Pulau Tikus rep Yap Soo Huey has raised the issue of the cost of the periodic dredging that would be necessary after the massive 891-acre land reclamation at the Seri Tanjung Pinang Phase 2 project and the Gurney Drive coastal strip.
Here we go again, this time rowdy pro-Umno protest at DAP HQ in KL
So many critical mportant issues facing the nation – mounting debt levels, rampant corruption, Barang Naik, GST, TPPA, MH370, income inequality and rural poverty, rising crime, climate change – and these KL Umno Youth guys zero in on something like this.
Rowdy protesters invade Penang State Assembly
Shameful scenes at the Penang State Assembly. And a couple of familiar faces (to Penangites, at least) among the protesters.
Dyana Sofya: Breaking barriers in move to New Politics
Dyana Sofya’s candidacy in the Teluk Intan by-election is signficant in more ways than one.
MH370: Four Corners examines what happened
The following are some of the major questions floating in my mind, and I am sure they are shared by many others:
– Why did the Malaysian side initially refuse to hand over the cargo manifest to the Australian investigators? Why did it take so long for the cargo manifest to be released? We still do not know the origins of the lithium-ion batteries and the mangosteens that were supposed to be in the cargo.
Sr Julianna Lim dies after brutal attack at Seremban church
Sr Julianna Lim, 69, passed away at about 3.30pm today, succumbing to injuries sustained during a violent attack in front of the Church of the Visitation in Seremban on 14 May which left her in a coma.
Nurul Izzah, Tian Chua, Rafizi lead in PKR VP race
Current standings in the PKR party elections as at 11 May 2014:
Nasa provides compelling evidence of climate change
Is it wet or dry season now? The weather in Penang has become highly unpredictable and erratic with the lines between the seasons blurred beyond recognition.
Now, Kampung Siam residents face eviction from land bequeathed by Queen Victoria
Another colonial-era village in Penang is set to be flattened – Kampung Siam of Pulau Tikus (behind the Pulau Tikus Police Station).
Singapore unearths its pre-colonial history that began centuries earlier
The New York Times reports:
While earlier generations learned a narrative that essentially started in 1819 with the British colonial administrator, Sir Stamford Raffles, stumbling upon a sleepy Malay fishing village, 13-year-olds now learn of a golden age that started 500 years earlier.