Posted by Steven Sim on June 14th, 2008 | Categorized as Community, Government, Politik | Tagged as petrol increase, protest
Yahala - We must bring them down! (D’Leh, from the movie 10,000 B.C.)
Peaceful protest by the Rakyat against Old Man Lah’s haphazard and arbitrary petrol policy - 7 June 08, 5pm, Sungai Dua toll plaza.
T.K. and I with a group of DAP comrades from Bkt. Mertajam joined with our friends from PKR and PAS leading [...]
Posted by Steven Sim on June 5th, 2008 | Categorized as Community, Economy, Politik | Tagged as petrol increase
Top 10 anecdotes today from the price hike:
1. Both DAP Lim Kit Siang and PKR Anwar Ibrahim called the price increase “unconscionable”.
2. Penang Chief Minister critized the sharp increase as “socially unjust” and the subsidy policy does not guarantee the benefit of the poor.
3. Mahathir revealled in his blog statement that Petronas can actually maintain [...]
Posted by Steven Sim on June 5th, 2008 | Categorized as Community, Economy, Malaysia | Tagged as petrol increase
Kit wrote: A Really Hefty Price Increase
Should be a “basi” (”gone bad”, i.e., outdated) news by now…I received an smsĀ just slightly beforeĀ 6pm from a friend in KL informing the increase and by 6.30pm, I’ve received calls from people frantically trying to verify the relatively extorbitant price they will be paying today compared to yesterday.
While I [...]