A look at the terrain would suggest that land clearing upstream in the Sungai Bertam catchment area may have aggravated erosion and surface run-off to the reservoir, which has been plagued by siltation problems (as the colour of the water in the image below would also suggest).
Parit Buntar MP Mujahid Yusof Rawa personally presented his new book ‘Berdialog dengan gereja’ to Bishop Sebastian Francis at the latter’s office in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Penang yesterday.
Send in your reactions to Najib’s Budget 2014. The (regressive?) Goods and Services Tax at 6 per cent will come into force on 1 April 2015, replacing the Sales and Services Tax. That’s a higher rate compared to the 3-4 per cent predicted earlier. Making up for all the massive pre-election spending and cash handouts?
With the fallout from the Allah controversy still brewing, Pas representatives have been extending a hand of friendship to representatives of the Christian churches.
Live from the United Nations in Geneva, where Malaysia’s human rights record comes under scrutiny.
It was just an academic exercise, says a senior university official, and it was never banned. So how does the university explain this notice found pasted in the Berita Kampus newsroom? Is the notice part of the review process/academic exercise?
Economist Lim Mah Hui says he never made comments attributed to him, so I am reproducing his statement below to help him get a fair hearing. What is irrefutable though is that the number of unemployed diploma holders and graduates has soared over the years.
Did you catch the BFM interview with Islamic religious scholar Reza Aslan?
Start the interview at 19:30 to hear what he has to say about the Allah controversy.
Also read Tommy Thomas’ The Allah decision is wrong in constitutional law (Aliran).
And this is a statement by Archbishop Murphy Pakiam, the President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia:
The small island republic plans to create 700km of cycling paths by 2030. Are we going to be left behind again as we continue our love affair with the car while pouring billions of ringgit into road and related infrastructure?
While quite a few developed nations have their highest income tax rate at around 40-50 per cent, Malaysia has been steadily reducing its income tax and corporate tax rates. No wonder we have been posting persistent fiscal deficits.
