STAR Sabah to be Launched on 06 January 2012

“The State Reform Party (STAR) will officially launch the Sabah Chapter of STAR (STAR Sabah) on 06 January 2012” announced Awang Ahmad Sah Datuk Awang Sahari, the Organizing Chairman of the launching in a press statement released today.

STAR Sabah will be jointly launched by its President, Dr. Dripin Sakoi, and Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, the Chairman of the Sabah Chapter, at Hongkod Koisaan, KDCA, Penampang, at 2.00pm. and more than 5,000 people are excepted to attend the launching.

Principles beat personalities

I don’t really blame all those people who feel enraged by the apparent defection of erstwhile pro-democracy blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin to the Umno/BN or at least anti-PKR ranks.

raja petra Live telecast of the MCLM Forum in LondonBut I feel that RPK’s rank betrayal of his former followers and fans is a blessing in disguise: a timely lesson in the fact that we can count on nobody to save us but ourselves.

SAPP Tenom bidas kenyataan Akjan pertahan bantahan RCI

TENOM: Naib Ketua Pergerakan Pemuda Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) Pusat Rudy Sulaiman Mairi, membidas kenyataan Pengerusi Pertubuhan Kebajikan Dakwah dan Islamiah Malaysia (Pekida) Sabah Datu Akjan Ali Muhammad yang cuba mengaitkan perintah Allah dan Nabi Muhammad sebagai bahan terbarunya semata mata untuk mempertahan bantahannya terhadap RCI adalah bersifat terdesak dan keterlaluan.

Najib’s ex-info chief joins DAP

DAP scores a coup with Umno veterans and bloggers, including
former Pulau Manis Umno rep Mohd Ariff Sabri Aziz.

KUALA LUMPUR: Former Pulau Manis Umno assemblyman Mohd Ariff Sabri Aziz and Negeri Umno veteran Aspan Alias (photo) have joined DAP.

Having Ariff on board is a major coup for DAP because he was Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s information chief in his Pekan Umno division up until 2004.

“If you want to know, yes, that is what we are doing (joining DAP).

Life without IC for the last 46 years

SIPITANG, Jan 1, 2012: A Sipitang housewife, Rose Kalsum Zainal (left) from Kg Mesapol Lama finds life has been miserable for the last 46 years having to live without a Malaysia Identity Card. She is no less than a foreigner, even foreigners many of them are luckier than her got Mykads as soon as they arrived in this country in particular Sabah, she said.

Rose Kalsum had applied twice to get Malaysian IC, first was in 1978 in Kota Kinabalu (proof of photocopied documents supplied) but since the IC wasn’t forthcoming, she then re-applied by registering at the National Registration Department in Sipitang District office in 1990, Ever since she has been checking with the NRD every few months, the last time she went to check with NRD Sipitang was September last year where she was given the same response by the officer that her record of application was untraceable and not found in the system.

Happy New Year 2012

I've learned.... That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. 

I've learned.... That when you're in love, it shows. 

I've learned.... That just one person saying to me, "You've made my day!" makes my day.

I've learned.... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feeling in the world.

Musa’s scared of KL bosses, says Yong

Barisan Nasional will pay the price of inflicting its KL-centric
decision on Sabah come the 13th general election.

KOTA KINABALU: Chief Minister Musa Aman’s ‘subservience’ to his bosses in Kuala Lumpur over the recent cancellation of outgoing flights from Sabah to Japan, Korea and Australia will have ‘damaging consequences’ in next general election.

Accusing the state government of being cowards, local opposition Sabah Progressive People’s Party (SAPP) president Yong Teck Lee said: “This is a most disgusting and damaging consequence of the subservience of Sabah to KL.

Rci, Peluang Untuk Nyatakan Pandangan

PRESIDEN Pertubuhan Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Bersatu (UPKO) Tan Sri Bernard Dompok menasihatkan mereka yang menentang penubuhan Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja (RCI) mengenai pendatang haram dan dokumen kerakyatan palsu di Sabah menganggap RCI sebagai peluang untuk melahirkan pandangan mereka.

Menteri Perladangan dan Komoditi itu berkata RCI perlu bagi mencari penyelesaian terhadap isu pendatang haram yang lama berlarutan di Sabah.

MAS-Air Asia monopoly, State Govt has duty to save tourism industry

Everything must refer to KL. Now even tourists coming
to Sabah must fly an extra five hours via Kuala Lumpur
instead of coming direct to Sabah. This is a most
disgusting and damaging consequence of the
subservience of Sabah to KL

By Datuk Yong Teck Lee

KOTA KINABALU, Dec 30, 2011: THE cancellation of MAS direct flights from Japan, Korea and Australia is the latest manifestation of the "KL-centric" decision-making process in our nation today.

"Everything must refer to KL. Now even tourists coming to Sabah must fly an extra five hours via Kuala Lumpur instead of coming direct to Sabah. This is a most disgusting and damaging consequence of the subservience of Sabah to KL. This must change and the Sabah State Government, which labels itself as the fixed deposit of the ruling BN, has failed in its duty to protect and promote the Sabah tourism industry".

UBF ‘agrees’ to back ABU

By Luke Rintod of FMT

LABUAN: The organisors and sponsors of peninsular-based the ‘Anything But Umno’ (ABU) movement, which is calling for the removal of Umno in the next election, are seeking partners in East Malaysia.

Leading civil advocate, Haris Ibrahim (photo), yesterday flew to the Federal Territory of Labuan, defying the Sabah government’s “persona non grata” order slapped on him recently, to hold talks with Sabah political activists led by Daniel John Jambun.