Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Where is USJ 29?

It appears that local governments are in hot soup. From road without maintenance to travel-first-pay-later, councillors owe people a better explanation besides than the typical press statement.

Barely a few hours I blogged about new challenges to be faced by local authoritites, I was rocked by a new allegation of suspicious fund allocation in Subang Jaya, [...]

Are local authorities ready to meet new challenges?

When Johor Baru City Council (MBJB) is busy taking care of road works on a larger scale, there is one good samaritan only wanted to be known as Panjang, had taken it upon himself to cover potholes wherever he found them as they were posing danger in the streets, for free and not getting paid [...]

Cut, cut, cut

Via Reuters:
Oracle Corp. on Thursday cut 2,000 jobs in connection with its acquisition of rival software maker Siebel Systems and issued a profit outlook for the remainder of the year roughly in line with Wall Street estimates.

Via CNN:
Volkswagen said Friday that up to 20,000 jobs could be cut in the next three years as part [...]