Salleh: Resolve oil royalty issue now

KOTA BELUD: Sabah Umno Liaison Committee deputy chief Salleh Said Keruak has cautioned Putrajaya against ignoring calls for an urgent review of the current 5% oil royalty.

He said an immediate review was necessary and timely in view of the mounting calls from leaders within the Barisan Nasional coalition here and in Sarawak.

Salleh, who is also state legislative assembly speaker, believed the majority of the people of Sabah would support such a move.

Sarawak: Who let Ibrahim Ali in?

KUCHING: A local NGO Persatuan Kebangsaan Melayu Sarawak (PKMS) is calling for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to remove its chairman for “endorsing Malayan racist politics entry into Sarawak”.

Association member, Morshidi Abdul Rahman posted in the Sarawak Sovereignty Movement (SSM) Facebook page: “All members of Persatuan Kebangsaan Melayu Sarawak. EGM to be called!

Ukraine orders Crimea troop withdrawal as Russia seizes naval base

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Interim Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov ordered the withdrawal of armed forces from Crimea Monday, citing Russian threats to the lives of military staff and their families.

Russian troops have seized most of Ukraine's bases in the peninsula, including a naval base at Feodosia on Monday. Russia annexed Crimea last week after a controversial referendum that Ukraine and the West say was illegal.

Run of bad luck for MAS continues

PETALING JAYA: Even as a multinational effort is ongoing to locate MH370 which went missing over the Gulf of Thailand on March 8 with 239 people aboard, Malaysia Airlines’ (MAS) run of bad luck continues.

While the search efforts, now concentrated south of the Indian Ocean, has turned up nothing conclusive as to what happened to the Boeing 777-200ER, another two MAS aircrafts ran into problems within the last week.

A MAS aircraft on a flight from Kuala Lumpur with 180 passengers and crew members on board had a close call while landing at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Like it or not, corruption, abuse of power, incompetency, complacency, and negligence & utter stupidity, contributed to the flight MH370 crisis. 

 

Even Mahathir’s mouthpiece Kadir Jasin agrees on this. 

It’s business as usual if you wish to enter Malaysia illegally from Indonesia using speedboats.