Posts Tagged as ‘Penang’

December 29, 2008

This is a WARNING!!!

Protesters in Penang today called on Malay rulers to revoke the citizenship of Malaysians who dispute Malay special rights and demanded safeguards to their special position as enshrined in the constitution.
At the end of the rally, the coalition’s leaders led by its president, Md Radzi Daud, submitted a memorandum to Penang governor Abdul Rahman Abbas.
The [...]

May 19, 2008

A BN U-turn_no mega project for Penangites

Since the DAP with its allies, PKR and PAS, stormed into power in the March 8 general election, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s state government has made numerous calls to the federal government to carry out these projects sooner than later.
This was in keeping with its electoral promises in which the then the DAP-led state [...]

May 12, 2008

Free spectacles for blind politicians

 

Edmond R | May 12, 08 4:45pm
 

It was a case of the blind leading the blind when the Penang State Education Department denied Dr P Ramasamy, the state’s Deputy Chief Minister II, the opportunity to distribute free spectacles to 223 poor students in Penang recently. The reason cited by Deputy Education Minister Dr Wee Ka [...]

May 12, 2008

PGCC project: Lim wants answers

 

Athi Veeranggan | May 12, 08 12:38pm
 

The controversial mega Penang Global City Centre project saga continues with the present Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng requesting his predecessor Koh Tsu Koon to guide him “on how to re-zone the project site to its original zoning”.
“After all, he was the one who had reclassified the site zone [...]