Visual artist Ismail Hashim, one of seven founding members of social reform group Aliran, passed away in a road accident in Penang yesterday evening.
Penang-based photographer extraordinaire Ismail Hashim passes away
LIVE – SMOG EMERGENCY: Muar hits choking 750
Smog conditions in Muar and Malacca worsened today as API readings surged well beyond the hazardous threshold.
SMOG HAZARD: Muar’s API reading soars
The smog conditions in Muar has reached critical levels this evening, even as the DOE website failed to record any readings after 11.00am.
Live – Padang Merbok rally
We will be keeping an eye on what is happening at Padang Merbok today.
Smog alarm: Singapore’s index surges past 400, Johor still hazardous
Update: At 2.00pm, Singapore’s 3-hour PSI reading dipped to 245, still at a very unhealthy level.
Not looking good: Singapore’s 3-hour PSI index has soared to an alarming 401 at noon, while Kota Tinggi (314) and Pasir Gudang (323) in Johor were also at hazardous levels an hour earlier.
Large trees from Brook Road site removed
Update: Just heard from MPPP that work has now been stopped.
A few majestic trees have been uprooted from a private site along Brook Road to make way for a luxury property development project.
ALERT: Incinerator to be built in Taman Beringin, Jinjang
This seems to have slipped past the radar: An incinerator capable of burning 1000 tonnes of rubbish daily is slated to be built in Taman Beringin in Kepong.
Smog: Now Pasir Gudang hits hazardous level
The API reading at Pasir Gudang in Johor has shot up to 333, hitting the hazardous range at 5.00pm. Muar remains under hazardous smog conditions as well, though inexplicably no new reading was provided at 5.00pm.
Muar smog reaches hazardous level
The smog hanging over Johor and Singapore has reached unhealthy levels, with Muar posting an alarming hazardous reading of 383 at 11.00am.
More on the Umno tower-top collapse (Videos)
Here’s more information about how the structure at the top of the Umno tower plunged and pierced vertically 30 metres deep into the road and the soft soil below.