Jeffrey’s party to contest most constituencies

By Luke Rintod of FMT

KOTA KINABALU: Local opposition State Reform Party (STAR) is likely to contest in 40 of the 60 state seats and in 16 of the 25 parliamentary constituencies in the coming general elections.

STAR Sabah deputy chairman, Daniel John Jambun, in a statement here on Friday evening said the party leadership under Jeffrey Kitingan had decided on this and that the party will introduce all its candidates ahead of the polls.

Falkland to vote in a referendum whether to stick with UK or not

STANLEY, Falkland Islands (AP) — Britain is hoping this weekend's referendum on the political status of the Falkland Islands will push the United States and other neutral governments off the fence in its territorial dispute with Argentina over the remote South Atlantic archipelago.

The local Falkland Islands Government has mobilized a major effort to get as many of its 1,650 registered voters as possible to cast their secret ballots Sunday and Monday, preparing to send off-road vehicles, boats and seaplanes to remote sheep farms across the lightly populated islands.

Malaysia a failure in Sabah, Sarawak

By Joe Fernandez

It’s patently pointless getting into rhetoric and polemics on Malaysia in Sabah and Sarawak, at this juncture, in the wake of the Lahad Datu Standoff. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has vowed that Sabah will remain forever within Malaysia. Apologists for his Administration swear that Malaysia was properly constituted in Sabah as well.

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) in The Ballad of East and West

Malaya on the one hand, and Sabah and Sarawak on the other hand, are poles apart.

Mahathir and Umno leaders should be the ones barred from entering Sabah, says STAR

Daniel John Jambun,STAR Sabah Deputy Chairman

By Daniel John Jambun

INANAM : The hoo-haa by Umno supporters against opposition colleague Tian Chua for his unfavourable comment to Umno on the Sulu gunmen in Sabah is just but an effort to distract people's attention from the real issue at hand.

If there is a leader or leaders needed to be barred from entering Sabah, iit must not be Tian Chua but Mahathir Mohamad and all his Umno leaders, including Najib Eazak, in cahoot with Mahathir's pet project of issuing Malaysian documents to these illegal immigrants from Sulu.

Anti-Wan Azizah letter writer fears for his safety

Mohd Fareez Kamal Intidzam has lodged a police report
at the Dang Wangi police station yesterday, asking for
police protection for himself and his family against
 those who are looking for him.

Source 

A former aide of PKR women chief Zuraida Kamaruddin is claiming that he is being “hunted down” by the party and its leaders after details of his letter which had called for the removal of PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail had become public.

Mohd Fareez Kamal Intidzam, 24, now wants the police to provide him with security as he feels his safety is at stake.

“I am being hunted down by certain people who I think are either supporters or people acting on behalf of Wan Azizah.

“Since the details of my letter became public, they had even managed to track me down to the hotel in which I was staying,” he said in a statement today.