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When PH won GE and it was annced that GST would be scrapped in favour of Sales Tax, the local anti-PAP types cheered saying that taz the way to beat rises in the cost of living and inflation: bring down prices. I think even P Ravi joined in. Since then, the silence has been deafening given Malaysian parliament question time... 

The execution of Prabu N Pathmanathan last Friday, 26 October 2018 despite last minute pleas from his family, the Malaysian government and a citizens’ petition for clemency signed by four local civil society organisations – Maruah, Think Centre, Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign and Function 8 and 49 Singaporeans is... 

The similarities are striking: GBTB was found to have acted similar to what AHTC is accused of: awarding projects through waiver of tender without compelling reasons, and prematurely communicating to the contractor that it would be awarded the contract even before a tender was called. GBTB even cited, like AHTC, a tight timeline...