DBKL says that it only allows national, sporting and cultural events at Dataran Merdeka, but it didn’t mind a Hong Kong production unit unleashing ‘mayhem’ in the area surrounding (and above) the venue during the filming of ‘Police Story 3’.
Watch the “chaos” from 1:16:30
Aliran held a press conference this morning to announce that a Bersih 3.0 solidarity gathering will be held at Speakers’ Square this Saturday for those who can’t make it to KL.
Umno has been trying to save its body – but what has happened to its soul, wonders Maznah Mohamad as she reflects on the exit of Shahrizat Jalil.
So much for the PM’s ‘liberal’ amendments to backward laws. These bulldozed amendments to the Election Offences Act are alarming and cause for real concern.
Fearing a public backlash at local polls, no local government in Japan would dare to re-start a reactor in their locality now.
Despite calls from many concerned Penangites for more sustainable transport in the state, the Penang state government is adamant about building more highways and a tunnel, arguing that it does not have control over public transport in the state.
Update (3.30pm): Just received word that Hong Kai has been released.
Update (1.30pm): Just received word that Hong Kai could be released on bail at 3.00pm.
Suaram volunteer Tan Hong Kai has become the first person to be detained in connection with Bersih 3.0.
Britain has destroyed colonial crime records about the atrocities and torture committed by its troops in the nations they colonised.
Suaram director Dr Kua Kia Soong, Malaysian lawyer Fadiah Nadwa and lawyer Joseph Breham at the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris after meeting Judge Roger Le Loire, presiding over the Scorpene inquiry.
By mid-2012, the minimum limit for foreigners buying Penang property will be raised to RM1m (RM2m for landed property).