A heavy downpour tonight resulted in massive jams in parts of Penang Island, once again prompting the question: is the island’s supporting infrastructure adequate to cope with the relentless higher-density property development witnessed in recent years.
As you can see, the global oil price has actually dropped over the last few years. So why has the domestic oil price gone up by 20 sen per litre?
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!
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.
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).
A sustainable development group in India has found that not a few green-rated buildings, in India at least, are actually energy guzzlers.
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.
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.
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.
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.