Pushing out Malayans, pulling in S’wakians

They say all’s fair in love and war. But in Taib Mahmud’s case let me add politics. No one can grudge Sarawak’s top man his political strategy.

Taib’s a savvy politician, on his toes and ahead of his enemies.

He knows that in Sarawak, he is not the enemy, Putrajaya and Umno is.

And so he embraces Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion which states that “every action has an equal and opposite reaction”.

Heaviest Man Alive Airlifted to Hospital in Saudi Arabia

Shaari being transferred to
Medical Center

By Kochava Rozenbaum

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah took part in assisting the heaviest man alive, Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, who weighs 1,345 pound (610kg), to the country’s capital Riyadh for medical treatments.

The obese young man had to be fork-lifted from his apartment bedroom to an airlift heading to the King Fahd Medical City, reported CNN yesterday.

Pencuri Raya pertama mandi darah kena belasah penduduk kampung

Ezra Haganez

KOTA KINABALU : Seorang lelaki yang dikhuatiri rakyat asing tetapi memiliki kad pengenalan Malaysia yang cuba memecah masuk dua buah rumah di Kampung Kopungit dekat sini pada Hari Raya Aidilfitri pertama bermandi darah dibelasah penduduk kampung yang berang dengan tabiat pencuri itu.

Abdul Malik, 36, dari Lorong 12, Kampung Sembulan, di sini, juga terpaksa bermalam di tempat tahanan balai polis Tanjung Aru untuk menunggu pendakwaan.

‘Syabu killed my only son’

By Thomas Pi

LAHAD DATU: Salomah Hamad, 30, is the heartbroken mother of  7-year-old Haikal who was slain by his father last week inside the living room of an unnumbered wooden house belonging to her adopted parents in Kampong Ipil.

During an interview, Salomah, holding a small photo of her son taken when he was aged two, said her 35-year-old husband was a drug addict. She believes that syabu caused him to lose his mind to the extent of slitting the throat of their only son and then allegedly drinking his blood.

“Syabu killed my son … my only son!” she cried.

Musa ‘lacks Malay-ness’ for Umno

By Luke Rintod of FMT

KOTA KINABALU: A political scientist in Sabah believes it would be better for the two Sabah Umno leaders, currently being propped to vie for Umno’s vice presidency, to work together.

In contention for one of the three coveted Umno vice-president posts are Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman and federal Minister of Rural Development, Shafie Apdal.

Shafie is an incumbent to this seat. The other two incumbent vice presidents are federal ministers Hishamuddin Hussein and Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Pemilik halaman FB akan didakwa jika didapati bersalah

KUCHING: Timbalan Menteri dalam Negeri Datuk Dr. Wan Haji Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar berkata Kementerian dalam negeri (KDN) bertindak seperti satu badan payung yang akan memantau pihak polis kalau mereka sudah mengambil tindakan.

Beliau berkata di dalam perlembagaan negara sangat jelas menggariskan apa yang boleh dan apa yang tidak boleh, mengkritik sesiapapun jika bercanggah dengan perlembagaan, itu adalah satu kesalahan.

Revived FB page insults East M’sians

The page has been successful in using religion to divide
Malaysians, with many users using Islam and
Christianity as subjects of their arguments.

By Lisa J. Ariffin
PETALING JAYA: An anti-East Malaysia fan page which was previously shutdown has resurfaced on Facebook and is spewing racial and religious slurs.

The “Semenanjung (Peninsular) Malaysia Anti Sabah & Sarawak” fan page has garnered 321 ‘Likes’ since it resurfaced on the social-networking site on Aug 5, a far cry from the 4,870 ‘Likes’ it had before it was removed from Facebook.

Sabah cracks down on ‘opposition’ villages

By Joseph Bingkasan

KOTA KINABALU: Village chiefs in various district in Sabah where the opposition made inroads in the May 5 general election are starting to feel the anger of the Barisan Nasional government.

Several of them have received notices of termination of their services particularly in the Kadazan Dusun Murut (KDM) majority villages.

They believe that their dismissals are malicious and a form of revenge for the drop in support for the BN in the respective constituencies.

Insecurity – Greatest Failure of Federation Of Malaysia – Dr Jeffrey

Kota Kinabalu:    “The insecurity felt by Malaysians in Sabah is the greatest failure of the Federation of Malaysia and the reality is now turning into a nightmare even for lawmakers from the Barisan Nasional”, said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief, in response to the statement by YB. Datuk Seri Bung Mokhtar that he fears for his life to the extent he fears that he will be shot dead the moment he step out of Parliament House.”

The recent daily killings and violent crimeswere not confined to the Peninsular but has also spread to Sabah and with the rising crime rate, Malaysians are now living in fear.

Tanah sawah di Penampang dijual seekar RM1.7 juta

Oleh Percy Goliu
PENAMPANG: Segala-galanya adalah mengenai wang. Dan wang mengubah segala-galanya. Tidak hairanlah ramai pemilik sawah padi di Penampang menjadi ‘jutawan mini segera’ selepas menjual seekar dua tanah nenek moyang mereka kepada orang tengah yang kemudian membangunkan tanah itu untuk tujuan komersial.

Sawah padi di Kampung Kodundungan-Goliput, Jalan Pintas Penampang di sini, dikatakan dijual pada harga di antara RM1.5 juta dan RM1.7 seekar. Kawasan ini yang 10 tahun yang lalu masih aktif ditanam dengan padi, kini ditumbuhi dengan pelbagai bangunan komersial dan infrastruktur.