STAR Sabah: Bumburing Needs to be Clear on Sabah’s Status

STAR's Sabah Information Chief, Edward Linggu

“STAR Sabah welcomes Datuk Seri Panglima Wilfred Bumburing’s decision to resign as Tuaran Barisan Nasional chief and hopes that he will eventually leave the BN and take pro-active action to take on BN and fight for Sabah’s rights” stated Edward Linggu, Star Sabah Information Chief in a press statement released today.

We hope that Bumburing is sincere in his actions in leaving the BN and his departure is not due to other reasons as rumoured that he is leaving because he is not expected to be re-nominated to defend his Tuaran seat.  We also trust that he will also leave behind all his government posts to show his sincerity as the people will view with suspicion if he leaves one leg still inside the BN state government.

CAPS sokong kenyataan Wong Khen Thau hal kabotaj

KOTA KINABALU : CAPS menyokong penuh saranan Presiden Persatuan Pengilang-Pengilang Sabah (FSM) supaya kerajaan Persekutuan lebih serius dalam mengepalai liberalisasi penuh dasar kabotaj dalam menangani kos tinggi barangan di Malaysia Timur.

Pendedahan Datuk Wong Khen Thau mengenai mesyuarat di Kuching berkenaan kabotaj yang mana kenyataan para pegawai Kementerian Pengangkutan Persekutuan menunjukkan sama ada pusat tidak serius atau mereka di bawah kawalan para pemonopoli perkapalan.

‘We are ready for Putrajaya’

By Luke Rintod of FMT

KOTA BELUD: Pakatan Rakyat is ready to take over the federal government from the long-ruling and corrupt-ridden Barisan Nasional. 

Speaking to some 300 locals at a Chinese school hall here last weekend, DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang said even BN leaders know it and they are now afraid of losing power.

“BN is now afraid of us, they dare not dissolve Parliament. They are really afraid of Pakatan… they dare not hold simultaneous ceramah [to compete] with us now.

NASA telescope snaps most detailed photos of the Sun ever taken

By Tecca of Today in Tech

Short-lived mission provides an astounding new perspective on our life-giving star.
We've always been warned never to look directly at the sun, but on July 11 a team of scientists from NASA did exactly that. They were using a specialized telescope called the High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C for short) and the resulting photos are nothing short of spectacular.
The Hi-C telescope was launched onboard a 58-foot-tall rocket which carried it along a sub-orbital trajectory for only 10 minutes.
For five of those minutes, a camera mounted inside the telescope snapped 165 pictures of an area on the Sun that scientists had picked out nearly a month prior.

Pembaca berita tertekan dikaitkan dengan RosmahSepanjang karier saya sebagai pembaca berita saya memang tak pernah dapat jumpa pun dengan Rosmah, kata Farid Ismeth Emir.

Sepanjang karier saya sebagai pembaca berita saya memang tak
pernah dapat jumpa pun dengan Rosmah, kata Farid Ismeth Emir.

PETALING JAYA: Pembaca berita Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) Farid Ismeth Emir menafikan mempunyai sebarang hubungan dengan isteri Perdana Menteri Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.

Beliau berkata, dirinya tidak pernah mengenali mahupun bercakap dengan Rosmah secara peribadi sehingga naik muak dengan dakwaan tersebut walaupun beberapa kali cuba menafikannya.

“Sepanjang karier saya sebagai pembaca berita saya memang tak pernah dapat jumpa pun dengan Rosmah,” katanya semasa ditemubual pengacara RTM Zamzarina Zambri.

Temubual kira-kira 7 minit itu dirakamkan Zamzarina dan dimuat naik ke dalam blog peribadinya http://zamzarinazambri.blogspot.com.

Pairin is now desperate

PENAMPANG: PBS president Joseph Pairin Kitingan is easily agitated these days and his “desperation” is showing itself, said his long-time friend and a former party associate.

Fredoline Edwin Lojingki, 71, believes that Pairin, 72, is worried that he and his party might lose in the coming general election.

He said Pairin’s recent labelling of his younger brother Jeffrey as liar was a “manifestation of his desperation” to cling to a fast disappearing aura”, especially with the younger generation of Sabahans.

Jeffrey helms the surging State Reform Party (STAR) whose backbone supporters are Sabahans who are under 40. The party claims it has 175,000 members and has made significant inroads into Kadazandusun and Murut (KDM) areas which were once PBS and Upko strongholds. Both PBS and Upko are Barisan Nasional allies.

Bugis bid for Bumi status opens ‘Pandora’s Box’

By Joe Fernandez

The Bugis call in Sabah in recent days for members of the community to be recognised as Bumiputera just as in Peninsular Malaysia has opened a new debate about an old problem, that is, how to extend the Bumiputera (son of the soil) umbrella term to as many Malaysians as possible in Sabah and elsewhere who are not Orang Asal (native).

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has been cited by wannabe Bumiputera among the Bugis in Sabah as the most famous member of their community who can still trace his roots to Sulawesi in Indonesia.

West Malaysian politics toying with Sabah

It’s common knowledge that Shafie dreams of becoming Sabah’s next chief minister and that Lajim who holds sway over westcoast Muslim in Sabah is an important ally for him. Rumours of Lajim quitting Umno began last year and was as quickly “settled” when another speculation broke that Shafie, who is Rural Development Minister, had appeased Lajim with a RM150 million road project.  

WIKISABAH

It’s finally arrived, the official announcement that Sabah Barisan Nasional MPs Lajim Ukin and Wilfred Bumburing have quit the coalition.

Lajim, who announced his withdrawal in front of 500 people at Kampung Bukit Kallam on July 18, said: “I will sacrifice my RM20,000 monthly pay and perks as a minister for my struggle to uphold Sabah’s rights and fight corruption and cronyism.”

Buy the election, not by-election

Dr Jeffrey is quite upset that Anwar is currently engaged in negotiations with a few Barisan Nasional leaders about the possibility of them jumping after the next general election. This would mean the opposition would have to ‘give way’ to these people and allow them to win the elections. That would be one issue. The second would be: what if after they win they change their minds and decide not to jump after all because Barisan Nasional has counter-offered a higher price?

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

The Federal Hotel in Kuala Lumpur was the first international-class hotel to be built in Malaysia -- then called the Federation of Malaya. It was, in fact, built purposely for the Merdeka (Independence) celebrations and opened for business just three days before Merdeka of 31st August 1957. 

It was said that Low Yat, a rags-to-riches junk dealer turned millionaire, built the hotel at the request of the First Prime Minister of independent Malaya, Tunku Abdul Rahman. Stories were told about how Yow Yat used to cycle around Kuala Lumpur collecting old bottles, and thereafter made his millions from his humble beginnings. 

An independent report by Morgan Stanley economist on corrupt Malaysia

A Morgan Stanley economist estimated Malaysia lost US$100 billions, that is equivalent to RM300 billions (not millions) to corruption. Time Magazine quoted this economist at Morgan Stanley in Singapore as saying that the country might have lost as much as US$100 billion since the early 1980s or the period since Mahathir came to power. FYI, RM300 billion = 300,000, 000 million. A  stupendous sum that is at the same time, mind-numbing.

 

A. The staggering losses accumulated over the years since Mahathir's era till now are as follows: Perwaja RM10 billion. Forex fiasco in early 90s RM30 billion. mid-80s Maminco scandal RM1.6 billion. Incessant Bank Bumiputra Scandals RM10 billion. STAR-LRT bailout RM3.256

billion. RM38.5 billion compensation to UMNO-linked highway companies. KL City-wide Putra transport system RM4.486 billion. PKFZ 12 billion. Bank Islam RM700 million. MV Agusta & Proton RM 348 million. Wang ehsan, oil royalty for Terengganu RM7.4 billion. Even KLCC Twin Towers Philharmonic Orchestra swallowed a total of RM500 million. Bailouts of Malaysia Airline