A Proton Perdana V6 (source: wikipedia.org) THE Perak state government has come under fire ever since it announced it was going to replace its fleet of Proton Perdana V6 Executives with the Toyota Camry 2.4. Apparently, this is unpatriotic. Perak is not the only Pakatan Rakyat-led government that has been criticised for wanting to switch […]
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The roads we take
By Andrew Khoo(© Michal Zacharzewski / sxc.hu) WILLIAM Shakespeare once wrote: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” If only this were true of roads as well. Two weeks ago there was a reference in this column to Jalan Esfahan in Kuala Lumpur. This road was originally Jalan Selat. But in 1998, it was […]