. Sarawak Report
World’s most incompetent company! – SALCRA HQ
Judging from his performance as Chairman of Salcra, it would be unwise to hire Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu to run a fruit stall, let alone place the livelihoods of tens of thousands of families under his control.
The man has clearly squandered hundreds of millions of ringgit. Yet, as he refuses to provide even the most basic standards of accountability, no one has a clue where all that money has gone ! (more…)
FMT Staff
Aiming to stoke a revival amongst Dayak, Snap’s battlecry is irking rival Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party.
The old Iban war cry ‘Agi Idup Agi Ngelaban’ which literally means “as long as there is life, there is fight” may have been good in the old days but can it hold a candle in this new world?
Well, Barisan Nasional coalition partner Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) thinks not. (more…)
Patrick Lee
A day after a minister defends such financial aid, an anti-graft watchdog says giving cash and things like sewing machines is clearly an act of corruption.
Any attempt to entice voters, with cash and goodies, is a form of corruption, said Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) today.
However, its president Paul Low stressed that election promises were considered “borderline” cases.
“There have been a lot of arguments on vote buying, enticing voters with money and sewing machines. We believe that this is corrupt practice. (more…)
Maclean Patrick
We should not investigate facts by the light of arguments, but arguments by the light of facts. – Myson of ChanaeNever before has a singular event throw up so much dirt and fodder. The coming Sarawak election has produced enough political misadventures to give any right-minded thinkers a headache. (more…)
Debra Chong
The importer said the stamped and serialised bibles, which it collected yesterday, cannot be sold and will instead be preserved as museum pieces and a reminder to future generations of Malaysian Christians of what it maintains was a deliberate and unjustified government move to deface their holy book. (more…)
- Bernama
Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud will be meeting Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to submit the list of names for the Sarawak polls.
About 25% of Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) candidates in the April 16 state election will be new faces, Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud said today.
Taib, who is PBB president, said he would be meeting Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak with a list of candidates from all four BN component parties in the state. (more…)
. Sarawak Report
“Significant prosperity”, according to the State Secretary – on RM 15 a day?
BN bloggers have been boasting that the State Secretary, Mohamid Morshidi bin Abdul Ghani, got a letter into the UK’s Sunday Times newspaper claiming “the rainforest is not devastated” and that ”logging licences are awarded after due process and are not in the personal gift of the Chief Minister”.
However, we can reveal Ghani’s own family are among the state’s top land-grabbers! Not only that, they have been charged ridiculously preferential rates for the vast tracts of land, which they have been given (by the Chief Minister)! (more…)
. Sarawak Report
Losing his memory and forgetting his businesses?
Taib Mahmud has been forced onto the defensive throughout the first first week of his election campaign, as he has fought to shake off allegations of landgrabs, corruption, nepotism and the siphoning out Sarawak’s wealth into foreign banks, businesses and property companies.
His advisers had insisted that he face up and address these issues to restore his credibility with outraged voters. A strategy was devised with a series of staged video interviews answering pre-prepared questions by friendly reporters (including one hired by a foreign PR company). The edited answers were then put onto Taib’s flock of new websites in an attempt to win back ground in the ‘cyber-war’
mongabay.com
Google Earth reveals stark contrast between Sarawak’s damaged forests and those in neighboring Borneo states
Logging roads and damaged forest in Sarawak compared with the healthy forest of Brunei. Photo courtesy of Google Earth.
Images from Google Earth show a sharp contract between forest cover in Sarawak, a state in Malaysian Borneo, and the neighboring countries of Brunei and Indonesia at a time when Sarawak’s Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud is claiming that 70 percent of Sarawak’s forest cover is intact.
Pak Bui
At the risk of adding to the miniscule number of hits on www.sarawakreports.org, the copycat website run by Taib’s groupies, I recommend a short visit to the site. It will make you laugh, at a time when nasty, low-class scams like the blue films of an Anwar impersonator are in circulation.
Taib’s own low-class scam, ‘Sarawak Reports’, must be another of those ‘secret weapons’ that George Chan alluded to. It is a tawdry ‘ciplak’ or fake of the original whistleblower website Sarawak Report. www.sarawakreport.org Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but there does not appear to be anything sincere about Taib’s cyberspin. (more…)
Taib’s power-base
Many have questioned in our comments why Taib’s political colleagues allow his corruption to continue?
Our researches through the land registry are starting to provide the answer. Most of his political cronies, who occupy the top ministerial jobs, have themselves been major benefactors of the Chief Minister’s largess over state lands. (more…)
The warning to the government is clear: If our demands are ignored, it could have serious repercussion in the next general election.
The Coalition of Malaysian Christians (COMC) today urged the government to apologise to the Christians in the country over the recent episode of impounding and stamping of 35,100 Bahasa Malaysia bibles.
The coalition said the government’s action was a gross travesty of religious freedom as enshrined in the federal constitution. (more…)
Joseph Tawie
Despite an angry rebuke from DAP yesterday following a failed negotiation with deputy PKR president Azmin Ali, lawyer Baru Bian is confident that all will be well.
Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian has denied that negotiations over overlapping seats with DAP had collapsed.
Voicing his “one hundred percent confidence”, he said negotiation between PKR and DAP would be resolved amicably. (more…)
Chief Minister Taib Mahmud is urging rural Sarawak to rally behind the BN in the upcoming polls because Pakatan Rakyat is ‘already in disarray’.
KUCHING: Both DAP and Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud seem oddly enough to share a common view that the Pakatan Rakyat coalition has no chance of forming the next Sarawak government.
According to Taib, the opposition was in disarray and squabbling over seats. (more…)
. Sarawak Report
Poor Ibrahim? He seems wealthy enough!
With just days to go before the election the Mahmud family are still coining in money from land handed to them by the Chief Minister.
On February 18th, the Malaysia Stock Exchange announced a RM 21 million purchase of 80% of a company that was been given a stake in a 5,000 hectare plantation in the Baram region by Taib Mahmud. Our researches have shown that the lion’s share of that cash payment went to his own brother Ibrahim Mahmud! (more…)
Pak Bui
Taib is not the main election issue. Corruption is the enemy of Sarawakians. Corruption by BN, not Taib alone, has made Sarawakians poor.
Najib and Taib are playing a coy game of hide-and-seek with Sarawak’s voters. After they met to discuss the dissolution of the state assembly, both Najib and Taib dropped a little hint that Taib may step down after the election.
But most urban Sarawakians do not believe their cheap charade. Taib has promised to step down on countless occasions, and has lied every single time. (more…)
. Sarawak Report
Taib’s residence in Demak Jaya – his sister and son Abu Bekir have houses next door
At a time when people are struggling to cope with the rising electricity costs, Sarawak Report has established that the Chief Minister thieves electricity to keep down his own bills !
This astonishing information came to us from senior insiders, who are in a good position to know what is happening in Taib’s household. We have subsequently obtained corroborative evidence from the chief technician in charge of maintenance at his grand residence at Demak Jaya. (more…)
Sim Kwang Yang
Finally, the 10th general state election in Sarawak has arrived, with the polling date fixed on April 16, 2011.
The question to ask is: can we expect a political tsunami, in which the long established Barisan Nasional will suffer its worst ever bashing at the hands of the opposition parties?
In the past few months, we have seen dramatic and unexpected changes in the Arab world. (more…)
Kuek Ser Kuang Keng
Less than a month to go for the 10th Sarawak state polls, the nation’s longest-serving chief minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, has launched a cyber campaign to fend off various allegations against him, including his family’s global business empire.
In one of the video interviews uploaded onto the popular video sharing portal Youtube, Taib explained that his daughter Jamilah’s business was initially funded by his gratuity as a federal minister, which his daughter through her business acumen expanded into a global empire. (more…)
MoCS
There is no joy in the air among Sarawakians as Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud celebrates his 30th anniversary as Sarawak’s chief executive today.
“I doubt the people of Sarawak are in the mood to celebrate with their chief minister although Taib has achieved the historic milestone as the country’s longest serving CM,” said Movement For Change, Sarawak leader Francis Paul Siah.
“Taib’s legacy is one of blatant abuse of power. To Sarawakians and Malaysians, he will be remembered as one of the nation’s most corrupt political leaders who perpetuated money politics and the politics of patronage, nepotism and despotism. He is also the grandmaster of the politics of fear and intimidation,” he said. (more…)
Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle
The Pakatan Rakyat national leadership will meet on Monday to help finalize seat allocations in Sarawak, where temperatures are rising and wild allegations hurled around as component parties try their best to swing the most “winnable” seats, egged on by arch rival BN which is only too happy to stir the flames higher.
But time is running out and the Pakatan is already a step behind. BN will be announcing their candidates on Saturday. Nomination day is on April 6 and balloting on April 16. (more…)
Of special interest is the possible line-up of Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), the backbone of the state BN.
Chief Minister and PBB president Abdul Taib Mahmud has said that about a quarter of the candidates for the 35 seats allocated to the party would be new.
Party sources said that 10 to 12 new faces were likely be fielded, most of them in constituencies which PBB won with a small majority in the last state election. (more…)
FMT Staff
SNAP, battling allegations of secretly bedding with BN, said it is not a ‘genuine’ partner in Pakatan Rakyat
Sarawak National Party (Snap) has denied having a “secret” arrangement with the federal-level Barisan Nasional (BN).
Describing the accusation as a “fabrication of the worst order”, Snap secretary-general Stanley Jugol said there was “never” any meeting between Snap leaders and Umno information chief Ahmad Maslan. (more…)
Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud said today that he never benefitted financially from the Native Estate, which he introduced to develop bumiputera land in the state.
He said there was no basis for the allegations of certain quarters that he was trying to seize land from the people with the concept, which was really to raise the living standard of the owners.
“I introduced Native Estate, but my salary stayed the same. There was no increase because there was no commission,” he said. (more…)
Tashny Sukumaran
MCLM is distressed by reports of Snap being funded by pro-BN parties.
VIDEO INSIDE Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) today announced that it was severing ties with Sarawak National Party (Snap) due to the latter’s alleged engagement in dubious practices.
MCLM president Haris Ibrahim explained that the objective of the alliance was to end the plight of marginalised Sarawakians by ending Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s 30-year reign, and to establish a pro-rakyat federal government. (more…)
FMT Staff
There is no reason for us, the government, to seize people’s land, adds the CM.
The opposition parties in Sarawak are incapable of working together as is seen in their ongoing fight over seats for the state election, said Chief Minister and state BN chief Abdul Taib Mahmud today.
He said that the tussle for seats between the state opposition parties is an indication that they are incapable of working for the people. (more…)
Stephen Tiong
“Yes, I am 100 per cent confident,” he told reporters today when commenting on reports that the DAP-PKR negotiations on overlapping claims for seats to contest had broken down.
“So, you just wait for the leaderships of the two parties to announce the decision by March 29,” he told a press conference. (more…)
The current hot news is the ongoing seat negotiations between DAP and PKR and how it has broken down. The story is that DAP wants 18 seats, mainly Chinese-majority and that PKR wants to reduce it to 13 by demanding 5 of their seats.
It will be instructive to look at the situation during the 2006 Sarawak State Elections.
Of the 5 seats in dispute (N9 Padungan, N13 Batu Kawah, N25 Balai Ringin, N63 Piasau and N65 Senadin) 4 were contested by PKR and 1 by SNAP (N25 Balai Ringin). (more…)
Maclean Patrick
The moves that the people in Sarawak make on the political chessboard are crucial as the electoral battle nears.
It took the death of a young Tunisian graduate, Mohamed Bouazizi, a fruit seller; to ignite the call for change in the Middle East. Demonstrations against high unemployment, food inflation, corruption, lack of freedom of speech, lack of political freedom and poor living conditions followed suit which led to the ousting of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Jan 14, 2011. (more…)
. Sarawak Report
Taib’s advisors would do well to rein in their boss’s sudden enthusiasm for media interviews. He is not doing well at all!
At the start of the week, he contradicted his son-in-law, Hisham (Sean) Murray’s denials that he was involved in the family’s international property empire, by admitting he had started it with his own money. Now he has implied that his cousin Hamid Sepawi has been misleading the authorities in his applications for Planted Forest Licences! (more…)
Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle
The Pakatan Rakyat national leadership will meet on Monday to help finalize seat allocations in Sarawak, where temperatures are rising and wild allegations hurled around as component parties try their best to swing the most “winnable” seats, egged on by arch rival BN which is only too happy to stir the flames higher.
But time is running out and the Pakatan is already a step behind. BN will be announcing their candidates on Saturday. Nomination day is on April 6 and balloting on April 16.
So what exactly is going on in the Land of the Hornbills? (more…)
Kuek Ser Kuang Keng
With the 10th Sarawak state election set for April 16, time is ticking for Supp, the second largest party in the state’s ruling coalition, to fight for its survival in probably the toughest election since its formation in 1959.
In the 2006 state election, the Chinese-dominated party suffered its worst electoral hammering, losing eight of 19 seats it contested.
The casualties included two assistant ministers and a mayor. The May 20 polling day was described as one of the darkest days of its 46-year history by its president George Chan then. (more…)
Joseph Tawie
Independent Layar constituency candidate Tedewin Ngumbang is calling for a one-to-one fight with Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu Numpang
Former Parti Rakyat (PRS) Sarawak deputy information chief, Tedewin Ngumbang, has called for an independent party to assess the popularity of the three opposition candidates who are poised to take on Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu Numpang in his Layar constituency.
Ngumbang, who has declared his candidacy, will be facing PKR’s Stanny Embat and Sarawak Nasional Party’s (SNAP) Joe Unggang. (more…)
Tashny Sukumaran
According to PRS’ Joseph Salang, large tracts of land are being given or leased out as part of development strategies.
Deputy Information, Communication and Culture Minister Joseph Salang has denied that there were cases of land grabbing in Sarawak.
“There are large tracts of land being given or leased out as part of development strategies. It is land that has been alienated for this purpose, not grabbed. (more…)
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