SAPP wants clarification on special fund to MPs and ADUNs

KOTA BELUD : Starting last year the Federal Government allocated a special fund called "touch point" or "sentuhan kasih" of a slightly more than RM1 million for each of the Barisan Nasional MP, including those in Sabah.

This fund according the record went straight into the bank accounts of these MPs and it was entirely up to them to spend it as long as it is helping the people including in their emergency needs like during flooding or to help the poor replace the broken rooftop of their houses.

Does Rosmah deserve the Curtin award?

It must be sad for the prime minister's wife, Rosmah Mansor, that for receiving an honorary doctorate from a foreign university, she got so much flak.The university that awarded it, Curtin University of Western Australia, was hit with brickbats too, judging by the strongly-worded postings on its Facebook page after the award was announced. Curtin was probably astonished by the reception.

As one commentor wrote:"Curtin dear, you didn't anticipate these at all, did you?"

Jeffrey reply to Pairin Statement

Dr Jeffrey G. Kitingan

My brother tells only half
of the truths

I called this Press Conference in response to what my brother, Tan Sri Pairin, was quoted as having said in Keningau yesterday and which appeared in the front page of the Daily Express today.

Firstly, I need to categorically state that what was said by my brother are all lies and half-truths. Secondly, when he refer to “them” he shows his desperation to cling to power and his fear of losing power.

Thirdly, I have said it before and I say it again that this elections has nothing to do with family matters.

He is my elder brother and I have nothing against him and I love him as any brother would do but I love the people and this country more.

Kerajaan mesti ikhlas satu-padukan rakyat

Oleh Raymond Tombung

Dalam satu ceramah, A Plea for Unity (Satu Gesaan untuk Perpaduan) di Kuala Lumpur beberapa hari yang lalu Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah (Ku Li), telah mengkritik pendirian Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Hussin yang pernah berkata dia terlebih dahulu adalah seorang Melayu dan kemudian barulah seorang Malaysia (I am a Malay first and a Malaysian second).

Katanya, ini adalah satu pendirian yang merupakan tamparan kepada hasrat murni yang terkandung dalam dasar 1Malaysia yang sedang giat dipromosikan oleh Perdana Menteri. Ku Li menyatakan ini untuk menyuarakan kerisauannya tentang masalah perpaduan antara kaum yang menjadi semakin retak di Malaysia, dan sedih sekali DPM sendiri mementingkan kemelayuannya lebih dari perpaduan rakyat Malaysia.

You can’t make poverty disappear by saying it isn’t there

By Sindin Ranggangon

Sindin Ranggangon,
Tuaran PKR Information Chief

The announcement by the Prime Minister that Sabah is no longer the poorest state gives us no comfort at all. It doesn’t make sense that all of a sudden poverty has been reduced after the situation has been around for decades. In a single visit by the PM, which was supposed to be “the last visit to Sabah before the general election,” poor households have gone down from 30,000 to 7,000. And we are not told when this reduction happened, and what has caused it to happen. If there was a sudden economic miracle to make poverty disappear in 23,000 households, how come we never heard about it?

I guess we can’t really blame the PM for having to come up with this kind of stunt. If the state Umno/BN couldn’t solve the poverty problem then the only way to go about is to deny the poverty and at least give some comfort to the people. At least the BN leaders will now have some capital to use to deny the opposition’s propaganda that Sabah, according to the World Bank, is the poorest state, and that 40 percent of all poor people in Malaysia are in Sabah!