The Sessions Court has granted Azmi Sharom’s application to refer the issue of whether the Sedition Act 1948 is constitutional to the High Court. Round One to Azmi Sharom!
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s rousing poem calling for action to curb climate change
Listen to Marshallese poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, a journalist, teacher and co-founder of an environmental NGO, read out this poem on behalf of civil society at the UN Climate Summit in New York City last week.
Trams without overhead wires begin trials in Nanjing
Nanjing has built a 7.8km tram line from a metro station to its Olympic Stadium East, and trials began on 2 August. The line uses lithium-ore batteries that allow for 90 per cent of the route to be free of overhead electricity wires (i.e. catenary free).
Are ‘green-rated buildings’ really green?
A sustainable development group in India has found that not a few green-rated buildings, in India at least, are actually energy guzzlers.
Quick poll: Should Pas quit Pakatan?
Share with us your views in the poll and read what a KL-based political analyst has to say further below.
The KL-based political analyst tells us what he thinks:
Pas betrayed the PKR and the DAP by rejecting the nomination of Wan Azizah as MB of Selangor.
Pas’ CWC gave the support but Hadi overruled the CWC even after originally agreeing to it. If Pas has a good look at the seats it won, especially in Selangor, it was mainly due to the landslide support of the non-Malays in the PKR and the DAP.
In GE 13, Pas won only 21 seats, compared with the DAP’s 38 and the PKR’s 30. In around eight to nine seats that Pas won such as Shah Alam, Kota Raja and Sepang (Selangor), Parit Buntar, Bukit Gantang and Temerloh, it was due to the strong support of its coalition partners. So, it is Pas who should listen to its partners and not the other way round.
Messing with Melaka: the RM40bn Gateway project
The RM40bn Melaka Gateway project is set to turn Melaka from a historical jewel into nothing more than a shiny plaything for the international idle rich, warns Weezy La Boite.
Sobering lesson for Pas’ pro-Hadi faction at Pengkalan Kubor by-election
Unofficial result: BN won the Pengkalan Kubor state by-election seat with a majority of 2635, up from the 1736 votes it won in GE13. Voter turnout was 73 per cent.
Thus the Pas candidate performed worse than the PKR candidate in GE13.
1MDB’s pre-GE13 purchase of Air Itam land raises host of questions
Questions have been raised following The Edge’s expose of 1MDB’s purchase of several plots of freehold land totalling 234 acres for RM1.4bn around the Air Itam area a week before GE13 last year.
40-storey tower to sprout in Chee Seng Garden?
Mario Balotelli once lifted his jersey on the football pitch to reveal the words “Why always me?” on his inner vest after a series of controversial incidents propelled him into unflattering public scrutiny. Residents of Chee Seng Garden may now be forgiven for wondering “Why always us?” after hearing talk of a 40-storey tower emerging in the midst of their housing area, which had been in the spotlight after earlier controversies over nearby hill-slope development.
Staggering RM290bn projected profit for Forest City land reclamation in Johor
It is the biggest land reclamation project in the country with a density that is similar to Mont’ Kiara in KL. When completed the reclaimed land will cover an area equivalent to five Pulau Jerejaks. It will have a massive impact on the livelihood of fisherfolk as the area has the largest bed of sea grass in the country.