A group of performers read poetry outside Sogo yesterday evening.
Who is Benz Ali?
Fahmi Zainol and team blocked from speaking inside USM – heckled outside
I spotted a group outside USM this afternoon and didn’t realise what was going on until much later. Turns out that the gathering was part of the Jelajah roadshow by a group of university students to “free the universities” in the country.
The group was reportedly barred from speaking at USM by campus head of security Assoc Prof P Sundramoorthy, who asked them to disperse.
Fahmi Zainol GAGAL untuk kali KETIGA Beliau diarahkan keluar dari kawasan USM oleh Petugas USM. pic.twitter.com/zhkxIwjoPH
— Aku Anjoi (@AkuAnjoi) November 15, 2014
The untold Seberang Perai story
Seberang Perai or Province Wellesley has a rich history which has not often been shared with a wider audience.
Penangite links up with Lithuanian to publish children’s book with a difference
It’s not often that you come across a vividly illustrated children’s book relating the adventures of a young person in the streets of a city trying to unravel a mystery after dark. And this city bears some resemblance to George Town.
A new children’s book, Twee and the Mysterious Howl, by writer Rosalind Chua and illustrator Artur Sirin was launched in Penang on 8 November with a launch in Europe expected next year.
Jamming in support of migrant and refugee rights
Come on everyone, let’s show our support – and have some fun in the process – for the rights of migrants and refugees, who often suffer much exploitation and abuse.
1MDB would have shown much larger loss if not for RM897m property revaluation
1MDB would have showed a much larger loss than its RM669m loss before tax if it hadn’t included in its books a surplus on revaluation of investment properties amounting to RM897m.
EXPOSED: Tony Blair’s lucrative cash-for-contacts deal with 1MDB-funded PetroSaudi
The Sunday Times in the UK has a massive expose on that war criminal Tony Blair:
TONY BLAIR secured a secret contract with an oil company founded by a senior member of the Saudi royal family for a fee of £41,000 a month and a 2% commission on any of the multimillion-pound deals he helped broker, a leaked document reveals.
The contract agreed in November 2010 between Tony Blair Associates (TBA) and the oil firm PetroSaudi involved the former premier arranging introductions to his contacts in China, including senior political figures. The firm was told it could not divulge Blair’s role to anyone without permission.
Eight student reps held in Sabah now FREED
0131 (Monday): “Menurut Pengerusi Pro-M UMSKK, saudara Muhammad Asyraf Che Ani, kesemua yang ditahan telah dibebaskan. Syabas!” So says a tweet by @MsiswaGANYANG.
The eight, who were being held at the Karamusing Police Station, are Fahmi Zainol, Ainullutfi, Asyraf Che Ani, Fathihie, Jamhuri, Fadhil, Nazrin, and Tan Choonan. They were without a lawyer.
EXPOSED: While ordinary people have to pay GST or VAT, find out how some MNCs are slashing their tax bills
While many ordinary people, even the poor, are now burdened with taxes such as GST or VAT, some multinational corporations are channelling billions of dollars through Luxembourg to drastically slash their global tax bills in some cases to an effective tax rate of less than 1 per cent.