Town councils in Selangor and now the Penang state government are opposed to the move to legalise sports betting. Here’s your chance to have your say.
Political hot potato: Anti-sports betting protest in Bachok today Source: Harakah Daily
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The Aliran Singers are coming to the Klang Valley for a “People First, Democracy Now” dinner on Saturday, 26 June! Join them for a night filled with music, dance performances – and inspiration.
That’s not all. Talented guest artistes – the multi-ethnic youth band FreeLoaders INC, popular singer Shanon Shah, dancers Marion D’Cruz, Judimar Hernandez and Elaine Pedley – will entertain you as you tuck in to dinner.
Chou Z Lam, a former TV2 producer sacked after two parts of his 10-episode documentary series on the jinxed Bakun Dam were screened, speaks his mind.
Sarawak State Land Development Minister James Masing says Native Customary Rights land development has raised the socio-economic status of rural farmers – but the figures show a different picture.
Check out the figures from the Malaysian Mirror:
He said that as at March 31 this year, joint-venture agreements for 30 NCR land development projects covering a total gross area of 275,926 hectares were executed in various phases of development.
GDP growth as a measure of economic well-being tends to serve the interests of Big Business rather than those of ordinary people.
Watch all the episodes of this excellent film ‘The Corporation’, described by many as the best documentary they have seen.
In mainstream economic thinking, there are a few fundamental assumptions that are rarely questioned – and they form the basis of economic theory. These assumptions have been so widely disseminated and taught that very few even think of alternatives.
The Sibu churches who received grants from the federal government during the recent by-election plan have missed the chance to take a public stand against vote-buying.
They intend to keep the money, their pastors offering a host of reasons, some of them maybe legitimate: it’s public money; they had applied for the money earlier; they went through proper procedures; what can they do if the money is given during the campaign; there were no conditions attached; they are tax-paying citizens as well.
You got to hand it to Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu. He doesn’t know the facts – his own admission – but he still thinks the Bakun losses could have been averted.
Reports have said that cost over-runs of RM1.7 billion have been incurred by Sime Darby on a contract worth RM1.8 billion for the dam. Now not only is the Bakun Dam jinxed, a hex has been placed on Sime Darby too after it touched the project.
The mainstream media have been reporting that Malaysia and Singapore have ended their deadlock on key issues – but have all the prickly issues raised by Mahathir in the past been resolved?
Could we have the valuations for all the plots of land concerned so we know it’s a fair deal.
The Star reports that the key features of the latest round of talks were:
UPDATED: Pakatan polling agents were unable to witness the casting of ballots by over a thousand postal voters who were said to be located outside the Sibu police headquarters and two main army camps.
That’s the assertion made by an experienced Pas polling agent familiar with the process, which revealed glaring weaknesses and loop-holes in the Sibu by-election.
Back at Wisma Sanyan, the main coordinating centre for postal ballots, the agents for the Sibu by-election exercised unprecedented scrutiny over the counting and verification of the ballots.
As the agents spotted more and more discrepancies in the postal ballots, the pile of spoilt and rejected ballots grew higher and higher. (The agents had been thoroughly briefed on what to look out for.)