Foreigners With Malaysian Passports - First Hand Experience In Klia

Dear Editor,

 

I appreciate your effort in disseminating information to your close friends. I would like to provide you with my “first hand” experience at KLIA yesterday.

 

I returned from Hong Kong on flight MH 073 on 17^th July 2012 which landed in KLIA at about 6.15pm. Disembarkation and baggage clearance was prompt with no hassles.

 

When I arrived at the Immigration “autogate” there was a queue. There was no officer in the immigration booth manning the gates.

 

Pairin's longtime friend disagrees with attack on Dr Jeffrey...

By Fredoline Edwin Lojingki
PENAMPANG : As a veteran political activist who have been with Joseph Pairin Kitingan for very long years, including when we were both members of Pekemas, an opposition party in the 1960s and 1970s, i cannot but comment on the on-going Pairin's bashing his younger brother Dr Jeffrey.

The sudden outburst by Pairin against his own brother, who is now Star Sabah chapter chairman, including labeling him as liar, speaks volume of his disappointment and paranoia at the shifting support to his younger brother's struggle. Pairin must be so desperate now to cling to power he had taken for granted by supporting a clearly hegemonising and dictating Umno.

Pre-Election Observations

By Tuhun Tavakas

Recently in Kota Kinabalu, Datuk Seri Anwar officiated a forum on Native Customary    Rights (NCR) issues and protection of Native Religious Rights in Sabah. Braving  extreme weather conditions late but safe, Datuk Seri Anwar managed to close the forum with an applause. As a seasoned and well versed Election Observer I attended under the auspices of our humble NGO to hear and to see the amount of interest the forum captured. Datuk Seri tactfully delivered key notes on religion and the protection of the religious rights of the Native Christians in Sabah, an issue that until today Peninsular Politicians will not and can not fathom its uniqueness that Bumiputras in Sabah are Christians. These native rights as enshrined under the 20 point Sabah Constitution that are being silently and quickly eroded. To the thumping rounds of cheers in support of  Datuk Seri Anwar’s undertaking that the state’s unique constitution will be protected and reinstated has sparked immense hope especially from the Native Kadazan Dusun Murut Community (KDM) of its preservation.

Arab nations urge Assad to quit as fighting rages

A Free Syrian Army soldier stands …

ARAB nations have called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to swiftly give up power as his troops launched a fresh assault on rebels in Damascus and the second city Aleppo.

Fighting raged Sunday despite claims by the rebel Free Syrian Army that Assad's regime was "collapsing".

In a joint statement issued early Monday after their meeting in Doha, Arab League foreign ministers called on Assad to "renounce power," promising that he and his family would be offered "a safe exit".

‘I’m prepared to go to jail again’

Sabah STAR chief warns Sarawakians against letting Umno into
the state, alleging that the party is nothing but 'trouble'.

By Joseph Tawie of FMT

KUCHING: Sabah’s political maverick Jeffrey Kitingan is readying himself for prison. If it happens, it will be the second time he is jailed for defending Sabah’s rights.

“Yes, I am prepared to go to jail again to defend, what I term, the legacy of the 20 points upon which Sabah agreed to join Malaya, Singapore and Sarawak to form the federation of Malaysia,” he said when asked by FMT.

Jeffrey was in Sarawak over the weekend to meet supporters of the United Borneo Alliance (UBF) which he chairs. UBF has been pushing the Borneo Agenda which calls for the reinstatement of the 20- and 18-Point Malaysia Agreement which Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore signed with the Federation of Malaya in 1963.