‘No need to be God, just do your job’

By Queville To of FMT
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Dr Yee Moh Chai has come under fire for double talk with his remark that he cannot promise that the historical site of the High Court in the city will remain untouched by developers.

Yee said he simply could not tell the people that nothing would happen to the land that is occupying a prime spot in the city centre in future as he “is not God”.

Rahman let us have debate on the issue, dare Star leaders

Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan

Daniel John Jambun

KOTA KINABALU :  In addition to our chairman Dr Jeffrey Kitingan's response on the issue Rahman Dahlan brought up yesterday, we in Star Sabah dare the Kota Belud MP who is also Sabah BN secretary to a public debate with him anywhere in the state capital or in Kota Belud.

If he is so confident on his newly-found strength 'archives' on the formation of Malaysia in 1963 then he should take up my challenge before it is too late for him to salvage his dignity and that of Umno and Sabah BN altogether.

ACCEPT your karma BN, stop the foolishness and re-issue Waytha’s passport

Hindraf Makkal Sakthi chairman Waythamoorthy Ponnusamy wants to return home after over four years in involuntary exile in London where he has political asylum as a human rights advocate. His homecoming, with or without an international passport, has been set for Aug 1.

Waytha would like to return home in dignity but apparently the Home Ministry isn’t playing ball. The Ministry is yet to advise the Malaysian High Commission via the Foreign Ministry to issue Waytha with a passport. He travels at the moment on a UN document issued by the British Government. Suhakam the Malaysian human rights organisation, if it’s worth its salt, should take note of Waytha’s predicament. The same goes for other NGOs in the country.

Rafik Hariri UN-Habitat award for Dr Mahathir

By Cindi Loo of The Sun

PETALING JAYA (July 8, 2012): Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been named as recipient of the 2012 Rafik Hariri UN-Habitat Memorial Award as a recognition of his leadership, statesmanship and good governance.

He was selected out of 13 other nominations from Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, United States, Canada, El Salvador, Nicaragua, India, Bangladesh, UK, Japan and the Philippines by the award steering committee on June 29.

He will be honoured in an award ceremony in New York on Sept 28.

"The per capita income in Malaysia during his time increased eight times. The model of thinking to get out of problems and crisis was almost the same as that of prime minister Rafik Hariri," said International Jury chairman Mervat Tallawy in a press statement on the UN-Habitat website.

MP Rahman Dahlan, a Typical Umno Stooge - Dr. Jeffrey

“Rahman Dahlan’s remarks that Sabah and Sarawak joined the Federation as the 12th and 13th States of Malaysia is a typical UMNO stand that not only reflect his lack of understanding of history on the formation of Malaysia but confirms my opinion that many of our Sabah leaders are mere stooges and proxies of Kuala Lumpur leaders.  These Sabah leaders, no longer have the heart and desires to fight for the special rights and position of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia.” said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief, in response to Dahlan’s statement published in the Daily Express and Borneo Post yesterday.

One cannot simply pick up a paragraph in the proclamation which mention Sabah and Sarawak along with the States in Malaya that this makes the two independent States as simply additions to the existing States of Malaya.  

31 ditahan ‘Occupy’ pejabat MB Pahang, 2 dicekik polis

Oleh Sidiqin Omar

KUANTAN 10 Julai: Seramai 31 penduduk Cameron Highland termasuk 12 perempuan dan enam kanak-kanak ditahan polis dalam bantahan ‘Occupy’ di hadapan Pejabat Menteri Besar Pahang, kira-kira jam 4.00 petang tadi.

Setiausaha Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) Cameron Highland, Suresh Kumar memberitahu, pembantu Ahli Parlimen Sungai Siput, S Nagendran dan seorang lagi dikenali Uthayakumar, dicekik Ketua Polis Kuantan, Jasmani Yusof ketika ditangkap.

Sidek’s daughter got ‘lion’s share’ of solar power deal, Pakatan MPs say

Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan retired as the Chief Secretary to the Government last
month and was immediately named as Petronas chairman. — Reuters pic

KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 — Malaysia’s renewable energy authority must explain the award of nearly two-thirds of a lucrative feed-in tariff (FiT) solar-power contract to the daughter of Petronas’ new chairman Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan despite her inexperience in the industry, two Pakatan Rakyat (PR) lawmakers demanded today.

The DAP’s Tony Pua and his PKR ally Nurul Izzah Anwar highlighted records they said showed Suzi Suliana Mohd Sidek and her business partners were handed the “lion’s share” of the limited contract introduced last year to enable homeowners to feed electricity produced by solar panels onto the national power grid.

PR/BN in Sabah, S'wak should be invited to join UBA

By Joe Fernandez
KOTA KINABALU : The PR/BN chapters in Sabah and S'wak should be invited to join UBA on condition that these said chapters will achieve autonomy, if they don't already have, as soon as possible.

To avoid the Sapp kind of about-turns, those signing up with UBA should take a Public Pledge and sign a Memorandum of Understanding with all UBA members.

Bludgeoned natives to sue police

By Joseph Tawie of FMT

A father and son who were attacked by gangsters are planning to sue the police for not acting on their report and for detaining them instead.

KUCHING: A native landowner and his son who were bludgeoned by gangsters on Feb 14 last year while defending their property and who were later imprisoned by police for lodging a report on the incident, are now planning to sue the authorities.

Minggat Nyakin and his son Juan were badly beaten by the gangsters when they tried to block the thugs from extracting timber from their NCR land at Sungai Rotan and Sungai Penyaru Kuba, Sarikei.

According to Minggat, the gangsters had the intention to kill both of them, but since his son had managed to escape to seek help, they had to hurriedly left him unconscious and sprawled on the ground.

‘BN and Umno leaders pawning Sabah’

By  Queville To of FMT

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) has denounced Kota Belud MP Abdul Rahaman Dahlan’s view that Sabah is just one of the 13 states in Malaysia.

SAPP supreme council member Peter Marajin accused Abdul Rahman of denying Sabah’s autonomy by twisting the history of the proclamation of Malaysia in Sept 16, 1963.

“The proclamation of Malaysia read by Donald Stephens at Padang Bandaran on that particular day that Sabah is one of the 13 states in Malaysia does not mean Sabah’s status is the same as Perlis or Kedah in Malaya at that time. It is only a question of convenience that such proclamation was pronounced.