole of borrowings incurred to finance goodness-knows-what.
In all my years of observing politics, whether local or foreign, I have never before come across an administration that so frequently warns of the possibility of having to pay “(hundreds of) millions in compensation” to developers or landlords. To me, this mantra seems to be a favourite fall-back position (to browbeat critics into silence?).
Statement for the 11 January 2016 meeting with the chief minister of Penang issued by the steering committee of Penang Forum:
The Penang Forum steering committtee released the following ‘executive summary’ to the media during its meeting with the chief minister of Penang: