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A case to watch in Penang

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Update (3.05pm): The case has now been postponed. Case management has been fixed for 4 December 2015.

Terence Fernandez, the investigations editor of The Edge, rose to national prominence as the former sidekick of Citizen Nades in theSun during the PKFZ expose. He was the editor of the book PKFZ: Some Untold Stories, written by Nades.

Terence is also the winner of a Malaysian Press Intitute journalism award and three awards for Editorial Excellence from the Society of Publishers in Asia (Sopa), founded in 1982 to promote excellence in journalism and best practices in Asia Pacific.

Now, Terence is in the dock in Penang in a defamation suit arising from a report published in fz.com.

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Hefty pay rise for Penang ExCo members, Aduns: Report

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This may have skipped your attention.

Big pay rise for Penang reps, exco members

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Who were the seven BN MPs who did not vote for the Budget?

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Three of the 14 Pas MPs broke ranks. But who were the seven missing BN votes?

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Transparency needed for controversial RM270m Penang Hill cable car project

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Transparency is needed not only for the land reclamation work in southern Penang Island, but also for the plan for the controversial cable car project on Penang Hill.

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Serially late: 1MDB’s tale of missed deadlines

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Serially late: 1MDB’s tale of missed deadlines

If you are late for school but if you have a good reason, you may be excused. But if you are habitually late, say, more than three times in a short space time, then your excuses may wear a little thin. You could end up in detention class or whatever they call it these days. In earlier days, it could even have meant the rotan!

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Something big is happening in southern Penang Island

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Something big is happening in southern Penang Island

“If there’s something strange
In your neighbourhood
Who you gonna call?”*

The murmurs are growing louder in southern Penang Island – and still we haven’t been told exactly what to expect there.

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Suu Kyi’s landslide win … and now even Burma may surpass us in the democracy stakes

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I wrote a blog post on 16 September 2011 about a crystal-ball gazing piece I had written in 2005 foreseeing the scene in 2025.

Some bits of that forecast have come true, especially the bit about the ISA being repealed (though not in the way I expected) – and now, Suu Kyi being poised to lead Burma after the nation’s first free elections in years.

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RM300m ‘Penang Sky Cab’ project?

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RM300m ‘Penang Sky Cab’ project?

Some quick observations on the Penang budget speech.

The Penang state government has requested Penang Sentral Sdn Bhd to undertake a feasibility study for a RM300m Penang Sky Cab project, presumably a cross-channel cable car system (point no.58 in the Penang budget speech below). The state government acknowledges this is not meant as an alternative to public transport modes like LRT and trams, but more as a tourist attraction.

But cable cars are not an unusual gimmick; Malaysia already has them in Genting and Langkawi (see video above); and they would not be unusual for tourists from developed nations. Besides, the fares are unlikely to be cheap. So, hopefully no public funds will be used for this.

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New Canadian PM unveils ethnically diverse cabinet with equal men and women

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New Canadian PM unveils ethnically diverse cabinet with equal men and women

An example for the rest of the world.

They really have come a long way since 25 years ago when there was a huge controversy over whether Sikhs could be allowed to wear the turban in the Royal Canadian Mounties.

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Taman Tun Dr Awang flats: Finally … what a difference a coat of paint makes!

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Taman Tun Dr Awang flats: Finally … what a difference a coat of paint makes!

Great news! What a world of difference.

This was what the Taman Tun Dr Awang flats in Butterworth looked like before (see below) when I tweeted about it a month ago, after yet another foreign visitor, this time from Singapore, asked why the the powers that be were not doing anything about it.

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