We all know we need better public transport for Penang – but not at any price, not if it means more disastrous land swap deals involving even bigger tracts of land reclamation for more multi-million ringgit sea-view bungalows and condos.
Who is making the developers and bankers rich?
Read this carefully and you will realise who is helping to finance the fat profits of the developers and the banks.
Lessons from the world’s humblest president
Some quotes from the president of Uruguay, Jose Mujica Cordano, regarded as the humblest president in the world.
Julian Leow succeeds Murphy Pakiam as Archbishop of KL
Fr Julian Leow has been appointed the fourth Archbishop of the Kuala Lumpur diocese, succeeding Archbishop Emeritus Murphy Pakiam, who retired last year upon reaching the age of 75, as required under canon law.
Now Penang turns to Perak for water
Now, Penang is seeking intervention from Putrajaya to facilitate the acquisition of water from Perak. The problem is that the Penang government wants cheap raw water, but Perak, whose water tariff is double that of Penang’s, is only interested in selling treated water.
All attention on airports, tunnel – but who will slosh some paint on these low-cost flats?
All attention seems to be on the airport expansion plan in Penang, a proposed airport in Kulim and the Penang tunnel, running into hundreds of millions, even billions, of ringgit. But who will spend one or two million ringgit to give these low-cost flats in mainland Penang a coat of paint?
More worried fisher folk meet to discuss impact of land reclamation
More groups representing fisher folk have come together to express concern about land reclamation in Penang.
Dumping of cow head and crazy jig a sign of political lunacy
The rabid gutter politics that we have witnessed in recent years must have inspired the culprit who dumped a bloodied and skinned head of a cow outside DAP Penang state assembly member R N Rayer’s residence.
Penang land-for-tunnel swap: Who is this mystery man?
Work on the tunnel has not even begun but already the wheeling and dealing behind the scenes is taking place in earnest.
On day of ‘Allah’ decision, Muslims, Christians hold fellowship gathering in Alor Setar
Christians and Muslims met up again in equal numbers, this time at a hotel in Alor Setar, to cement ties of friendship and solidarity, notwithstanding the controversial verdict of the Federal Court which denied the Catholic Church an avenue to appeal on the use of the word Allah in the Herald.