Gov’t fails to learn from Bkt Merah tragedy

By Charles Santiago

Severe birth defects, eight leukemia cases over five years in a community of 11,000, tears and anguish of the poor people from a largely shoe-making community – these are not news headlines. Neither is it the plot of a movie.

These are the consequences of carelessly allowing the Asian Rare Earth factory to be built in Bukit Merah, Perak in 1982. When Mitsubishi Chemical started operating its rare earth factory, the villagers complained of choking sensation, pungent smell, coughs and colds.

Puisi Perjuangan

Bintang Bersinar

Suara Tunku kedengaran bergema di mana-mana
Gemanya tertanam di sanubari kita sekian lama
Bukankah Sabah, Sarawak, dan Malaya
tarafnya rakan kongsi sama rata
Dalam membentuk Persekutuan Malaysia?

Pairin's silence on NCR is moral abhorance to KDMs

By Peter Marajin 

KOTA KINABALU : In respond to Johnny Mositun's statement over the above issue, i would say that Joseph Pairin Kitingan just cannot hide behind the cultural nature of KDCA and use this as an excuse to remain mute in the wake of the onslaught on KDM's native customary lands.

Pairin cannot completely detach himself from this issue given his position as the Deputy Chief Minister of the very government which bent on destroying the NCR of the KDMs whose native ethnic he himself belong to.

Pairin cannot turn a blind eye on the fact that being a President of KDCA he has a moral duty to protect and safeguard the rights of his people from being unjustly treated in their very own land.

STAR wins over members from Sabah BN parties

By Luke Rintod of FMT

New political party, Sabah STAR 's
popularity is fast spreading in Sabah.

BELURAN: The Sarawak-based State Reform Party’s (STAR) Sabah chapter received a shot in the arm when 2,800 new members handed over their membership applications to the party.

Sabah STAR, which is helmed by maverick politician Jeffrey Kitingan, is fast gaining support in the state, especially among the KadazanDusun and Murut communities. The party now has 120,000 members in Sabah.

The new members who were formerly from Umno, Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS), Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) and PKR joined the party during the launch of Sabah Beluran STAR division last weekend.

Beluran is currently represented in Parliament by Umno’s Roland Kiandee, who is also the Dewan Rakyat deputy speaker.

Our Politics Of Shame & Sham

By Goh Keat Peng

Even forgetting anything that was adverse that might have gone before in our fifty-five years or forty-nine years of independence as a nation, what had transpired on our political front just this past week fills many Malaysians with deep disgust and nausea. With our eyes, ears, minds and hearts we have been witnessing a politics of shame and sham.

SAPP Perjuang Hak Asasi Tanah NCR Selain Baiki Ekonomi Negeri Sabah

Oleh Mail Mathew

Beliau optimis BN pasti tumbang pada PRU13 jika
jentera pilihanraya kukuh dan mantap.

 TENOM: Presiden Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) Datuk Seri Panglima Yong Teck Lee menegaskan bahawa parti itu akan terus membela nasib rakyat yang tertindas kerana masalah rampasan tanah dan hak asasi tanah anak negeri (NCR) seperti yang berlaku di Kinabatangan, Serudong Tawau, Kudat, Tenom dan diLahad Datu setelah parti itu diberi mandat rakyat membentuk kerajaan baru selepas pilihanraya umum kali ke-13 (PRU13).

Beliau berkata, rakyat cukup menderita jika keadaan sebegini berterusan apabila hak rakyat yang miskin terus tertindas dimana tanah tanah dirampas, rumah dirobohkan oleh syarikat syarikat gergasi dari luar Sabah, malangnya pihak berkuasa khususnya PDRM tidak berbuat apa apa.

Petronas should repay PTPN study loans by Sabahans, demands new NGO

KOTA KINABALU: A new citizen movement that has demanded that oil royalty for Sabah should be at least 70 percent, Oil for Future Movement (OFF), now wants state-owned Petronas to repay all study loans from PTPN (National Higher Education Fund Corporation) by Sabahan students.

OFF chairman, Phillip Among, said thousands from Sabah who had loaned study aids from the government-controlled PTPN have become victims instead of the scheme when they could not find jobs for courses taken under the PTPN loan.

Don't Dilly Dally Over RCI

Dr Jeffrey

 “The Prime Minister should announce once and for all whether the RCI is on or off. The PM should show sincerity and clear the confusion” said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, Chairman of STAR Sabah.

Right now, the dilly-dallying shows that the Government is insincere and only playing with the emotions of the people on the eve of the forthcoming general elections.

The delay is also embarrassing BN component leaders who have been made to believe and committed themselves to the announcement of the RCI that never materialized.

Will Sabah BN/PR Ask for 50% Oil Royalties

Dr. Felix Chong

“Will Sabah DAP lead Sabah Pakatan and ask for 50% oil revenue for Sabah and more particularly demand for 50% if and when Pakatan forms the next federal government” asked Dr. Felix Chong Kat Fah of STAR Sabah.

“Similarly, will the Sabah BN ask for 50% of the oil revenue for Sabah?”

“As part of STAR Sabah’s causes and aspirations for Sabah, STAR is seeking an increase of the oil revenue to 50% nett revenue. It is set out in STAR’s Petroleum Masterplan which is comprehensive and covers a wide range of policies for Sabah’s oil and gas beneficial to Sabah and Sabahans.”

Adakan RCI Sebelum PRU13, STAR Tenom

Naib Ketua Bahagian STAR (State Reform Party)
kawasan Tenom, Gosubin Yosundang.

Oleh Ambrose M. Matthew
TENOM: Kerajaan digesa agar jangan terlalu ghairah mengadakan pilihanraya umum kali ke-13 sekiranya masalah mengenalpasti kesahihan dokumen pengenalan diri belum diselesaikan terlebih dahulu menerusi Suruhanjaya Siasatan DiRaja (RCI).

Adalah difahamkan bahawa penubuhan RCI telah pun dipersetujui oleh Kabinet Persekutuan dan dijangka akan diumumkan Perdana Menteri pada bila bila masa sahaja, kata Naib Ketua Bahagian Parti STAR (State Reform Party) kawasan Tenom Gosubin Yosundang.