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Tanjung Bungah landslide: Penang commission of inquiry must have broad scope

The Tanjung Bungah Residents Association released the statement below. Incidentally, the chairperson Meenakshi was one of those detained under the ISA led under the Operation Lalang crackdown exactly 30 years ago today.

Tanjung Bungah landslide: Five REAL facts you should know (updated)

Some purported “facts” are being circulated about the Tanjung Bungah project.

Has Tanjung Bungah development been in line with Penang Structure Plan?

The over-riding plan governing development in Penang is the Penang Structure Plan. Gazetted in 2007, it should be legally enforceable.

Tanjung Bungah landslide: Penang government, council must explain why DoE objection ignored

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP), Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) and the Tanjung Bungah Residents Association (TBRA) are shocked to learn that the Penang state government and the Penang Island City Council have chosen to ignore the objection of the Department of Environment (DoE) for siting the development of the residential project in Lembah Permai, Tanjung Bungah.

BFM Radio interview: Tanjung Bungah tragedy – who’s to blame?

This is the BFM interview with me on the Tanjung Bungah landslide traged ythat was aired at 8.30am today across the Klang Valley. See what you make of it.

At packed press conference, Penang NGOs call for wide-ranging independent probe on landslide tragedy

Civil society groups in Penang – Penang Forum (of which Aliran is part), the Consumers Association of Penang, Sahabat Alam Malaysia, and residents groups as well as environmental group Peka – turned up in full force at a packed press conference this morning to call for an end to all hill-slope development.

Tanjung Bungah landslide site was the very first case highlighted by Penang Hills Watch

Of the dozens of cases of hill clearing highlighted by Penang Hills Watch, the site of the disaster this morning was the first in a series of dozens of cases brought to the attention of local authorities earlier this year.

Landslide at Tanjung Bungah – this time no rainfall (updated)

A landslide has struck Tanjung Bungah somewhere in the hills near Lorong Lembah Permai 3 in Tanjung Bungah not far from TAR College at around 8.30am today.

Unleash the writer within you! A young writers’ workshop

Aliran invites young people aged 18 to 35 to participate in our Young Writers Workshop with the theme “Youth aspirations and the 14th general election” this weekend 21-22 October 2017 in Penang.

24 residents’ groups issue wake-up call to resolve Penang’s flood problems

This statement was released today by a couple of dozen residents’ group from all over Penang Island in the wake of the worst floods in recent times:

Alarmed by the impact of the recent floods that hit Penang on 15 September 2017, several residents associations and community representatives have gathered together to make a collective call to the state government of Penang and their elected representatives to, this time, take the situation of rainfall, floods and hill erosion very seriously.