A group of farmers facing eviction, accompanied by Sungai Siput MP Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj and political activists, was arrested this afternoon when they tried to make an appointment to see the Perak MB after eight memos over the last two years failed to elicit a satisfactory response.
Kami akan duduk sini selagi MB beri temujanji. #PetaniPerak pic.twitter.com/buWwuXe20C
— Parti Sosialis MY (@partisosialis) August 5, 2015
Aside from all those jokes about ‘donations’ floating around in social media, 10 key questions come to mind about that RM2.6bn “donation”:
Another project that is above the threshold of 250 feet (72 metres) above sea level, the contour for which is indicated by the thin white line.
The ringgit has fallen to close to 3.87, a level last seen during the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis, due to uncertainty surrounding the 1MDB probe, the prospect of a US rate hike, and the plunge in global oil prices. Foreigners, meanwhile, have pulled billions of ringgit out of Bursa this year, exceeding the level for the whole of last year.
While most of us were focussed on the massive 1MDB scandal, we were nearly hit by the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Do-or-die TPP negotiations were almost concluded, but thankfully, they were stalled at the last minute by some sticky points.
But this TPP won’t go away so easily: it is not an ordinary ‘trade agreement’. That term ‘trade agreement’ is part of the corporate media propaganda ploy to try and ‘sell’ the TPP deal to a naive public.
Where o where is this country heading to under Najib’s leadership?
More than a hundred people, about half of them from the press, turned up at The Edge office this afternoon in a show of solidarity.
President of Foreign Correspondents Club of Malaysia with other media rallying for press freedom. #AtTheEdge #1MDB pic.twitter.com/9b7moD1oNC
— Sumisha Naidu (@SumishaCNA) July 31, 2015
Another hill in Penang, this time in the Minden Heights area in Penang Island, appears to be badly scarred, satellite imagery shows.
If you thought the divisions in Pakatan were bad enough, Umno itself is split. Don’t believe me? Take a look at this clip.
How bad can it get? Even staunch Umno supporter Ummi Hafilda has had enough! Now, isn’t this poetic? She helped in the effort to remove Anwar as DPM and now here she is in tears over the ouster of DPM Muhyiddin! Boo-hoo-hoo. You reap what you sow.
Dramatic news tonight! I just have one question for now: Will they finally question Najib or are they still busy questioning that 1MDB despatch rider? Read Francis Loh’s ‘Are we a ‘half-past-six’ democracy or what?’
Meanwhile, the fire at Bukit Aman broke out on the 10th floor of the old building (Tower 2), where the CID is located.