The heat is on. This morning CAP held a press conference, as the pressure intensifies for the ecologically damaging project to be scrapped.
Shocking federal approval for artificial islands in Penang
This conditional ‘approval’ is being given just a few months before the state election in Penang. It is shocking. Whoever is responsible for this doesn’t give a hoot about the damage it will cause to fisheries and food security. Plus the whole basis of the so-called PTMP (the extravagant Penang transport master plan) is gone.
Choice of Energy Commission chairman puts him in serious conflict-of-interest situation
It’s good that Anwar says he plans to look into this. But how could such an appointment be made in the first place? Aliran has released this statement:
Aliran is alarmed by the recent appointment of a senior executive from Gamuda Bhd as the chairman of the Energy Commission, the country’s national energy regulator.
Gamuda group deputy managing director Rashdan Yusof was appointed as the head of the commission with effect from 15 February.
Najib deserves to remain in prison! Desist from steamrolling pardons process
Aliran has just released this statement:
Umno appears to be in a hurry to push for an early pardon for convict Najib Razak using as its basis the sole dissenting judgment against the guilty verdicts of 13 other judges at the High Court, the Court of Appeals and in two Federal Court panels.
So what is the problem?
The royals have spoken, Muslims have visited the Dalai Lama and even the Pas president has visited churches, so what is the problem, really?
T Rajamoorthy, deep thinker on global issues, passes away
Malaysia has lost one of its deep thinkers on global issues. T Rajamoorthy from Third World Network, based in Penang, has passed away after a period of illness.
Was there an agreement between Goldman Sachs and the Malaysian government for higher compensation?
Aliran released this media statement yesterday:
In Tommy Thomas’ autobiography My Story: Justice in the Wilderness, the former attorney general said he was “confident of recovering” from Goldman Sachs the huge losses the Malaysian government suffered from three 1MDB bond issues.
A great day for Michelle Yeoh and Asia at the Oscars … and for a refugee too
Let’s forget the kerfuffle over the Mentega Terbang movie for the time being and celebrate Michelle Yeoh’s win at the Oscars for best actress in the sci-fi movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, making her the first Malaysian and first Asian woman to win the award.
Combat corruption across the board
This is Aliran’s latest media statement in response to certain quarters claiming selective prosecution:
I asked ChatGPT how long Anwar would last as PM…
I was feeling a bit bored, so I decided to give ChatGPT, the online artificial intelligence (AI) tool, a test drive: