Four candidates will contest the Bukit Gelugor seat – Ramkarpal Singh (DAP), Huan Cheng Guan (PCM), and independents Mohamed Nabi Bux and Abu Backer Sidek Mohammad Zan. Another independent is disqualified.
Four-cornered contest for Bukit Gelugor by-election
Discriminatory charges, restrictions for foreign patients in government hospitals
I was horrified to read that the Health Ministry director-general has reportedly stated that foreigners who are outpatients will not be allowed to obtain medicines from government hosital pharmacies beyond five days of outpatient treatment.
MH370: Businessman insists he despatched mangosteens
A businessman from Muar has insisted he despatched mangosteens to China on board the ill-fated flight MH370 on 8 March 2014.
Shadow banking poses systemic risks
The wide distribution of shadow banking package by non-banking financial institutions has encouraged the build-up of household debt from 67 per cent of GDP in 2007 to 87 per cent in 2013.
Hudud bid is part of strategy to split the 51 per cent
Francis Loh has written a couple of articles for Aliran that explain why Umno is more receptive to hudud and is hoping to join forces with the conservatives in Pas.
When did KL first alert RMAF about MH370?
A preliminary report claims that Malaysian military radar did track an aircraft making a turnback on the morning of 8 March, but the radar operator classified it as “friendly”.
At 5.20am, unnamed captain felt that MH370 ‘never left Malaysian airspace’
At 5.20am on 8 March, an unnamed Captain, based on known information, felt that MH370 “never left Malaysian airspace”. But the search and rescue in the Straits of Malacca was only carried out more than five hours later, after 10.30am (though the South China Sea search had begun earlier that day).
The Captain’s name was edited out of the preliminary report that was released.
Incorrect cargo declaration led to serious damage to Malaysia Airlines plane in 2000
A chemical leak from cargo on board a Malaysia Airlines A330 plane en route from Beijing to Chennai in 2000 caused such extensive damage that the plane was deemed unfit for future use. The cargo reportedly had been inaccurately declared.
MH370 ‘lithium ion batteries’ shipper, consignee both logistics firms
NNR Global Logistics (M) Sdn Bhd, the shipper of the “lithium ion batteries” on MH370, is part of the Japanese Nishitetsu Group, which claims itself a “world leader in international logistics”.
MH370 lithium ion batteries: From 200kg to 2453kg?
We were earlier told that the plane was carrying 200kg of lithium ion batteries. And then we were told on 22 March 2014 that they were not lithium ion batteries. But now we see that the consolidated airway bill below from the MH370 cargo manifest states indeed there were lithium ion batteries and the weight stated was 2453kg.