Merdeka Day-55 years of broken promises

In Malaysia many of its citizens are very confused over 2 public holidays being their Merdeka Day or independence day and Malaysia Day and also their national identity.

Malaysia Day marks the federation of 3 countries Malaya Sabah and Sarawak on 16 September 1963. The confusion has arisen over the last 49 years because each country became independent on different dates before the federation.

Today on 31 August in 1957, the Federation of Malaya gained independence from British colonial rule and at the same time this marks 55 years of unbroken hold on power by the ruling party the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO which leads the Barisan Nasional Government.

Mantan MP Pensiangan Datuk Taimin tawar diri calon BEBAS-UMNO Cabar PBRS Parlimen Pensiangan

Oleh: Ambrose M Matthew
NABAWAN: Bekas Ahli Parlimen Pensiangan Datuk Taimin Lumaing (gambar), bingkas bangun menawarkan diri untuk bertanding atas tiket bebas-Umno pada pilihanraya umum kali ke-13 (PRU-13) untuk membuktikan sama ada UMNO Pensiangan mempunyai sokongan pengundi dikawasan itu sebagai mencabar dakwaan PBRS.

Beliau berkata, sekiranya pemimpin PBRS terutamanya Ketua Pergerakan Pemudanya Kahirin Bador terlalu yakin dengan dakwaannya bahawa UMNO Pensiangan akan kalah disitu jika diberi peluang untuk bertanding disalah satu daripada tiga kerusi Pensiangan beliau (Taimin) kini sudah bersedia untuk menyahut cabaran itu.

STAR Menjemput Hadir Rumah Terbuka Merdeka Raya

“STAR Sabah mengambil kesempatan ini untu kmenjemput semua warga Malaysia yang bermastautin di Sabah untuk sama-sama menghadiri Majlis Rumah Terbuka Merdeka Raya di Restoran Pelancongan Pedalaman, Jalan Keningau-Tenom, Keningau, pada 31hb.Ogos 2012 bermula jam 12 tengahari” dalam pesanan oleh En.Azmi @ Egang Linitok, Pengerusi Penganjur merangkap ketua Jawatankuasa Khas Bumiputra Islam STAR Sabah di Keningau.

Majlis Rumah Terbuka Merdeka Raya adalah sempena Hari Raya AidilFitri dan Memperingati Hari Merdeka Sabah Ke-49.

STAR Sabah berharap rakyat Sabah dapat mengambil peluang ini untuk mengeratkan perhubungan di antara kaum dan pelbagai etnik di Sabah sebagai suatu keluarga yang besar dengan SATU IDENTITI sebagai warga Sabah dan SATU PERJUANGAN untuk menuntut pemulihan hak Sabah sebagai sebuah Negara yang berautonomi dan sama-taraf.

SELAMAT HARI RAYA dan SELAMAT MAJU JAYA.

State Government Failed Founding Fathers on Sabah Independence: STAR

“The State Government has failed Sabah’s founding fathers in failing to commemorate the 49th anniversary of Sabah Independence on 31 August” said Melvin Jaikul Datuk Imbayan, STAR Keningau Division Vice-Chief while overseeing the preparations for the 49th commemoration by STAR Sabah to be held in Keningau on 31st.

Efforts of Founding Fathers on Independence Not Acknowledged

Sabah’s history and independence cannot and should not be denied by the current State government.  Why should the independence of Sabah on 31 August 1963 be relegated to the annals of history and covered up?  

Najib visiting Sabah… again

Political analysts in Sabah are of the opinion that
Najib Tun Razak's meeting with Sabah Umno in
Sandakan this weekend could be tense.

By Calvin Kabaron
KOTA KINABALU: Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is set to fly into Sabah for a two-day visit on Saturday (Sept 1) a day after Merdeka Day, which has raised a storm here over the federal government’s insistence that the nation is celebrating its 55th birthday.

It’s Najib’s fourth visit to Sabah this year and comes six weeks after his last visit to Keningau on June 16. All have so far been carefully staged affairs to give the impression that he is popular in the state.

Though there is no official statement about his itinerary here, signboards welcoming him and wife Rosmah Mansor, are already up in Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan and in Kota Belud, the birth place of Sabah Umno.