Seeking review of Sabah’s status

A grassroots nationalist movement has submitted a 11-point
memorandum to Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman.

KOTA KINABALU: After undergoing profound social and economic changes over the past 48 years, Sabah is entering unknown territory as it marks Malaysia’s birthday today.

Sept 16 may go down as the date when Sabah gave birth to a modern nationalist movement to cope with growing pains and perceived injustices ever since it signed the Malaysia Agreement in 1963.

A nationalist movement called “Pergerakan Sabah Tanah Air Kita” (Our Nation Sabah Movement) has slowly gathered quiet momentum and is seeking a review of the status of Sabah within Malaysia.

The ‘unofficial history’ of our Independence

COMMENT More than 50 years after Independence, Malaysians are still frequently reminded by Umno leaders of the so-called ‘Social Contract’ that was supposed to have been agreed upon by “the three races” whenever the non-bumiputeras demand civil liberties and the end to discrimination.

Najib: GST kemungkinan selepas PRU-13

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak hari ini berkata bahawa kerajaan sedang meninjau kemungkinan untuk melaksanakan cukai barangan dan perkhidmatan (GST) selepas pilihan raya umum akan datang.

Bercakap kepada pemberita selepas majlis makan malam Persidangan Antarabangsa CEO Forbes di Kuala Lumpur hari ini, Najib berkata Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri telah diminta untuk memastikan segala sistem sudah bersiap-sedia. Katanya, isu sekarang ialah masa yang sesuai bagi pelaksanaan berkenaan.

Anak tikam ibu dan bapa hingga mati

Sepasang suami isteri mati ditikam oleh anak lelaki mereka di sebuah rumah di Batu 1, Jalan Utara dekat Sandakan, malam semalam.

Dalam kejadian 10.45 malam itu, lelaki berkenaan yang berusia 31 tahun turut menikam kakaknya.

Ketua Polis Daerah Sandakan, ACP Rowell Marong, berkata mangsa dikenali sebagai Yew Hiap Foh, 70, dan isterinya Chu Ching Moi, 60, dan kedua-dua mereka mati di tempat kejadian akibat tikaman di dada.

What happened to MACC probe on Taib?

Sarawak opposition believes that Taib Mahmud must clear his
name in view of the latest German investigation into his
family-linked business dealings.

KUCHING: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) must release immediately details of its investigation into Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s alleged abuse of power and corruption.


The call comes on the heels of reports that the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has launched investigations into Deutsche Bank on account of its business relations with Taib’s family.

Maklumat dakwaan rasuah Gani Patail akan disiasat SPRM

PUTRAJAYA: Maklumat berhubung dakwaan mengaitkan Peguam Negara Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail yang disogok bekas Timbalan Pengerusi Eksekutif Ho Hup Bhd,Datuk Vincent Lye, akan disiasat oleh Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM).

Namun menurut Menteri diJabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Nazri Aziz di bawah Seksyen 29(4) Akta SPRM, maklumat mengenai hal itu tidak perlu didedahkan kepada umum.

‘Bukti dipalsukan pada bicara kes rasuah Anwar’

Hukuman kerana salah guna kuasa ke atas Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim pada 1999 adalah silap kerana pihak pendakwaan telah memalsukan bukti dan membuat penipuan melalui tindakan pegawai penyiasat ketika itu, Tan Sri Musa Hassan dan pendakwa raya ketika itu Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail.

Dakwaan itu dibuat melalui sepucuk surat terbuka, baru yang dihantar kepada Ketua Polis Negara Tan Sri Ismail Omar, hari ini, oleh bekas Ketua Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah Kuala Lumpur Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim.

Treachery of the Highest kind???

A recent diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks has a rather ominous entry that pinpoints the then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad as being the perpetrator of a citizenship-for-votes scam, with the alleged direct involvement of the then Election Commission chief.

The cable stated: “During their discussion, Hussin claimed that (former EC head) Rashid admitted his direct involvement in UMNO's shadowy 1990s push to assume political control of the East Malaysia state of Sabah. During that decade, UMNO granted citizenship and Malaysian Identity Cards (ICs) to over 600,000 foreign migrant workers (predominantly Muslims from Indonesia and Mindanao) in Sabah, in exchange for their votes in state assembly elections (ref B).

Kami Bukan ‘Beruang’ Macam Rahman Dahlan!

Saudara Pengarang,

SAYA amat berdukacita dengan keadaan hidup di negara tercinta ini yang semakin tertekan dengan kenaikan kos hidup. Tidakkah pemimpin-pemimpin kerajaan sedar terhadap kepayahan hidup rakyat semakin hari semakin menghimpit?

Memetik ayat dari portal Malaysiakini berkenaan beban cukai syarikat telekomunikasi yang dialih tanggung kepada pengguna iaitu “cukai 6 % itu menunjukkan kerajaan hanya melindungi badan korporat dan syarikat telekomunikasi, dengan memindahkan beban mereka kepada pengguna @ rakyat walaupun syarikat berkenaan membuat keuntungan setiap tahun.”

Anything But Umno

We can only surmise that Gani Patail has enough to sink Umno dulu, kini dan selamanya. Just like probably VK Lingam knew too much that he could not be charged with subverting justice by trying to influence in the appointing of judges and just like how Tajudin Ramli knows enough about the backroom deals to warrant the government asking GLCs to stop litigation against him.

Ali Kadir, The Malaysian Insider

Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK), the blogger, is right. We don’t know if Pakatan Rakyat will be able to govern our beloved country responsibly or walk the talk.