Salor Adun Husam Musa has called on the Kelantan government to stop the massive clearing of forests in Kelantan. It seems like few lessons have been learned from the serious flooding in December last year (while Najib was playing what appeared to be a crucial round of golf with Obama).
Pas-Perkasa pact muddies the picture
I am trying to make sense of this. Pas has been widely seen as drawing closer to Najib-Umno these days, and Ibrahim Ali was seen around Mahathir until recently.
Meet the new (pseudo) human rights activists in town
Looks as if we have a new set of human rights activists in town. Mahathir and his former cabinet ministers are speaking out against the Sosma arrests of Khairuddin and Matthias Chang.
How Obama hit a TPP birdie despite Malaysia’s trafficking bogey
Now this has largely slipped below the media radar. The US Friends of the Earth has filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding the quick release of all communications by the US State Department relating to the controversial upgrade to Tier 2 in Malaysia’s ranking in the recently released 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report.
Zeti fights back
Ooh La La. Things are moving fast after the Rulers’ statement on 1MDB.
Fresh from the attorney general clearing 1MDB for the second time after Bank Negara had submitted its investigation paper on 1MDB, the central bank has decided to act.
Bank Negara has revoked three permissions granted to 1MDB under the ECA for investments abroad totalling USS1.83bn. It has also issued a direction under the Financial Services Act 2013 to 1MDB to repatriate the amount.
The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize goes to …
The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet comprising the General Union of Tunisian Workers, the employers’ union (UTICA), the Tunisian Bar Association, and the Human Rights League (LTDH), the first independent human rights association in the Arab world.
Poorer economic conditions likely to hit government budget
Petronas’ profit before tax has slumped by about 43 per cent so far in the current financial year and this is bound to have an effect on government revenue and Petronas’ own reinvestment plans.
In fact, profit before tax was almost halved in the second quarter compared to the same period last year while cash flow from operating activities dropped by a third.
TPP: Will Najib ignore Stiglitz’s appeal?
This is Najib speaking at the UN general assembly, where he delivered an impassioned speech about the need to oppose extremism. (Check out 2:45 in the video to see the other Malaysians at the UN.) All well and good, but will he oppose extremism, whether religious or racial, which threatens to tear us apart in Malaysia? We are watching, and so far not many are convinced by his resolve in reining in the bigots out to create trouble here.
Imagine a city with fewer cars: Park(ing) Day in George Town
Over 40 teams of Penangites were involved in creating mini pop-up public parks on 50 parking lots scattered around the heritage zone of George Town on 19 September.