Penang-based activist Tan Seng Hai came up with this report:
I took a drive to Teluk Kumbar in the South-East District of Penang Island for seafood the other evening. I was last there about six months ago. What I saw of the scale of development and hill-cutting shocked me.
Spare a thought for Adam Adli and Mandeep Singh who were arrested this evening after a protest at Sogo. See this Bersih 2.0 statement on the Aliran website.
A Kuala Lumpur-based political analyst sent in his impressions of the event:
By all accounts, it was an eventful night and the political stars from Pakatan Rakyat graced the occasion to lend support to Lembah Pantai Member of Parliament Nurul Izzah Anwar.
Mahathir’s blog at chedet.cc has been suspended for unknown reasons and is now inaccessible. The following is an excerpt from a snapshot of his blog as it appeared on 13 Mar 2015 07:22:52 GMT.
1MDB
Mar13th
Written by Che Det
1. UMNO telah mengadakan majlis penerangan tertutup yang dihadiri oleh sebahagian dari Ketua-Ketua Bahagian pada 8 Mac. Keputusan majlis mengikut akhbar ialah menyokong penuh Presiden parti.
The crackdown on opposition politicians, including those who participated at the ‘Kita Lawan’ rally, continues…
Left Prison. 4 Policemen at home. Unfortunately otw to KB. There’s alr appt at IPD Dang Wangi 16th Mac. Don’t understand why harshness reqd.
— Nurul Izzah (@n_izzah) March 13, 2015
Meanwhile, Mahathir’s blog has gone done after his scathing criticism of the 1MDB scandal. His blog now bears the message: “The account has been suspended.”
Mahathir had said:
What is needed is a forensic investigation by the police over the allegations against people who are involved in the financial management of 1MDB.
Yesterday I published a post saying that the MPPP was calling for a request for proposals for three lots of land near the Gurney Drive roundabout – though I wasn’t sure then of the precise location of those lots.
Today I can confirm the precise location of the three lots. Two of them – Lots 1011 and 1373 – are covered by the white space above. It is possible that a large high density commercial or mixed development complex will spring up in that area perhaps to rival Gurney Paragon or other similar complexes.
The MPPP is calling for a ‘request for proposals’ for a plot of land at Gurney Drive.
From what I hear, this plot is somewhere near the Gurney Drive roundabout and is likely to attract bids from many large companies. I am not sure where the precise site is, but I believe it is somewhere here (see below), perhaps around five acres including nearby roads. MPPP should tell us exactly where this land is located.
A group of activists from the northern region heading for the Sogo protest rally against injustice in KL today have expressed disappointment with the Penang government’s instruction to its elected reps to stay put in Penang.
While the nation’s attention was focused on 1MDB’s sensational unaccountability, Petronas quietly slipped in a bombshell. It wrote off RM23.3bn in net “impairment losses” in its accounts for 2014.
The gross impairment losses written off in 2014 added up to RM25.3bn (see below) but there were also write backs credited to the accounts totalling RM2.0bn to arrive at a net figure of RM23.3bn.
