As we celebrate Easter, here is a piece I wrote for the Herald on 4 March. Wishing all of you a joyful Easter filled with hope.
More Santa Claus politics
It is just sickening the obvious vote-buying that is taking place almost every other day.
Penang tunnel-highways: CAP vs CM (Round 2)
The most recent exchange between CAP president S M Idris and Penang CM Lim Guan Eng.
Pope washes feet of prisoners, including Muslim woman (Video)
In a Holy Thursday service that highlights Jesus’ call to serve with humility, Pope Francis broke with Vatican tradition by washing the feet of juvenile offenders (including women, atheists and people of other faiths).
GE13: The real reasons for going into ‘extra time’
Martin Jalleh summarises Ambiga’s debunking of The Star’s four reasons for the delay in the general election while blog reader Stephen suggests the real reasons.
Economic costs of excessive dependence on cars (Video)
Often, in our urban planning, we fail to take into account the full economic and environmental costs of policies/projects that promote an excessive dependence on private motor vehicles.
Prioritising people over cars: The Curitiba story (Video)
Watch what happens when a visionary mayor, Jaime Lerner (now retired), sets about transforming the city of Curitiba, Brazil, into a model of sustainable development and urban planning.
Election of Pope Francis: A dream realised … 800 years later?
Pope Francis is set to lead the transformation of the church – a return perhaps to the trajectory that the Second Vatican Council had envisioned. This is an article I wrote for the latest edition of the Herald.
Phweeeet! We are now into GE extra time
The ‘referee’s whistle’ for full-time at the Negeri Sembilan state assembly has sounded, and we are now into ‘extra time’, which means the general election must be held before the end of May, if it is to be held simultaneously with the state elections. Tommy Thomas elaborates.