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 groups representing fisher folk have come together to express concern about land reclamation in Penang.
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.
Work on the tunnel has not even begun but already the wheeling and dealing behind the scenes is taking place in earnest.
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.
Among those arrested were Himpunan Hijau chairman Wong Tack, ‘Superman’ Hew Kuan Yau and Australian activist Natalie Lowrey representing Friends of the Earth. They were among a crowd of about a 1000 who had gathered near the Lynas rare earth refinery in Gebeng in an effort to shut down the controversial plant, which they say will leave behind a toxic legacy.
Residents of Kampung Bagan Ajam in Butterworth and Kampung Chubadak in KL are the latest folk to face eviction at the hands of developers.
The Penang Chief Minister has written to the Prime Minister urging the federal government to support or implement public transport initiatives in view of the growing congestion in the state.
Attended a discussion on low-income housing in Malaysia and these were some of the points that surfaced.
This article raises some highly relevant questions which have not been discussed enough. Among the issues: What was in that cargo and why haven’t they revealed the real sources of the cargo?