Dominique Ng on his 10 reasons for contesting as Independent in Padungan

By Dominique Ng Kim Ho

KUCHING:

1. I AM THE INCUMBENT YB AND I AM DUTY BOUND TO DEFEND THE PADUNGAN SEAT. I HAVE SOLEMNLY VOWED TO SERVE AND I WILL NOT SHIRK MY DUTIES OR RUN AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE OF PADUNGAN.

Big aftershock rattles Japan disaster zone

SENDAI: A powerful aftershock rocked Japan’s tsunami disaster zone, killing at least three and triggering new concerns over nuclear power plants in a region still grappling with an atomic emergency.

Electricity was cut across a huge area of northern Japan, forcing cooling systems at three nuclear plants to switch to emergency power and plunging more than 3.3 million households into darkness late last night.

Go home and vote, Sarawakians urged

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah DAP has urged Sarawakians living and working in Sabah to make an effort to return to their respective constituencies and vote for DAP candidates during this coming Sarawak state election.

7.4-magnitude quake hits Japan, local tsunami alert

TOKYO: A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Japan late today, seismologists said, prompting Japanese authorities to issue a localised tsunami alert.

The quake, which hit at 11.32pm local time, had a magnitude of 7.4, according to the US Geological Survey, which said it struck 66 kilometres (40 miles) east of Sendai.

Lapan pegawai imigresen diseret ke mahkamah

SHAH ALAM: Seramai lapan pegawai dari Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia dihadapkan ke Mahkamah Sesyen atas dakwaan rasuah berhubung urusan kemasukan warganegara Indonesia ke Malaysia.

Taib: Two-thirds within my hand

Don't worry Najib, two-thirds within my hand already.

KANOWIT: Two-thirds majority is still very much within the grasp of the Barisan Nasional (BN) in the coming 10th Sarawak state polls, said Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud.

He said this was despite the fact that this election was the most keenly contested one with a total of 213 candidates including 16 who are women.

“I am a bit surprised and puzzled as well with the big number of candidates,” Taib told reporters after a “meet-the-people” session at Rh.Jelani anak Daud, a 66-door longhouse in Nanga Lesih near here today.

Greenhorn in a hot seat

Chiew, at 27, is the youngest DAP candidate in
the election.

In late December last year, Christina Chiew’s tenancy agreement expired and she had to move in with a friend while waiting for her new home to be ready. For two months, she lived in Batu Kawah, a small town about an hour’s drive from Kuching.

There she learnt that the residents either bought electrical poles with their own money or went without electricity. She rolled up her pants leg during bouts of torrential rain when floodwater would rise to alarming levels within an hour. And she witnessed the life of hardship that farmers and vegetable sellers lead.

50,000 Sabahans want RCI on illegals

Sabah opposition party SAPP is bent on convincing NGOs and political groups across the divide to back calls for Royal Commission of Inquiry on illegals

 
KOTA KINABALU, April 6, 2011: Some 50,000 Malaysian citizens in Sabah have signed a petition demanding that the federal government set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in the state.

Oleh Raymond Tombung

PITAS: Masyarakat Tombonuo masih  ketinggalan  dan  perlu lebih banyak berusaha dan mendapat bantuan  terutama daripada pihak kerajaan  untuk maju kehadapan supaya layak untuk duduk sama rendah berdiri sama tinggi dengan kaum-kaum  atau  masyarakat lain di negeri Sabah.

Tombonuos still lagging, needs to work harder to progress: Akian

By Raymond Tombung

KOTA KINABALU: The Tombonuo people of Sabah are still backward and needs to strive harder and to receive more help from the government, to enable them to move forward in order to catch up with the other communities.