
This piece by Dennis Wong of NST should have been retitled “In darkness since independent, BN forced Baram folks to endure few more years without electricity.”
Living in the dark after sunset is nothing new for the villagers here. They have been doing so for generations and have become accustomed to it.
Only a handful of [...]

Most of the time we disagree with the wasteful, corrupt BN government – but this is something we should support.
According to The Star, the Uniform Building By-Laws may be amended to make it a must for developers to provide broadband facilities in residential and commercial areas.
The Deputy Prime Minister said the facility [...]

Nobel Laurette Prof. Paul Krugman of Princeton University says Mahathir did some very ugly things in his personal politics — but his economic instincts were sound.
European now ponder, if Malaysia’s former premier [pdf] Dr Mahathir’s unorthodox economic prescription could help fixed Euro ailing economies?
EU have yet to come out with a [...]

The last member of a unique tribe has died on India’s Andaman Islands.
Boa Sr, who died last week aged around 85, was the last speaker of ‘Bo’, one of the ten Great Andamanese languages. The Bo are thought to have lived in the Andaman Islands for as much as 65,000 years, making them the descendants [...]

Wong Ho Leng thrown a challenge to SUPP – Wong Soon Koh to a public debate on the renaming of UCS to Laila Taib College yesterday and other pertinent issues. Specifically he has these 10 questions to ask SUPP.
1. Leaders of SUPP Sibu branch said that the United College of Sarawak (UCS) was a [...]
March 3, 2010 | |
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Awang Tengah lately has been switching his mode from land grabber to sympathizer. He also seem to have forgotten what he said at Council Negri few years ago that “All untitled lands including NCR lands belong to the Government.”
Then he warned Penghulus and Tuai Rumah not to endorse any NCR land claim by [...]
March 3, 2010 | |
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Bernama reports:
Talk of Taib preparing to pass the baton picked up momentum in April last year after his wife, Puan Sri Laila Taib, his pillar of support during his political career, passed away.
Thus, the focus of interest as successor is now on the senior leaders — deputy president I Tan Sri Dr Alfred Jabu, [...]

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has announced a special allocation of RM25 million for three projects to improve living condition in four resettlement schemes in the Rajang Security Command (Rascom) area.
The Prime Minister said the allocation included a subsidy of RM8 million to repair 1,422 units of longhouses in the Nanga Jagaw, Nanga Ngungun, Nanga [...]
February 24, 2010 | |
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