Will Lim Guan Eng's administration fulfill the late Karpal's two requests on the illegal land clearing in Bukit Relau and also challenge the ban on non-Muslims from using certain words?

GEORGE TOWN: Parti Cinta Malaysia (PCM) vice president Huan Cheng Guan wants the Penang government to fulfill two last wishes of the late Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh.

He wants Chief Minister Lim Guan Engs administration to take stern action against the culprits responsible for the illegal land clearing of Bukit Relau in Jalan Bukit Gambir.

Secondly, he demanded the DAP government to use its two-third majority in the state assembly to challenge the ban by the Penang Muftis Department on non-Muslims using 40 Arabic terms in the state.

Firing the first salvo after announcing his candidacy for the Bukit Gelugor parliamentary by-election here today, Huan pointed out that Karpal made the first wish last July and the second in January this year.

Can the Penang government honour and fulfill the late Karpal Singhs last two requests to the Penang leadership which went unheeded? he asked.

The virtual balding of Bukit Relau went unnoticed until Seri Delima assemblyman RSN Rayer highlighted it in the press mid-last year. The developer was fined RM30,000, which the late Karpal described as slap on the wrist.

As for the Arabic words, the terms banned are solat, surau, masjid, Allah, Firman Allah, ulama, hadith, ibadah, Kaabah, Qadhi, Illahi, wahyu, mubaligh, Syariah, Qiblat, Haji, mufti, Rasul, Iman, dakwah, wali, fatwa, Imam, Nabi, Sheikh, Khutbah, Tabligh, akhirat, azan, Al Quran, As Sunnah, Auliya, Karamah, Syahadah, Baitullah, Musolla, zakat hitrah, Hajah, taqwa and soleh.

The words were decreed by the mufti as provided under subsection 48(3) and (4) of the Penang Islamic Religious Administration Enactment 2004, as exclusive to Muslims, prohibiting non-Muslims in Penang from using them.

The decree was enforced on April 29, 2010.

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University of Virginia scientists will lead a mapping and modeling project that could help answer an important question in climate change research: How does land use affect the planet's climate?

"There are global implications for every land use decision," said Deborah Lawrence, an environmental scientist at UVa. Most of these decisions are made in terms of economics; Lawrence said she wants to get the international community talking about the way those decisions - clearing forest to make way for agriculture or urban areas, for example - fit into the context of climate change.

"How do we use the land?" Lawrence said. "Let's consider the fact that it's going to affect the climate."

Land-cover change and climate are part of the same feedback loop, Lawrence said. Changes to Earth's surface, especially clearing forest, affect the reflectivity of the planet's surface and the water cycle, which can contribute to climate change and affect natural habitats, she said.

Switching to biofuels frequently is touted as a way to help slow climate change, but this could have unforeseen consequences, according to Lawrence. Increased reliance on biofuels could mean converting more land to farmland. That, as well as the additional food needed for an increasing population, could affect the global climate, she said.

Maintaining this delicate balance is what the project is all about. Lawrence and her team, which includes other UVa faculty and scientists from China, Russia and Canada, will use computer models devised by the National Center for Atmospheric Research to look for the right balance between forest, urban and agricultural land use. They also can see what happens in a variety of hypothetical situations, such as dedicating a large part of the remaining usable land to biofuel production.

"There's a cooling effect, but there's also a big carbon loss - is that offset by the cooling?" Lawrence said. "It gives us a window to look at a future world."

The model is extremely complex. It splits Earth's land surface into about 260,000 cells with sides 50 to 100 kilometers long. Each cell has different proportions of forested, bare, urban and agricultural land, which affect thousands of other variables, including reflectivity, water runoff and water cycled into the atmosphere. All of these things change when the land use inside a cell is altered.

Decisions on how to use millions of square miles of land can't be made by any one person or entity, but Lawrence said she hopes to give policymakers a starting point. They already talk about land use planning, she said, just not in the context of climate change. And although they're getting better at monitoring carbon dioxide buildup and its effect on climate, most policymakers don't think about the way land use connects to climate change.

"The issue is, for some reason, people are not dealing with the biosphere as much," Lawrence said. "There's always room to be thinking bigger."

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Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council D.V. Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday alleged that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah collected huge amount of money to fund the Congress election campaign by clearing files pertaining to land denotification and change of land use in Bangalore before the announcement of the Lok Sabha polls.

He demanded that the Chief Minister come out with a White Paper on the number of land denotifications ordered in the city and money collected from various sources for funding the partys campaign.

The former Chief Minister told presspersons here on Tuesday that he was levelling charges against Mr. Siddaramaiah based on credible information. But the government had been denying information to him on clearing of files pertaining to land denotification and change of land use in Bangalore, the BJP leader said.

The State government was not ready to part with the information regarding denotification cases, he said. I will use the RTI (Right to Information) platform to obtain the information to prove the charges against Mr. Siddaramaiah, he said. The truth would be known if the Chief Minister brought out a White Paper on land denotifications, he said.

Alleging that government machinery had failed to respond to the grievances of people in drought-hit taluks, the BJP leader said lack of coordination between the bureaucracy and the government was impeding development works.

Blaming the UPA government at the Centre for the steep hike in the toll rates on National Highway 7 leading to Kempegowda International Airport, Mr. Gowda urged Chief Minister to intervene to resolve the issue.

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LIKE our homes, we need to clear the land, which was once covered by bushes or even a jungle to make way for a place to provide us shelter, but most of us would never leave half-used building materials lying around our new home.

Or, wait for the weeds to grow back and cover our lawns.

Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had said men needed space to live and this always led to land clearing, but men can always replant trees in our homes to replace what we have cleared.

Imagine the booming world population and the amount of land cleared to make way for human space alongside the amount of pollution that follows suit if the need for human space goes unchecked.

Over the past 20 years, Malaysia has doubled its population, from 13 million to 26 million. Imagine the world and all the land that needs to be cleared for living space.

During his keynote address at the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Asia Pacific Congress 2014 in Kuching recently, Dr Mahathir said we could still make a difference, despite all that land clearing, by planting gardens for our home landscapes.

"Everyone wants a comfortable place to stay rather than a barren desert. This is where we could spend some time to replace the cleared trees with beautiful landscapes in our homes.

"We can always plant bushes and plants in a kind of haphazard way without any idea of beauty.

"But if you want to live in a good and attractive place, you will begin to think of how to plant these bushes and trees.

"Landscape ideas will emerge because we want to live in a good environment, which later will also become part of our culture," said Dr Mahathir, who played a role in the field of landscape architecture, with the formation of the National Landscape Department, initiated National Landscape Day and National Tree Planting Campaign.

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City officials amended an ordinance on Tuesday that regulates outdoor burning for commercial land-clearing.

It took several months to seriously consider the impact of changing the ordinance, said Chief Keith Kiplinger of the Nacogdoches Fire Department. We wanted to come up with something thats simple to understand.

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Bangalore, May 6: Even as the results of the Lok Sabha elections for 2014 are awaited and the fate of the thousands of candidates and the formation of the new government at the Centre will be known only after May 16, BJP Opposition Leader in the Karnataka Legislative Council D V Sadananda Gowda has accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of mobilizing huge funds for the polls through the land denotification route.

Addressing a news conference in Bangalore on Tuesday, the former Chief Minister alleged that the Chief Minister has collected huge amount of money to fund elections by clearing files related to land de-notifications and change of land use before the announcement of elections to Lok Sabha.

Gowda demanded that Siddaramaiah should come out with a white paper on cases of land de-notifications in Bangalore City and collection of money from various sources for funding the partys campaign.

The BJP leader, who himself is a candidate from the Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency, said he had leveled charges against Siddaramaiah based on credible information.

But the State Government has been denying information to him on clearing of files related to land denotifications and change of land use in Bangalore, the BJP leader said.

Accusing that the state government was not ready to part with the information regarding denotification cases, he said: ''I will use RTI platform to obtain the required information to prove charges against Siddaramaiah.

The truth would be known if the Chief Minister brought out the white paper on land transactions, he said.

Alleging that the Government machinery has failed to respond to the grievances of the drought hit taluks, the BJP leader said lack of coordination between bureaucracy and the government impeding development works.

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