the World Heritage Committee meeting in quebec xty has added eight new cultural sites to UNESCO’s world heritage list on the morning of the 7 of July, and george town, penang, where i was born and grew up, is one of them. joy and elation greeted the news as george …
these 2 projects are shelved! not totally canceled! or as DPM najib put it, ‘deferred’. malaysiakini reported that the economic planning unit of the PM’s dept. announced these 2 projects had been shelved… and what reasons do you think they gave? these projects are not ‘people centred’. it seems that …
only 2 days ago, the hot news everywhere, including the two most popular online media, malaysiakini and malaysian insider, were about the 100 days of pakatan rakyat in power – interviews of penang’s CM, perak and selangor MB and so on. then suddenly yesterday, a bombshell was dropped – announcement …
yep, today marks the 100th day of the new state government, lead by DAP’s lim guan eng (LGE) as chief minister. so how? any improvement? anything they had done/implemented/put forward that were consider good? bad? here is the ‘report card’ from NST:the report from NST gets off on a negative …
or rather it should be ‘sore losers umno’ since the gomen (federal) is full of umno people. no, that ‘punishing penang’ does not come from me but from the penang CM…. though of course i had sort of implied this before in a few of my earlier posts. well, malaysiakini …
only in bolehland! where the ‘police di raja malaysia!’ (police is the king in malaysia). apparently that seemed to be the case. as you can see from this post of mine, the 5 protesters went to the police station to lodge a police report that they had been harassed by …
continuation from my 2 earlier posts ‘anti ISA rally in penang – 4 arrested‘ and ‘7 still in police station‘. read the update straight from the horse’s mouth – bk ong and stanleyf! ong at his penang watch site with photos (eg this photo you see here, taken from there). …
just as i finished posting the post below with the heading ‘4 arrested…’, i received a sms from stanley (6.00pm), a church friend, and one of the hindraf member and organiser of the anti isa rally in penang. (remember, he is also the one who is very passionate on the …
i first learned of this from anil netto’s blog. (as at 3.15pm). so i went to malaysiakini to check if the news is there but there wasn’t any. it was only about 2 hours later that i see the news appearing in malaysiakini – 4 arrested, it stated. wow… anil’s …
last saturday (3 may), i joined in one of the penang office of human development (POHD) project, ‘street night walk’. this project is a regular project of ‘the lighthouse’, a ministry of POHD, a drop-in centre that, apart from providing daily meals, also provides a place for them to bathe, …