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AT A TIME when a sinkhole appeared on Jalan Masjid India, followed by a second one that led to the disappearance of 48-year-old Indian tourist G. Vijaya Lakshmi from Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh on August 23, another sinkhole emerged in front of the Indah Water Konsortium (IWK) treatment plant in Wangsa Permai.           A nearby resident reported noticing a manhole forming in front of the treatment plant but did not investigate further, fearing that the ground surrounding the hole might collapse further.          My initial attempt was to only contact a few key people regarding the matter so as not to create an alarm. Sinkholes can and do happen any time due to pipe laying work. As I recall the incident where my former school principal Mr Yong Chee Seng's car took a nose dive down the bore hole at Jalan Universiti near Sin Chew, the depth of the bore hole for IWK pipe laying work must be at least 30 feet below the road level.  ...

  The hue and cry over the Palestinian issue now is nothing but a hype created by propagandists who try to discredit Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.          This renaming of Jalan Raja Laut 1 to Jalan Palestine, was in fact during former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yasin's era. He was PM from  1 March 2020 – 16 August 2021.  The above article written by Ida Lim was dated Sunday 27 Sept 2020.           In October 2023, former prime minister Dr. Mahathir had given his 100% support towards Hamas. Why was there no big brouhaha over this in the past, and why only now?                    It is also obvious that this Hamas issue has brought together three political enemies in 2023 - Dr Mahathir, Muhyiddin Yasin and Mat Sabu -- but why was there no hype over it? Why everyone is so worked up now but not back then? It's because some cybertroopers are working round the cloc...

  It is with sadness that I share my observations on Malaysian politics, which seem to point to a concerning trend.           It's not that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is "perfect" or the knight in shining armour many Malaysians had hoped for.            As one gentleman put it, this is a choice between "the devil and the deep blue sea." Another person wrote: Who will be the Knight in Shining Armour then?           Trust me, keep my message, very soon, they will unveil the hero. It will not be Najib Razak, or Hadi Awang, or Muhyiddin Yassin. And definitely, not Dr. Mahathir Mohamad or Akmal Salleh.             They may choose a young leader to rally around and elevate in an effort to defeat Anwar and Pakatan Harapan.           It's worth noting that Chris Watson, founder of the Australian Labor Party, became Aust...

           Misinformation is aplenty but information like the above is hardly blasted out by the cybertroopers on social media.           As a result, people feel depressed. The country's economy is also dragged down as people are trying to save for the tough times.           During the 90s, the GDP growth was overheated, resulting in an increase in the bank interests. The interest rate, as I remember, breached the 10% rate.           People thought that the economy was doing very well. Spending was high, and market sentiments were good. Everyone thought Malaysia under Dr Mahathir Mohamad was an Asian Tiger until one man, George Soros exposed the fallacy.           Years later, when we look back, we realised that Dr. Mahathir had used the country's petrol money to build mega projects, many of which were unsustainable.     ...

This video is being viralled. With it, the Chinese and Indians who are already unhappy with the former governments which sidelined them, feel more incensed against the Madani government.           Most of the attacks are on the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PMX) himself. Although for the first time, PMX allocated RM50 million to places of worship of non-Muslims, this pales off because of the amount of negativism people are watching on social media.           Take this video, for example, a closer look of the ambulances used shows that it is not local.           Most of the ambulances that you see on the street are different from the above enlarged image, which resembles ambulances used in Gaza:          Why then a video is put out onto the social media? To show you as if the Palestinians arriving in Malaysia were given a grand welcome while you or your rela...

PRESS RELEASE FOR NST 16.8.24 The stance by the new Mayor of Kuala Lumpur Datuk Seri Dr Maimunah Mohd Sharif that there will be zero tolerance for corruption is indeed a significant and much-needed step to pave the way for a clean and efficient administration.           It’s all the more significant since her commitment to a ‘clean’ City Hall was her maiden public announcement since taking office.           As a first step, she has instructed the department heads and the executive management to monitor enforcement officers and others  who are said to be the middlemen between the offerors and receivers of bribes.           Hopefully, this will eventually see a situation where under the table payments give way to over the table service.           The Mayor’s statement is not just a statement.  It is a signal that the city is set to embrace a more transparent an...

The moment you walk into the cafeteria at Menara Kuala Lumpur City Hall, any time between 8am through 4:15pm, you will see many people have their meals. Of course, this was about 20 years ago, but the situation has not improved.           It is like the proverbial saying, "Malaysians never stop eating 24 hours." Forget about the lunch and coffee breaks, every hour of the day, there are people eating in the cafeteria.           A resident in my area told me that one day, when she went to the Selayang Municipal Council some 10 years ago, she was suprised to see many of the staff hiding below the table discussing about their multilevel marketing business.           "At the counter, it appeared to be very busy with a lot of people, and a few staff working, but in the office, people were doing something else," she told me, when complaining about the local council.          There...