Twenty one people were arrested during a peaceful Workers’ Day gathering in KL. Not the best way for the government to observe this day in honour of ordinary workers.
Among those arrested are Sungai Siput MP Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj and several other top PSM leaders, including its secretary general S Arutchelvan.
Eleven days – that’s all it took for people power to pressure the Perak government and a ‘Hong Kong’ firm to terminate their MOU for a rare earth exploration project in Bukit Merah.
In a sign of an emerging ecological consciousness, a people’s green coalition has been formed to strengthen the green political agenda in Malaysia.
Some 600000 Malaysians may be living and working in Singapore, which has a population of just over 5 million.
The Penang government intends to build a 6.5km tunnel from Gurney Drive to Butterworth, in addition to earlier announced highway-tunnel stretches.
The Penang state government has awarded a RM3.2m tender for a Penang Transport Master Plan study to a planning and urban design firm based in Petaling Jaya.
Tunglang moves from describing authentic street food to talking about authentic forms of worship. From the way he describes it, it’s not such a great leap, as we might think.
Time has changed many things, many perceptions, many tastes and many lifestyles.
More commuters are using the Bridge Express Shuttle Transit (Best) service across the Penang Bridge during peak hours.
1 March – Less than 100 commuters when service was launched
31 March – 400 commuters daily
22 April – 800 commuters daily*
A Special Area Plan will be developed for the Penang Botanic Garden, hopefully putting an end to the fiascoes we have seen in the garden in recent years.
RM4bn for 8.8km of tunnels and highways? That’s what the Penang state government has in mind with two short stretches of tunnels and elevated highways.