I read with frustration the views by Mitra officers in Malaysiakini and would like to add on the plight of three generations of plantation workers. On 13th August, hundreds of plantation workers gathered at Parliament urging the government to enact a sunset law that would legally compel plantation owners including government-linked companies (GLCs) like Sime…
Category: Housing
PMX’s Lopsided Defense of the Urban Renewal Act
PMX’s statement regarding the Urban Renewal Act (URA), as reported in Malay Mail 19/3/2025, has several significant inaccuracies. The first is that there are no clauses in the URA mandating that the original residents will beresettled in the new property developed at that site. Neither are there any specific clauses statingthat the ethnic composition of…
Padang Meha’s continuing saga
by Jeyakumar Devaraj. Interests of corporate class prioritized over basic rights of citizens
Housing is not a commodity. Remove it from the free market!
by A. Sivarajan. The government should take over the responsibility of providing first homes
Malakoff Corporation to cut power and water supply to its own estate workers, evicting them forcefully
PSM condemns Malakoff Corporation’s plans to evict poor estate workers