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Plastic matters

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | November 22, 2010 13 Comments

SELANGOR’S No Plastic Bag Day campaign recently came under attack in a report on online news portal The Malaysian Insider. The 9 Nov 2010 report claimed that “hypermarkets and retail shops” in Selangor have suffered up to 30% decline in their businesses on Saturdays since the Selangor government implemented the campaign in January 2009. In […]

TNG wins environmental journalism award

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | July 25, 2011 Leave a Comment

PETALING JAYA, 25 July 2011: The Nut Graph columnist Gan Pei Ling has won a Special Prize in Penang’s inaugural Green Journalism Award for a column she wrote about the effectiveness of banning plastic. The piece, which won her one of two special prizes in the English language category, was entitled The plastic menace and […]

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About The Nut Graph | The Nut Graph Team | Our Contributors Cindy Tham was a journalist from 1995, and worked with theSun newspaper and The Edge business and investment weekly. She has covered general, business and economic news, as well as written analysis on current issues. After all these years, she still thinks she […]

The Nut Graph stops publication

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | July 28, 2014 35 Comments

After six years, The Nut Graph will cease publication from tomorrow onwards, making this column the last one to be published. Editor and co-founder Jacqueline Ann Surin explains why and highlights some achievements.

Changing land titles: Of ‘long stories’ and anomalies

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | September 9, 2013 12 Comments

ONE of the great mysteries of urban development and local governance is how land titles change. Such is the case of a plot in Taman Aman, Petaling Jaya. Former MBPJ councillor KW MAK traces the issue.

The Nut Graph’s 2013 Merdeka Awards

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | August 31, 2013 6 Comments

The Nut Graph gives out the Merdeka Awards annually in conjunction with Peninsular Malaysia’s independence and the anniversary of our publication. This year, we honour 14 exemplary Malaysian individuals and groups. Find out who they are.

Learning from green movements in the US and China

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | February 18, 2013 Leave a Comment

There are valuable lessons that local environmental groups, and our state and federal governments, can draw from the US and China. Two documentaries tell us what they are.

A response on Lynas

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | April 2, 2012 34 Comments

I’m writing in response to Gan Pei Ling’s article What’s wrong with a rare earth plant, here? Factual inaccuracies on both sides of the Lynas rare earth plant controversy have given rise to a third constituency — environmentalists who believe in the possibility of a technological fix to the problem. I take Gan’s recent piece […]

The doughnut of justice

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | February 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

ECONOMIC development and jobs or toxic waste and radiation? The Lynas rare earth refinery in Gebeng, Kuantan was granted a temporary operating license by the Atomic Energy Licensing Board on 1 Feb 2012. Lynas claims its company contributes towards “sustainable development” and helps create jobs as rare earth materials are increasingly being used to manufacture green technology products. But […]

Uncommon Sense with Wong Chin Huat: Beyond the Jais raid

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | August 15, 2011 12 Comments

MORAL policing of Muslims is unfortunately hardly new in Malaysia. But on 3 Aug 2011, the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) went a step further by entering the Petaling Jaya-based Damansara Utama Methodist Church (DUMC), purportedly to investigate a complaint. Christian leaders and secular bodies such as the Bar Council and some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) […]

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