Sarawak Land Robbing Cowgate

By Burak S. Sem, Senior Correspondent

Ladies & Gentlement,

I read in FMT, Alfred Jabu answered YB Violet Yong, “do not import Datuk Sahrizat’s cowgate scandal” in his proposal to make Sarawak to become a beef exporter and be self-sufficient in beef through SEDC. In my opinion, Alfred Jabu is right when saying that, because Datuk Sahrizat cowgate scandal swindled RM250 million from the state coffer for his family luxuries is going to be different compared to Taib Mahmud/SEDC scandal. You can imagine, to build an industrial cattle farming require at least few thousand hacters/acres of lands, but where the hell does Alfred Jabu going to get this size of lands for the cattle farm?

OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER DATUK SERI MOHD NAJIB TUN RAZAK

Dear Prime Minister Najib,

This is my second open letter to you; my first, about two years ago - you may or may not recall - was about the proposed coal-fired power plant in Sabah.

This letter is about your 'projek panda' (my pet name for it) that is going to cost us approximately RM50,000,000 (loan of 2 pandas + facilities + food + maintenance) and improve our relationship with China.  Your rationale sounds dubious to me, but I am going to set my judgments aside and instead do my best to understand your leadership.

PKR’s Peter Mayau killed in chopper crash

By Joseph Tawie of FMT

Sarawak PKR chairman Baru Bian described his deputy,
the late Peter Ato Mayau, as a principled man who
believed in the struggle for justice.

KUCHING: Sarawak PKR  lost one of its leaders. Peter Ato  Anak Mayau in a helicopter crash which occurred yesterday morning at the mouth of Sg. Lingga, Sri Aman.

His body was recovered earlier this afternoon not far from the incident.

Siti Kuzaimah Annuar (surveyor) and Henry Lay (engineer) were also killed in the crash.

The pilot of the helicopter Reco Steger, 35, a german, survived the crash.

The helicopter is owned by local businessman Sng Chee Hua.

They were on their way to Nanga Merit, Kapit to inspect a project when the incident occurred.

Don’t believe my brother, pleads Pairin

Under pressure, PBS president Pairin Kitingan swears that
he "never stopped fighting" for Sabahans' future
including championing "Article 20 of the
Malaysia Agreement and oil royalties."

KOTA KINABALU:  Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan under heavy pressure from his Umno-Barisan Nasional bosses to reel-in his younger and politically ‘wayward’ brother Jeffrey, called him a  ‘liar’ and lumped him together with other ‘lying opposition leaders’.

Pairin, who is president of Parti Bersatu Sabah, said his party had “never stopped fighting” for the people.

“”PBS never stopped fighting for the people’s future including Article 20 of Malaysia Agreement and oil royalties…,” he said alluding to Jeffrey’s consistent claim that the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, of which PBS is a member, had  failed to uphold the terms of the 1963 agreement.

Is There a God?

Does God exist? Here are six straight-forward reasons to believe that God is really there.

By Marilyn Adamson

Just once wouldn't you love for someone to simply show you the evidence for God's existence? No arm-twisting. No statements of, "You just have to believe." Well, here is an attempt to candidly offer some of the reasons which suggest that God exists.

But first consider this. If a person opposes even the possibility of there being a God, then any evidence can be rationalized or explained away. It is like if someone refuses to believe that people have walked on the moon, then no amount of information is going to change their thinking. Photographs of astronauts walking on the moon, interviews with the astronauts, moon rocks...all the evidence would be worthless, because the person has already concluded that people cannot go to the moon.

BN will win big in Sabah

By Luke Rintod of FMT

KOTA KINABALU: Despite the political mayhem in Sabah, it is possible that Barisan Nasional (BN) will again win big in the state in the coming general election.

In fact, BN could win all 25 parliamentary seats and all the 60 state assembly seats as well as the sole MP seat in Labuan.

Mind you, in the last general election in 2008, Sabah BN lost only two seats – the Kota Kinabalu parliamentary seat and the state seat in Sri Tanjung .

Both seats went to DAP. This time though, it is possible that DAP will lose both seats to BN.

STAR's Direction for Sabah Crystal Clear - Dr. Jeffrey

STAR Sabah’s direction is crystal clear and the clearest amongst all the parties in Sabah.  STAR Sabah seeks the restoration of Sabah as 1 of 3 equal partners in Malaysia and its struggle is made clear with the Borneo Agenda and its 7 core demands” said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief, in response to Lajim’s statement published in the Daily Express yesterday.

Unlike the recent remarks by a Sabah Umno leader, Sabah and Sarawak are not equal to the States in Peninsular and, more importantly, Sabah and Sarawak did not join Malaysia as the 12th and 13th States.

‘Sabah Muslims are Umno Malay wannabes’

Sabahans have already 'lost' five territories – Labuan,
Tawau, Lahad Datu, Sandakan and Kinabatangan – to the
foreigners whose population exceeds the locals.

By Raymond Tombung of FMT

KOTA KINABALU: Umno leaders in Sabah are working openly to take away whatever little rights Sabahans have left, State Reform Party (STAR) Sabah deputy chairman Awang Ahmad Sah alleged today.

“It is shocking to see them working very hard to deny and further erode the rights of Sabahans.

“They don’t care what happen to us as long as Umno stays in power,” he said, adding that Muslims in Sabah who are not Malays are “trying very hard to be more Malay” than the real Malays from Peninsular Malaysia.

Star Kuamut leader in a thick of action to help accident victims

Man of action and compassion...

Recently a Star state committee member from Kuamut, James Ait, stumbled upon an accident involving a motorcycle and a four-wheel drive vehicle at the border of Beluran and Kinabatangan parliamentary areas. He took the lead in helping the victims and even went to hospital with them to help...

According to James, it is high time that Tongod should have its own police station and not be left depending on a far-away Bukit Garam police station deep in Kinabatangan.

QEH is 158 days delayed, please explain

By Dr Felix Chong of State Reform Party (Star)

KOTA KINABALU : I call upon the authorities concerned to explain why the new twin-tower blocks of Queen Elizabeth II Hospital are further delayed despite the government's earlier and constant pledge it would be completed on time.

It is now learned that the twin-tower is already 158 days behind schedule and according to a reliable source works now seem to be getting even slower with the unfavourable weather conditions.