Latest on the Bayan Mutiara site. I think the public needs more details about the development and the financing of the land and whether there will be any green space provided for a park.
The time for composting has come
The MPPP is organising a community awareness programme on composting on 16 July 2011.
Bersih 2.0: Towards clean and fair elections
Bersih 2.0 was another step in our journey to reclaim our land and restore integrity in our electoral process.
Bersih – a nation awakens
The day after. The tens of thousands of Malaysians who rallied yesterday in KL have written a new chapter in the nation’s relentless path towards real democracy.
Live – Bersih 2.0 gathering
Live updates from the Bersih 2.0 gathering in Kuala Lumpur to campaign for clean and fair elections.
Jeyakumar and an upside-down world
Of all the 200-odd arrests over the last couple of weeks, none is a more glaring instance of injustice than the cruel detention without trial of Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj.
Pakatan-controlled states?
Rais Yatim has said in the Star that Bersih organisers should plan to hold their rally in stadiums in states controlled by Pakatan Rakyat rather than in any of the three KL stadiums, including Merdeka Stadium.
Yen Yen, who’s scaring away tourists?
In a Free Malaysia Today report on Ng Yen Yen’s remark that Bersih 2.0 will cost the tourism industry RM1bn in lost gross revenue, there is the following:
“[She told] reporters that the Chinese Tourism Board had sent officials to gauge the stability of Malaysia to ensure it was safe to visit.”
Bersih 2.0: Checkmate?
This is something I wrote for Asia Times:
An air of nervousness has hung over Malaysia in sight of a potential confrontation between civil society organizers and pro-government opponents. A ”walk for democracy” planned for July 9 by a coalition of civil society groups known as Bersih 2.0 to campaign for clean and fair elections sparked a government crackdown reminiscent of the country’s old authoritarian ways.