Just got a called from someone I know who was supposed to be on an Air Asia flight (AK605) from Kuching to Penang departing at 9.05pm.
Now the flight has been delayed to 10.45pm. And it’s not the first time this is happening to him.
By the time he reaches Penang it will be well past midnight – so the taxi fare to his home will now cost over RM100 instead of the usual RM65. And then there is the lost sleep.
Thailand’s most senior forensic pathologist, the renowned Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand, dropped a bombshell at the Teoh Beng Hock inquest today.
This is the latest via Twitter from Malaysian Insider:
Yet another “tea party” in Tanjung Bunga, Penang. This time residents gathered over Diwali near the Pearl Hill town houses to protest against property development projects on steep hill-slopes.
Photos by a Tg Bunga resident.
In this instance, they wanted to draw particular attention to the Dynamic HomePro town house project located right below the Pearl Hill town houses and in front of the homes of residents of Solok Tan Jit Seng.
The latest Edge weekly reports sources as saying that the Penang state government has given the green light to a low-profile businessman, Jeyakumar Varathan, to build and commission a RM70-million monorail test track on a 30-acre site in Batu Kawan.
The paper suggested that this could be a sign that the state is embarking on its own monorail plans and cited sources as saying that the groundbreaking for the project could be in December.
Jeyakumar’s consortium may first have to prove that its technology is viable before it can build a monorail network in Penang, the paper added.
Some questions arise:
These images from Kg Tanjung Tokong were taken during a Raya event on Sunday, 11 October at a time when the villagers are facing an uncertain future.
Photos by Kim MK
Are you depressed about the socio-political situation? This could be just the antidote for you: the Aliran Singers.
The Aliran Singers breaking out in song and parody – Photo courtesy of Aliran Monthly
The Aliran Singers are gearing up to perform at a celebratory dinner in Penang on Saturday, 24 October 2009. The singers are coming together again after a two-year break to sing about the current political situation, which should be a whole lot of fun. The special guest artiste for the evening is singer Pete Teo, the producer of the popular 15Malaysia video-clips released recently.
The Bagan Pinang by-election will be remembered for the comeback of the tainted Isa Samad, the Pakatan’s first defeat on the peninsula since GE2008, and the large number of army postal votes.
BN and Umno flags flutter at the Port Dickson Golf and Country Club, next door to the Army Engineering Institute, during the by-election campaign – Photos by Jong
The Pakatan needs to carry out a serious postmortem to find out why and how it was thrashed in Bagan Pinang.
Posters of the Kg Buah Pala demolition were found around Ladang Siliau in Bagan Pinang on nomination day – Photo by Tiger
In some ways, the BN victory was not unexpected. Perhaps the scale of the defeat surprised many. But a few keen political analysts noticed something amiss ahead of polling day and predicted that Isa would win comfortably as noted in my post here.
So far, many have pointed to some obvious reasons for the BN’s landslide win:
Pull factors:
After attending a conference on climate change and the food crisis in Penang, I was supposed to write an article and that left me wondering how I should write the introduction.
And then it struck me that even as the conference was taking place, the climate was wreaking havoc in the region. Among those worst affected are the farmers, who rely on disctinctive seasons for an optimal harvest. How are they coping?
PENANG, Malaysia, Oct 9 (IPS/IFEJ) – When organisers of an international conference on climate change and the food crisis first scheduled the event here for late September, little did they realise the event would be sandwiched by two typhoons buffeting the region. Ironically, the first typhoon, ‘Ketsana’, delayed the arrival of conference delegates from the Philippines.