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*
Special Area Plan for Botanic Garden
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.
Penang:Highway-tunnel plan a short-term solution
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.
Sodomy II updates
A crucial day in the Sodomy II trial, which will decide whether Anwar’s defence should be called.
No Internet censorship, says Najib
No Internet censorship. Is this really true?
Najib at the ‘Blogging Mindfully and Responsibly’ conference:
Malaysians have to thank Tun Dr Mahathir again for this. When he was prime minister and Malaysia was developing its Multimedia Super Corridor, Tun made the promise to the world that Malaysia would never censor the Internet.
Cops meet RPK at Bangkok hotel
RPK, who is in Bangkok today with Haris Ibrahim, has been asked to go to the Malaysian embassy in Bangkok to give a statement tonight.
Najib to address ‘responsible blogging’ conference
Prime Minister Najib is due to deliver a keynote address at the ‘First Asean Regional Bloggers Conference: Blogging Mindfully and Responsibly’ in KL on 24 April.
Who wants the Bakun ‘baby’?
Who is going to take over the 2400MW Bakun Dam baby? Initially supposed to have been completed in December 2008, it is now only expected to begin producing 300MW in three months.
Bukhary’s DRB-Hicom bags Pos Malaysia
Khazanah Nasional Berhad is divesting its stake in Pos Malaysia to DRB-Hicom Bhd, making the firm controlled by Syed Mokthar Al-Bukhary the largest shareholder in the postal corporation.
Jesus was tortured and executed
Tortured and executed. How different that is compared to the dry, passive “suffered and died” that we recite in creeds in church.