Is UPKO Still Relevant or Powerless? -STAR

Kota Kinabalu:    “While it is laudable for the Upko MP for Putatan to be brave enough to voice the lack of funding for Sabah, it shows that Upko is irrelevant and powerless in the BarisanNasional and incapable of safeguarding the interests of Sabah” said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief in response to the statement by Datuk Dr. Marcus Mojigoh recently thatSabah should be getting more funding from the Federal Government towards improving the electricity supply in the state and that the electricity tariffs were increased without consulting the elected representatives.

Govt Must Explain James Shoal Incursion–Dr. Jeffrey

Kota Kinabalu:    “The federal Government and the Defence Ministry must be prepared for all consequences for their failures to treat lightly the intrusion by the Chinese navy into the James Shoal, 80 km. from Sarawak’s coastline” said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief referring to the recent incident where China’s naval warships carried out an exercise there and its subsequent denial by the navy chief.

Separation as Last Resort Cannot be Ruled Out –Dr.Jeffrey

Kota Kinabalu:“While separation from Malaysia may not be an immediate option, it (separation) should not be ruled out as a last resort option or forced option” said Datuk Dr.Jeffrey Kitingan, Chairman of STAR SABAH responding to views that separation of Sabah and Sarawak was not an option and treasonous to even discuss it.

We need to differentiate the differences in instances of separation and contentions of some instances being treasonous. For the Islamist and Malay extremists, calls for the chasing out of people from the federation is separatist and seditious as well as treasonous.

Angpow: Return 40% of Customs RM772 Million "Profits" - Dr. Jeffrey

Kota Kinabalu:  “The Sabah government must demand and the federal government must return 40% of the RM772 millionnet revenue collected by Customs Sabah from Sabah in accordance with the Tenth Schedule of the Federal Constitution”said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief, responding to the RM772 million “profits” made by the Sabah Customs from the RM837 million collected from Sabah in 2013.

Stephen Hawking: 'There are no black holes'

Artist's impression VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SPL/Getty

The defining characteristic of a black hole may have to give, if the two pillars of modern physics — general relativity and quantum theory — are both correct.

 

Most physicists foolhardy enough to write a paper claiming that “there are no black holes” — at least not in the sense we usually imagine — would probably be dismissed as cranks. But when the call to redefine these cosmic crunchers comes from Stephen Hawking, it’s worth taking notice. In a paper posted online, the physicist, based at the University of Cambridge, UK, and one of the creators of modern black-hole theory, does away with the notion of an event horizon, the invisible boundary thought to shroud every black hole, beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape.