A couple of activists phoned me just now to report of fires in some half a dozen spots on Penang Hill visible from the Botanic Garden area. Then I spotted smoke emerging from the hill at the Bukit Gambier area and another cloud of smoke visible from the Gelugor Post Office.
Bersih delegation visits Major Zaidi Ahmad to express support
A Bersih delegation visited Major Zaidi Ahmad to express their support for the air force officer’s predicament as he faces seven charges for going public about the easily washed off ink used in the last general election.
Duck! Red paint hurled at Malaysiakini office
The dirty tricks ‘kaki’ are at it again, this time the target is the country’s leading independent news portal, Malaysiakini.
Integrating gender-responsive budgeting and participatory budgeting
A major two-day Asian regional conference kicked off at a hotel in downtown George Town this morning to propel the integration of gender-responsive budgeting and participatory budgeting.
Marina Mahathir celebrates diversity; Khalid Samad tours St Anne’s Church
Writer-activist Marina Mahathir today talked up diversity as an asset for the country in the Putra Lecture organised by the Penang Free School Foundation at Wawasan Open University.
I need a mountain spring: A poem
A poem by blog visitor, Khoo Soo Hay, who yearns for more natural, green surroundings, preceded by an 1848 warning of climate change by James Logan.
1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB): Amid mounting debt concerns, change in auditors triggers alarm
Let’s take a quick look at the latest status of 1MDB, which appears laden with debt of RM8.4bn as at 31 March 2012 plus a reported additional RM22.7bn since then to finance the acquisition of power assets among other things.
Seri Tanjung Pinang Phase 2: A sad, lonely detailed EIA report
Another three days to go for the public display of the detailed EIA for Seri Tanjung Pinang Phase 2 to end. Himanshu Bhatt is gripped by a sense of deja vu in recalling the EIA process for Phase 1, seventeen years ago.
Major Zaidi Ahmad, a genuine patriot
Major Zaidi Ahmad is in trouble now after speaking out and lodging a police report about indelible ink that was easily washed off on polling day last May.