Land grabs: ‘Police colluding with company’

By Luke Rintod of FMT

Villagers in remote Sabah have accused police
of helping a company occupy their land.

KOTA KINABALU: The displacement of villagers is continuing unabated in remote corners of Sabah – out of the public eye despite claims to the contrary by the Barisan Nasional (BN) state government.

Yet another land-grab case has surfaced. This time, it is in Kampung Mapat and Kampung Mapad in Pitas.

The victims lodged a police report here yesterday claiming that police had assisted a private company, Syarikat Jayasama Sdn Bhd, alienate their NCR (native customary rights) land.

Billions spent on Sabah infrastructures, but how come not much improvements?

By Fredoline Edwin Lojingki
EACH year both the Federal Government and State Government announced hundreds of millions of ringgits for Sabah and in fact thousands of millions ringgits for the whole country for so-called rural development which focussed on basic infrastructures. What astonish me is little is felt here in many rural areas in Sabah. I have travelled to many parts of Sabah in recent times and i found it scaring to claim that those billions were ever spent for the Sabahan people.

No Thinking Muslim Support for Himpunan Sejuta Umat

by Dr. Ahmad Farouk Musa

3:15PM Oct 24, 2011

After much hype, the Himpun gathering at Shah Alam Stadium on Saturday was a non-event.  The dismal attendance of roughly 5,000 hankering souls was a total letdown from the expected one million.

Despite the claim that Himpun was a success by the organisers, it was clear that it was more of a self-reassurance. Himpun failed miserably in their effort to instigate thinking Muslims into supporting their crusade.

Gejala Rampasan Tanah Menghantui Etnik Bumiputra Sabah

Tanah merupakan nadi dan berkait rapat dengan kehidupan masyarakat etnik bumiputera Sabah. Namun kehidupan ini semakin lama semakin terhakis dan menjadi satu mimpi igauan yang ngeri terhadap masa depan generasi anak watan Sabah tulen yang bergantung hidup pada tanah. Ini disebabkan kejadian rampasan tanah yang semakin berleluasa oleh pihak - pihak yang berkepentingan dalam ketamakan mengaut keuntungan tanpa menghiraukan keperitan yang ditanggung oleh kaum etnik bumiputera.

‘Cease attacks on SAPP’

Lim Kit Siang has reminded Sabah DAP that their fight
is with Umno-Barisan Nasional not SAPP.

By Michael Kaung

PENAMPANG: DAP strongman Lim Kit Siang has directed party leaders in Sabah to bury the hatchet and stop the on-going war of words with fellow opposition member, Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP).
Lim, the DAP adviser, is worried that the quarrel between the party’s state branch and SAPP is distracting them from the real challenge in the 13th general election that could be called by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak any time now.

Waiting to get paid

A new CEO takes over at a struggling company and decides to get rid of all the slackers.

On a tour of the facilities, the CEO notices a guy leaning against a wall. He can’t believe this guy would just stand around on the job. The new CEO walks up to the guy and asks, “What are you doing here?”

“I’m just waiting to get paid,” responds the man.

People's power and winning the battle for a future - S.Arutchelvan's paper presented in Australia

By S. Arutchelvan, Sec-Gen of Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM)

In Thailand, Malaysia’s neighbor - recently the Reds won the elections against the yellow. The Reds were mainly based in rural areas and from working class and farmers background but firmly also supporters of Thaksin – the former Prime Minister and telecommunication tycoon while the yellow were those within the elites, supporters of the royalty and the army and many of them are from the urban areas especially Bangkok itself. The NGOs and civil societies – a numbers of them stayed A-political and some call this group, “wait and see” while some lefties organization stood with the Reds because of their class characteristic as well as because they are seen as the democratic forces. The Reds have since won the elections but real reforms are slow to come. The Army and the royalty still very much in the picture.

Timbalan Menteri: Tarik balik penggantungan Aziz Bari

Timbalan Menteri Pengajian Tinggi Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah hari ini menasihatkan rektor Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA) untuk menarik balik penggantungan kontroversi ke atas Prof Abdul Aziz Bari.

Malaysiakini ternampak mesej teks beliau kepada Datuk Zaleha Kamaruddin pagi ini, di mana beliau berkata penggantungan itu adalah “memudaratkan”.

Menurutnya, apa sahaja (sebab-sebab untuk tindakan itu), ia masih
salah dari segi moral dan intelektual (kerana) Aziz belum didapati bersalah.

Sabah’s right: Jeffrey disputes historian’s view

A Universiti Malaya professor claims that Sabah and
Sarawak cannot 'legally' secede from Malaysia.

KOTA KINABALU: Malaysian history professor DS Ranjit has come under fire in Sabah for declaring that the people of the state no longer have the fundamental right to self-determination as their legislators had surrendered that power a long time ago.

The Universiti Malaya historian, whose talk entitled “Sabah prospects and retrospect: The aftermath of colonial rule” here on Thursday, put forward the argument that the British colony which had joined Sarawak, Singapore and Malaya to form Malaysia on Sept 16, 1963, would never be able to legally withdraw from the union.

UMNO dan PKR itu adalah serupa

Oleh Maslan Maginda

Aktivis Masyarakat, Maslan Bin Maginda

KOTA BELUD: Rakyat Sabah jangan terlalu mengagungkan pemimpin asing yang sedang menikmati kekayaan di Negeri sendiri. Kita harus meneruskan perjuangan Tun Fuad Donald Stephen selepas pertikaian isu minyak yang dilihat perkara itu sebagai melanggar pembentukan Malaysia dan menjajah ekonomi Sabah.

Apa yang kita dapat lihat pembangunan hari ini, hanyalah satu wayang kepada kerajaan pusat dan ini melambangkan bahawa rakyat Sabah hanyalah anak patung yang tidak bersuara dan seekor binatang yang hanya menurut perintah mereka sahaja. Cukuplah kita ditindas dari semua arus pembangunan perdana yang dilakukan oleh parti BN/UMNO.