Khim Pa reports on the first day of the national Green Walk:
Anti-AES protest outside Kong Cho Ha’s Lumut office
Hundreds protested this afternoon against the Automated Enforcement System outside the Lumut parliamentary office of MP Kong Cho Ha, who is also Transport Minister.
CNN interviews Ambiga
Bersih co-chair Ambiga Sreenevasan has appeared on CNN and put across the call for free and fair elections in Malaysia to a global audience.
‘Penang Paradigm’ must have extensive public consultations
First it was the Penang state government’s ‘Penang Blueprint’ for development in the state from 2011 to 2015. That was then set aside as the state government cooperated with the federal government to come up with the Greater Penang Transformation Plan.
Protestant Cemetery damage due to lack of supervision, disregard
The damage at the Protestant Cemetery was due to lack of supervision of landscaping workers tasked by the MPPP to prune and remove trees that were affecting the old tombstones.
Vigil for Ahmad Abd Jalil
A small group is holding a vigil at Dataran Merdeka to call for the release of Ahmad Abd Jalil, who has been remanded for three days until tomorrow on a fresh charge under the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Act.
Crowd is building up. #BebaskanAhmadNow twitter.com/FadiahNadwa/st…
— Fadiah Nadwa Fikri (@FadiahNadwa) November 7, 2012
When a politician resigns …
The last prominent Malaysian minister to announce his/her resignation was Shahrizat Abdul Jalil. That may have been unusual in the Malaysian context but hey, it happens in other countries as a matter of course.
Government debt soars – and that excludes contingent liabilities
Update: So with this in mind, the Malaysian government wants to send a second ankasawan on a junket to space (which would cost hundreds of millions of ringgit) – if funds permit. Well, do you think the state of our funds will ‘permit’ this?
Malaysian government debt has been steadily rising in recent years and is expected to touch RM502bn this year or 53.7 percent of GDP on the back of a rapid rise in issues of quasi-government bonds and securities. (The legal threshhold is 55 percent.) But this does not include sizeable contingent liabilities or off-balance sheet items.
Click to enlarge the following general government gross debt data from the International Monetary Fund:
