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‘Bruised, but not beaten’



Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud takes the oath as Chief Minister at 10.30PM tonight in front of the Sarawak Governor. In an earlier statement, Taib disclosed that he was prepared to step down from the Chief Minister's post,

Final status of parties in the 10th Sarawak Electio

KUCHING: Following is status of the parties contesting in the 10th Sarawak state election after the last result was announced by the Election Commission at 11pm tonight.

Barisan Nasional – 55

DAP – 12

PKR – 3

SNAP – 0

PAS – 0

Parti Cinta Malaysia – 0

Independents – 1

All 71 seats in the State Legislative Assembly were contested in this election. – Bernama

I will return to face charges, says RPK

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia Today editor, Raja Petra Kamaruddin, said he will return home to plead guilty to defaming military intelligence officer Col Azmi Zainal Abidin and not for charges of defaming Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s wife, Rosmah Mansor, and military officers Col Norhayati Hassan and Col Aziz Buyong.

RPK: The plan was to make Ku Li the PM

PETALING JAYA: Controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin today revealed that there was a plot engineered so that veteran Umno leader Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah can take over as prime minister from Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

“The objective was to block Najib Tun Razak from taking over as prime minister,” said Raja Petra, better known as RPK, in his website Malaysia Today in a follow-up to an interview which was broadcast on TV3 yesterday.

Raja Petra: 'A tempest is going to be created. I knew that'


By Azreen Hani, Malay Mail
PETALING JAYA: The founder and editor of Malaysia Today, Raja Petra Kamaruddin (pic) in an article on the online news portal Malaysia Today reiterated the interview he gave Stesen Televisyen Malaysia Berhad (TV3) was for the police to re-launch investigation into his statutory declaration (SD) which was signed on June 18, 2008 and to 'find the truth.'

Muslim NGOs to protest Alkitab release


By Syed Mu’az Syed Putra, The Malaysian Insider

KUALA LUMPUR, April 14 – Muslim groups will protest tomorrow against Putrajaya’s release of Malay-language bibles, after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak promised yesterday that his administration would never again impound bibles.
The Muslim Organisations in Defence of Islam (Pembela)’s protest here would occur a day before Sarawak, where half of its population is made up of Christians, goes to polls.

10-point SOLUTION AD HOC AND SHORT-TERM RESOLUTION

CHRISTIAN FEDERATION OF MALAYSIA (PERSEKUTUAN KRISTIAN MALAYSIA)
Address: 10, Jalan 11/9, Section 11, 46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Telephone: (03) 7957 1278, (03) 7957 1463, Fax: (03) 7957 1457


14th April 2011

  
The Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM) takes note of the Prime Minister’s letter dated 11 April 2011 in relation to the collective decision of the Cabinet on the 10-point solution to address the Alkitab or Bahasa Malaysia/Indonesia Bible and other related issues.

RPK: Now that the shit has hit the fan

Sometimes we need a storm to get people’s attention. Maybe now the police will do what I have been asking them to do these last three years: that is, investigate my statutory declaration and ascertain the truth behind what Lt Kol Azmi Zainal Abidin alleged.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin



The Umno websites and blogs call me a liar. They say I have signed a statutory declaration falsely accusing Rosmah Mansor and the husband and wife Lt Kols (Aziz Buyong and Norhayati Hassan) as being at the scene of the Altantuya murder the night she was murdered and blown up with C4.

Singapore 2011 budget

A friend was in Singapore when Singapore 2011 budget was tabled. There were two items that impressed him most ....can't remember all :

Growth and share concept: Singapore govt will give away cash amounting to SGD800 to individuals and between SGD5000 - 2000 per household. The estimated per household should average SGD3000!!!!! 

Raja Petra Bakal Melompat....?

Mana mungkin seorang yang dibenci Barisan Nasional boleh mendapat tempat di Buletin Utama TV3suku. Mengapa TV3suku tidak temuramah Anwar Ibrahim, Kak Wan, Husam Musa, Mahfuz Omar secara mereka menemuramah Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin?

Kes Altantuya: RPK nafi tuduh PM, Rosmah

Itu pengakuan pengendali lamanweb Malaysia Today Raja Petra Kamarudin dalam temubual eksklusif dengan Pengarang Kumpulan TV3, Ashraf Abdullah di Perth, Australia baru-baru ini. 

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"Saya tidak pernah menuduh Perdana Menteri atau
isterinya terbabit dalam kes pembunuhan kes
Altantuya Sharibuu."
Sebaliknya, Raja Petra mendakwa, beliau didesak dan dipengaruhi untuk berbuat demikian oleh beberapa individu yang tidak mahu Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak mengambil-alih sebagai Perdana Menteri.

Berikutan adalah transkrip temubual tersebut yang disiarkan dalam lamanweb TV3.

The Sultan of Bintulu Helps Himself to The Airport!

The Old Bintulu Airport now occupies a prime space
in the centre of the town.
Businessmen in Bintulu have been eying the opportunity of acquiring the vast area of the Central District occupied by the old airport.

This is public land, of course, and so its disposal comes under the control of the Chief Minster, because (outrageously) he is also the Planning and Resources Minister and Finance Minister and the man who dominates his home district of Bintulu.

Vote tampering caught on video?

KUCHING: DAP has lodged a police report over a video clip purportedly showing an incident of postal vote tampering that took place in Sibu this afternoon.

Telling the truth................

A woman and her ten-year-old son were riding in a taxi on Seymour Street in Vancouver. It was raining and all the prostitutes were standing under the awnings.

"Mom," said the boy, "what are all those women doing?"

"They're waiting for their husbands to get off work," she replied.

The taxi driver turns around and says, "Geez lady, why don't you tell him the truth? They're hookers, boy! They have sex with men for money.."

The little boy's eyes get wide and he says, "Is that true, Mom?"

His mother, glaring hard at the driver, answers in the affirmative.

After a few minutes, the kid asks, "Mom, what happens to the babies those women have?"

"Most of them become taxi drivers," she said

Australian state rejects Lynas waste from Malaysia

Western Australia’s Norman Moore says the government will not take in other countries’ radioactive waste. — Courtesy of Western Australia government website
KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 — As debate continues to rage over the start of the Lynas rare earth plant in Malaysia, the Western Australian government has said it will reject calls to take back the mining company’s radioactive waste. 

Bakun Dam ‘Unsafe’! – Exclusive Evidence on Corner-Cutting and Sloppy Construction Practices

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Devastating information has come into the hands of Sarawak Report, which throws terrifying doubt over the safety of the Bakun Dam!

Inside information, which includes documents, photographs and videos, has been passed over to us by former a Quality Controller, who says concerns about sloppy procedures and cost-cutting measures were ignored by the bosses at Sinohydro.

Haris the latest activist to be barred from S’wak

The lawyer and MCLM president becomes the third
KL-based activist to be barred this month.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement president Haris Ibrahim today became the latest peninsular-based activist to be barred from entering Sarawak.

He was stopped at the Kuching International Airport this evening when he landed from Kuala Lumpur.

Sarawakians, you stand at the threshold ....

By Martin Jalleh

Sarawakians, you stand at the threshold of a great deciding and defining moment of change. You can either decisively help shape the future of your State or let it slide and sink like a tragic struggling shipwreck.

Cubaan membeli calon bermula

PAS membuat satu laporan polis ekoran calon mereka di Dewan Undangan Negeri (Dun) Tanjung Datu, Nani Sahari didakwa cuba diugut dan cuba dibeli pihak tertentu.

Sipaun in trouble over ‘British better than Malaya’ remark

The ex-Suhakam man has been questioned by
the police for saying life in Sabah was
better under the British administration.
by Luke Rintod of FMT
KOTA KINABALU: Police have started questioning several people following a complaint made against Malaysian Human Rights Commission’s (Suhakam) former vice-chairman Simon Sipaun in Kota Kinabalu last month.

Robert Phang slams Nazri and A-G Gani Patail: End Gutter Politics

It appears that with or without a position in the MACC, Tan Sri Robert Phang who is the Chairman of an NGO, the Social Care Foundation, cannot be pinned down to keep quiet. Despite being warned that A-G Gani Patail is upset with him, Phang seems to be throwing  caution to the wind.

Taib Mahmud sudah terlalu berkuasa di Sarawak

Sarawak bumi kaya tetapi rakyat terus miskin
derita - CheguBard.
PETALING JAYA: Ketua Menteri Abdul Taib Mahmud sudah terlalu berkuasa di Sarawak sehinggakan Perdana Menteri Najib Tun Razak gagal memujuk supaya beliau berundur.

1Malaysia 2 Allahs !! Absurd Triviality of M'sian Leaders

Dear me, this is pretty confusing and funny.

Nazri nows says "Allah" OK for East Malaysia!

Here are some funny bloggers' comments.

We can laugh to keep our sanity in this crazy country hahaha !!!

The Hotel Bill

An elderly lady decided to give herself a big treat for her significant birthday by staying overnight in one of London's most expensive hotels.

The Most Dangerous Thing You'll Do All Day

We stand around a lot here at Men’s Health. In fact, a few of us don’t even have office chairs. Instead, we write, edit, and answer e-mails—a lot of e-mails—while standing in front of our computers. All day long. Why?

Set-up RCI for DOE investigating officer Rumie Azzan

Call for RCI to re-open riddle of seven-year mysterious death of Sarawak DOE investigating officer Rumie Azzan falling from 9th floor of STA in Kuching in Sept 2004.

‘What’s your daughter’s role in Taib’s company, George?’

KUCHING: Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) president and deputy chief minister Dr George Chan’s denial that he had links to Titanium Sdn Bhd has come under ridicule from DAP today.

Pilot killed in helicopter crash

SIBU: A Sabah Air helicopter crashed in the town square, killing its pilot, after flying Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and his entourage here.

Sahimi Ghazali, 38, took off at 1.45pm to return to Sibu airport but the helicopter rose about 3m before it crashed.

‘Even Dr M failed to oust Taib’

KUCHING: PKR leaders remain sceptical of Sarawak Chief Minister’s departure from politics as promised by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.

According to them, even former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad had failed to show him the exit, what more Najib.

Sarawak report under DDoS attack

KUCHING: Online news blog Sarawak Report, which has been disclosing revelations on Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s extensive business empire and unexplainable wealth running into billions of US dollars, has come under massive attack.

Unfair of Rahim to put all blames on PBS

By Daniel John Jambun
KOTA KINABALU, East Malaysia: Although I am not a member of Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS), being a Kadazandusun leader with a sense of responsibility for my people, I must take Datuk Rahim Ismail to task for his arrogance against a former Sabah Government headed by Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan who was unfairly put under loads of pressures by UMNO during Dr Mahathir Mohamad tenure as Prime Minister.

Dear ________ ,, Sincerely, __________

Dear Twilight fans,
Please realize that because vampires are dead and have no blood pumping through them, they can never get an erection.
Enjoy fantasizing about that.
Sincerely,
Logic

Three undergraduates voicing their rights arrested in KL Sentral

KUALA LUMPUR: Police arrested three journalists, a photographer and three undergraduates for alleged participation in an illegal assembly at the city’s transportation hub, KL Sentral in Brickfields, here, today.

It is understood that the journalists are from Keadilan Daily and the photographer from TV Selangor who were there to attend a news conference on the  “Undergraduates Safe the People Expedition”.

Why are villagers depending on rain for free drinking water?

By Priscilla Watson

BINTULU: Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim was stumped when villagers in Ba’ Kelalan told him that they waited for rain to get free drinking water.

“I’m in shock… (Chief Minister) Taib (Mahmud) has been in the office for 30 years and has enriched himself and members of his family while the people of Sarawak still living in poverty,” he said.

PRESS STATEMENT from Francis Paul Siah, leader of the Movement for Change, Sarawak (MoCS) in Kuching on 10th April, 2011

PRESS STATEMENT from Francis Paul Siah, leader of the Movement for Change, Sarawak (MoCS) in Kuching on 10th April, 2011

MoCS wishes to announce that it has ‘adopted’ nine (9) candidates from Pakatan Rakyat parties  - six from PKR, two from DAP and one from PAS. Four (4) others including three Independents are under its direct sponsorship.

A letter from customs officer

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Hi Pete,

I refer to your article in No Holds Barred entitled ‘About sex and bribery’ and think you got the facts about the Zakaria Chek case on the car smuggling syndicate somewhat wrong.

For you kind information, the Customs Department was not involved in this scam. In fact, much to our exasperation, we were impeded in our investigations.

I was personally involved in the investigation of the case as part of a special task force in 1991. We single-handedly cracked the case after obtaining information from a confidential informant. It was only after we started confiscating the cars -- most of which were Honda Accords -- that the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA; now MACC) approached us and said that they wanted to take-over the investigation.

We then decided that there would be a joint and parallel investigation together with the ACA and Bukit Aman.

The modus operandi, in a nutshell, was that cars from Singapore (presumably stolen but usually deregistered) would be driven by syndicate members into Johor Bharu through the Causeway. Yes, the cars came from Singapore but it went through as ‘day visits’ and then left on the roadside where police officers, who were colluding with the syndicate, would confiscate them and take them to the police impound warehouse.

After about a month, these cars would be forfeited and then ‘auctioned off’ by the police. The ‘auction’ was fixed so that a Mr Chen (a second-hand car dealer) would successfully bid for the cars. Once the cars were auctioned off, they were then reregistered with the Johor Bharu Road Transport Department and presented with legitimised logbooks.

Zakaria Chek was involved and so was the then Johor Bharu OCPD, Dato Rahim, who was charged along with a group of around eight police officers who operated from an office in Jalan Meldrum preparing the auction documents.

When we called in Mr Chen for investigation and questioning, he even boasted that he would make sure that we would all get transferred out and that we would feel the wrath of the police bearing against us. He was always seen with Zakaria Chek and Dato Rahim and even had a personal police staff stick that he carried around.

Our team even wanted to conduct a raid on the Johor Bahru central police station to secure evidence but was advised not to do so by HQ, as this would be the first time in history where a police station would be raided and this could cause irreparable reputational damage. However, we gathered such convincing evidence that Dato Rahim and a few other officers were convicted. Zakaria Chek escaped prosecution but was then stuffed in ‘cold storage’.

We seized more than 200 cars.

Although I cannot confirm whether this is the retaliation Mr Chen meant, a few months after the case was exposed, Customs officers were harassed at the Causeway by traffic police officers and summoned for even the most minor of traffic offences. Many officers ended up with dozens of traffic summonses. This, however, was resolved later through mediation.

Wong Chin Huat blocked from entering Sarawak

Political scientist and activist Wong Chin Huat has been blocked from entering Sarawak – but, while still at Kuching Airport, he is challenging the move from a legal standpoint.

Chin Huat arrived in Kuching at around 9.00pm on an Asia Asia flight from Kuala Lumpur – and was promptly denied entry.

Dominique Ng on his 10 reasons for contesting as Independent in Padungan

By Dominique Ng Kim Ho

KUCHING:

1. I AM THE INCUMBENT YB AND I AM DUTY BOUND TO DEFEND THE PADUNGAN SEAT. I HAVE SOLEMNLY VOWED TO SERVE AND I WILL NOT SHIRK MY DUTIES OR RUN AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE OF PADUNGAN.

Big aftershock rattles Japan disaster zone

SENDAI: A powerful aftershock rocked Japan’s tsunami disaster zone, killing at least three and triggering new concerns over nuclear power plants in a region still grappling with an atomic emergency.

Electricity was cut across a huge area of northern Japan, forcing cooling systems at three nuclear plants to switch to emergency power and plunging more than 3.3 million households into darkness late last night.

Go home and vote, Sarawakians urged

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah DAP has urged Sarawakians living and working in Sabah to make an effort to return to their respective constituencies and vote for DAP candidates during this coming Sarawak state election.

7.4-magnitude quake hits Japan, local tsunami alert

TOKYO: A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Japan late today, seismologists said, prompting Japanese authorities to issue a localised tsunami alert.

The quake, which hit at 11.32pm local time, had a magnitude of 7.4, according to the US Geological Survey, which said it struck 66 kilometres (40 miles) east of Sendai.

Lapan pegawai imigresen diseret ke mahkamah

SHAH ALAM: Seramai lapan pegawai dari Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia dihadapkan ke Mahkamah Sesyen atas dakwaan rasuah berhubung urusan kemasukan warganegara Indonesia ke Malaysia.

Taib: Two-thirds within my hand

Don't worry Najib, two-thirds within my hand already.
KANOWIT: Two-thirds majority is still very much within the grasp of the Barisan Nasional (BN) in the coming 10th Sarawak state polls, said Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud.

He said this was despite the fact that this election was the most keenly contested one with a total of 213 candidates including 16 who are women.

“I am a bit surprised and puzzled as well with the big number of candidates,” Taib told reporters after a “meet-the-people” session at Rh.Jelani anak Daud, a 66-door longhouse in Nanga Lesih near here today.

Greenhorn in a hot seat

Chiew, at 27, is the youngest DAP candidate in
the election.
In late December last year, Christina Chiew’s tenancy agreement expired and she had to move in with a friend while waiting for her new home to be ready. For two months, she lived in Batu Kawah, a small town about an hour’s drive from Kuching.

There she learnt that the residents either bought electrical poles with their own money or went without electricity. She rolled up her pants leg during bouts of torrential rain when floodwater would rise to alarming levels within an hour. And she witnessed the life of hardship that farmers and vegetable sellers lead.

50,000 Sabahans want RCI on illegals

Sabah opposition party SAPP is bent on convincing NGOs and political groups across the divide to back calls for Royal Commission of Inquiry on illegals
 
KOTA KINABALU, April 6, 2011: Some 50,000 Malaysian citizens in Sabah have signed a petition demanding that the federal government set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in the state.
Oleh Raymond Tombung

PITAS: Masyarakat Tombonuo masih  ketinggalan  dan  perlu lebih banyak berusaha dan mendapat bantuan  terutama daripada pihak kerajaan  untuk maju kehadapan supaya layak untuk duduk sama rendah berdiri sama tinggi dengan kaum-kaum  atau  masyarakat lain di negeri Sabah.

Tombonuos still lagging, needs to work harder to progress: Akian

By Raymond Tombung

KOTA KINABALU: The Tombonuo people of Sabah are still backward and needs to strive harder and to receive more help from the government, to enable them to move forward in order to catch up with the other communities.

The Carpetman who is Rosmah’s Bagman and much more

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I only do business with Rosmah, said the Carpetman. My relationship with Rosmah is only for business purposes. I am not sleeping with Rosmah, he pleaded. So please do not tell the public that I am Rosmah’s Toyboy.

SENARAI PENCALONAN MENGIKUT STATUS KEPUTUSAN PENCALONAN BAGI PILIHAN RAYA UMUM DUN SARAWAK KE-10

P. 192 - MAS GADING
N. 1 - OPAR 1 . STEPHEN ANAK SAGIR SNAP
2 . JOSEPH JINDY ANAK PETER ROSEN BEBAS
3 . BONIFACE WILLY ANAK TUMEK PKR
4 . RANUM ANAK MINA BN
N. 2 - TASIK BIRU 1 . PETER NANSIAN ANAK NGUSIE BN
2 . FRANKIE JUREM ANAK NYOMBUI SNAP
3 . JOHN TENEWI NUEK @ JOHN TENEWI PKR

Top 10 hot seats

THE polls is shaping up to be one of the most exciting in years with many seats expected to see multi-cornered fights. Here’s our pick of hot seats.

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