Themed Campaign For A Lane Come Ride With CM, the event started at Padang Kota Lama, Penang at 8:30am on the 25th Oct 2009.
There are three categories: Family rides which involve a distance of 12km from Town Hall Esplanade to Gurney Drive and back; Teluk Bahang rides (50km from Town Hall, Esplanade to Teluk Bahang roundabout and back) round island rides, (80km from Town Hall, Esplanade to the Jelutong Expressway, passing through Bayan Lepas, then to Balik Pulau, Teluk Bahang, Batu Ferringhi and back) .
Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng completed the 12 km ride within 40 minutes. Some 350 cyclists joined him in the event.
Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and his team took time off to attend a Deepavali function organized by "Iron Lady" M. Shanta, an ex-resident of Kampung Buah Pala. Among those who attended the function were Prof. Dr. Ramasamy, Deputy Chief Minister II, Karpal Singh, MP Bukit Gelugor, Sanisvara Nethaji Rayer, Adun Seri Delima, Raveentharan, Adun Batu Uban and Ong Khan Lee, Adun Kebun Bunga.
Mohd. Salleh Yahya, pengerusi penduduk Kampung Tanjung Tokong, juga dikenali sebagai "Cikgu Salleh" berkata, kampung berusia lebih 200 tahun itu perlu dikekal dan dipulihara demi menyelamatkan hak pemilikan tanah penduduknya. Katanya, ia merupakan antara perkampungan dalam bandar yang masih wujud di negeri ini yang masih mengekalkan budaya masyarakat Melayu tradisional dan wajarlah dipertahankan.
Menurut beliau, sejak UDA Holdings Berhad (UHB) mengambil alih tanah di situ, kawasan perkampungan itu telah diisytihar sebagai setinggan menyebabkan penduduk seolah-olah hilang hak terhadap tanah mereka.
Sejak 1994 hingga 2004, UHB mengarahkan penduduk kampung berpindah dari perkampungan itu secara berperingkat-peringkat, bagaimanapun sehingga hari ini pembangunan yang dirancang tergendala.
Taman Kota Permai, Bukit Mertajam, Penang has been the talk of the town recently because of the 2 controversial videos produced by citizen journalist Jimmy Leow. In these videos, he recorded the frustration of the residents who have endured several flash flood since 2007.
In response to the videos, Padang Lalang representative, Tah Cheong Heng held a press conference and requested the Leow to remove the videos from his blog, youtube and Malaysiakini or face the court of law.
He claimed that he was not given a fair chance to defend his position over the flood issue.
The residents' expectation was quite simple, they wanted the state government and MPSP to look into their problems and provide them with a permanent solution.
Wanting to solve the problems of the residents, YDP Tuan Haji Mohktar Mohd. Jait of MPSP , accompanied by YB Tan Cheong Heng, Adun of Padang Lalang visited the affected area for the first time. This visit is part of the new preliminary round of meetings between the residents, Adun and MPSP.
Residents are hoping for a quick solution so that they can go back to their normal lives again.
Adun Padang Lalang, Tan Cheong Heng was dissatisfied with citizen journalist Jimmy Leow videos "Flood victims : Adun did not help us Part I & II which he claims to be unprofessionally done and one sided.
Tan said in the press conference that he was not given the chance to explain his side of the story.
He has requested Leow to remove the videos from his blog, youtube and Malaysiakini.
Jimmy Leow is a trained citizen journalist and has been contributing a lot of videos pertaining to human rights, religious understanding and the environment.
In part one, we saw the residents of Tmn Kota Permai, Bukit Mertajam, Penang enduring the flash floods which often hit their homes.
They claimed that the cause of the floods was contributed by the ground sinkage caused by the sewage project near their housing area.
This time around, CJ Jimmy Leow visited two homes which were badly effected by the ground sinkage and one needs to see it to believe it, the extend of the damages.
Build at the turn of the 19th century in Suffolk Estate owned by Captain Francis Light, the founder of the British Settlement of Penang, Suffolk House was the home of the early governors and the scne of many important social and official events.
Over the years, it has undergone many alternations and had many uses. In the 1810s and 1820s it served as Government House and critical political issues, such as the founding of Singapore, were in all probability first discussed here by Sir Stamford Raffles. Subsequently it was a home and a school before falling into severe disrepair by the 1970.
The campaign to restore Suffolk House began in 1961. Full, grade one restoration to international standards was only completed in 2007, as a result of a tri-partite effort between the state government of Penang, HSBC Bank and Penang Heritage Trust.
In 2008, the restoration won an Award of Distinction in the UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Awards for the Culture Heritage Conservation Program.
There to receive the award was Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng.
Taman Kota Permai, Bukit Mertajam, Penang is just like any type of taman or housing estate. Residents lived their simple lives daily and go about their routine until about two years ago. When it rains heavily, the residents drop everything they do and turn on the red alert.
All eyes will be fixed on the water level as there has been several flash floods for the past two years.
The funny thing is there is no river or huge monsoon drains which may cause such floods. So, what is causing the floods?
CJ Jimmy Leow investigates and asked the flood victims of Taman Kota Permai.
Persatuan Penduduk Kampung Tanjong Tokong menggesa campur tangan kerajaan pusat untuk mempercepatkan proses mewartakan kampung itu sebagai zon warisan.
Pengerusinya, Mohd. Salleh Yahya, juga dikenali sebagai "Cikgu Salleh" berkata, kampung berusia lebih 200 tahun itu perlu dikekal dan dipulihara demi menyelamatkan hak pemilikan tanah penduduknya.
Katanya, ia merupakan antara perkampungan dalam bandar yang masih wujud di negeri ini yang masih mengekalkan budaya masyarakat Melayu tradisional dan wajarlah dipertahankan.
Menurut beliau, sejak UDA Holdings Berhad (UHB) mengambil alih tanah di situ, kawasan perkampungan itu telah diisytihar sebagai setinggan menyebabkan penduduk seolah-olah hilang hak terhadap tanah mereka.
Seorang penduduk Kg Tanjung Tokong, En Ariffin Bin Man menyatakan bahawa kerajan pusat harus mengambil tahu keadaan di kampung ini kerana kerajaan pusat yang menjanjikan kemajuan dan pembangunan Kg. Tanjung Tokong sejak berpuluhan tahun yang lalu.
Beliau juga menyoal pihak manakah yang bertanggung jawab untuk menaikan taraf orang Melayu di Kg Tanjung Tokong?
UHB mula mengambil alih tanah di kampung itu sejak 1974 bagi melaksanakan pembangunan di situ termasuk membina kawasan perumahan dan pusat perniagaan moden.
Sejak 1994 hingga 2004, UHB mengarahkan penduduk kampung berpindah dari perkampungan itu secara berperingkat-peringkat, bagaimanapun sehingga hari ini pembangunan yang dirancang tergendala.
Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng was at the Department of Meteorology, Bayan Lepas, Penang briefing reporters that the recent tsunami warning has been lifted and there was no cause for concern as Penang is safe.
A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck off the city of Padang on the coast of Indonesias Sumatra island on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami warning and witness reports of house damage and fires.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued a tsunami watch for Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Thailand.The tsunami alert was canceled after no significant waves were generated.
The quake was felt around the region, with some high-rise buildings in the city state of Singapore, 275 miles to the northeast, evacuating their staff.
Padang, the capital of Indonesias West Sumatra province, sits on one of the worlds most active fault lines where the Indo-Australia plate grinds against the Eurasia plate to create regular earth tremors and sometimes quakes.
