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Not tackling mismanagement is akin to creating a black hole for the gov’t to continue to suck money away, says Rafizi.

FEATURE Five women trekked deep into the interior of Sabah and S’wak, before raising funds for the volunteer ‘Lightup Borneo’ project.

FEATURE Under a pilot project, six households in Long Pasia, Sabah, are now enjoying free electricity around the clock.

Australian Greens party MP Kim Booth submits a motion in his Parliament to direct Hydro Tasmania to resolve the demands of the Penan.

Hundreds of Penan in Murum have been shut-in by armed police for over a week, 27 human rights NGOs say, and they want the PM to step in.

COMMENT NGOs warned about sedimentation caused by logging and other ‘development' when Bakun Dam was proposed. Now, if it overflows...

UPDATED 3.05PM They then fire shots in the air as 300 other protesters at Murum dam blockade site rush to them and ask to be arrested as well.

Serdang MP Ong Kian Ming says the Sustainable Energy Development Authority is meeting less than half its renewable energy target.

A protest involving about 20 people took place in Kota Baru, Kelantan yesterday where four people allegedly refused to disperse.

COMMENT The energy industry is now a mega business and the gov't has been subsidising private businesses handsomely.

UPDATED 5.21PM The energy minister says his deputy was mistaken about plans to raise electricity prices by next year.

PARLIAMENT TNB will implement the Fuel Cost Pass Through (FCPT) mechanism as a process to determine electricity tariff more efficiently for the consumers.

The entire state of Sarawak was struck by a blackout at about 5.40pm today, causing traffic jams and service disruptions.

UPDATED 4.25PM 'Its Norwegian chief executive Torstein Dale Sjøtveit failed to stem corruption in the state-owned company.'

KINIBIZ The gov't has committed to subsidising Biodiesel Malaysia, a joint-venture between Malaysia’s palm oil giants Sime Darby and FGV.

Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia asks why an RM2.47 billion power plant job was given to a South Korean civil engineering firm that was not even shortlisted.

The Green Technology Ministry wants to see three to five per cent green technology-compliant, newly developed buildings by 2030 under the Low Carbon Cities Framework.

It's a staggering move to dam waterways by 2020 for cheap energy - and turn the poorest state into an industrial hub.

This is by re-negotiating power supply contracts with IPPs once Pakatan assumes control of Putrajaya, says PKR. [VIDEO INSIDE]

If the three parties can't even agree on the Rapid project, don't expect them to be able to agree on how to run a country, says MCA.

Save Rivers refutes Belaga state assemblyperson Liwan Lagang’s claim that the Penans had ended their blockade of the dam.

The party’s Commercial and Investment Bureau chief Wong Chen says India and China are presently facing a downturn. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 5.20PM A PKR veep says an oil refinery project, like the one now in Pengerang, Johor, was rejected due to environmental and health concerns.

PARLIAMENT Azalina Othman (BN-Pengerang) says that this was how the organisers managed to attract people to attend the rally.