Stop oppressing the Christians

By Emmanuel Joseph
MALAYSIA: I rarely read the Bible in Bahasa Malaysia. The only time I do read is when I help prepare the liturgy for Sunday Mass. My church has one of the readings in Bahasa, to be more inclusive of our Sabahan, Sarawakian and Indonesian brothers and sisters who attend. So banning the Bible in Bahasa does not really affect me personally as a Christian.

Taib: Sarawak assembly to be dissolved on Monday

Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud says he will contest in
the upcoming Sarawak elections but will likely
step down as chief minister mid-term.

KUCHING: Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud announced that the state assembly would be dissolved on Monday (March 21), paving the way for state polls.

The country’s longest serving chief minister, who has helmed the state since 1981, also said that he would contest the upcoming state elections but would step down as chief minister mid-term.

Closest full moon of 2011 on March 19 – high tides – Saturn

Today – March 19 – features the closest full moon of 2011. Some are calling it a supermoon. As a result, you might look for higher-than-usual tides along the ocean coastlines throughout the world.

What’s more, the bright point of light in the vicinity of tonight’s moon is the planet Saturn, the 6th planet outward from the sun.

Buzzing news from abroad - this will spread like fire on dry bush

In a flat above a restaurant in Covent Garden, an investigative reporter called Clare and a tribesman from Borneo covered in tattoos prepare to transmit their daily revolutionary radio broadcast deep into the Borneo jungle.

David Cohen, The Evening Standard  

“Rather than hide, we’ve decided to come out fighting”: Clare Rewcastle Brown and Peter John Jaban are revealing their identities as the campaigners behind Radio Free Sarawak

Stop the Bible in Malay and ban Christians the use of the word Allah?

By an insulted Muslim
 
Can the Malaysian government obliterate or ban the Internet completely, or ban Muslims from using the Internet? The whole Bible from "Genesis" to "Revelation" in "Bahasa Indonesia Seharihari" is available on the Internet.

Christians deprived of bibles in Sabah, Sarawak

Luke Rintod of FMT

KOTA KINABALU: Copies of the Malay version of the bible known as the ‘Al-kitab’ are needed by the thousands in East Malaysia where majority of the Christian populace is conversant in Malay.

‘Arrogant’ Hisham should quit

The whole issue involving the bible and the
government's stand is 'discriminatory' and
'repressive' according to Malaysian Civil
Liberties Movement (MCLM).

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) has slammed the “arbitrary” defacement of the al-Kitab, the Bahasa Malaysia version of the bible, alleging that Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein’s actions and words ‘smacked of disrespect and arrogance’ to people of all faith.

Sabah Cabinet set for reshuffle?

Luke Rintod of FMT

Will PBS president Joseph Pairin Kitingan
step aside as Sabah Deputy Chief Minsiter
to give way to his colleague Dr Yee Mo Chai?

KOTA KINABALU: Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) deputy president, Dr Yee Moh Chai, is tipped to be appointed a Deputy Chief Minister (DCM) of Sabah to replace Peter Pang En Yin, who was on Wednesday dropped from the post  a day after he joined Gerakan.

Should Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman deem it fit to appoint Yee, then PBS would have an unprecedented two DCMs in the state government.

Greed ruins Malaysia, says Simon Sipaun

By Eleazar Zachariah

KOTA KINABALU: The wise man of Sabah, Simon Sipaun, warned that human greed is on the rise and that it would ruin the country as it destroy everything in its path, be they good men, good policies and programmes.

Conditional bible release ‘simply politics’, says Bian

The Home Ministry's move to slam two pre-conditions
to the release of the Bahasa Malaysia bible is
'unconstutional and illegal' says Sarawak PKR.

KUCHING:  The decision to release 30,000 copies of the Al-Kitab, the Bahasa Malaysia version of the bible, is a political exercises to please Sarawakian Christians and a sign that Umno leaders are “not too certain that the release is altogether legal”, said Sarawak PKR chairman Baru Bian.