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Star will move on, says Papar leader

By Baharudin Nayan
PAPAR : In respond to the claim by former Star head for Papar, Datuk Patrick Sindu, that Papar Star is dissolved, i would like to stress that the majority of grassroots leaders and members in Papar are steadfast in their unity with Star state leadership in regaining our pride and empowering Sabahans.

In Pantai Manis especially, there is no big effect at all from Sindu's departure. If anything, Star strength and support from the people in Pantai Manis is increasing even more by the day as more and more see and understand the earnest strugle and clear direction of Star.

Former Sabah CM says the prevailing peace,
unity and stability in the country should
be maintained at all costs.

KOTA BELUD: State Legislative Assembly Speaker Salleh Said Keruak today called for an immediate stop to debate over the use of “Allah” by non-Muslims, for fear that the prolonged open debate may give room to extremists in all religions to take advantage of the situation.

In making the call, the former chief minister said the prevailing peace, unity and stability in the country should be maintained at all costs.

“Don’t politicise it [the use of Allah] and score points. Keep sensitive issues aside. We must maintain a harmonious environment and respect each other.

Learning from Greece

On November 30-December 2012, Greece’s Coalition of the Radical Left, known as SYRIZA, held a national conference as the first step in transforming the coalition into a more unified political formation. SYRIZA was formed in 2004 as an electoral alliance uniting radical left-wing organizations—there are now more than a dozen member groups. But since its inspiring success in nearly winning national elections last spring, SYRIZA’S ranks have been swelled by many unaffiliated individuals.

SYRIZA’s mass appeal was based on its rejection of the austerity program supported by Greece’s two main parties, the center-left PASOK and center-right New Democracy. Instead, SYRIZA pledged to immediately cancel the two so-called Memorandums—agreements made between the Greek government and the “troika” of the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund that require savage cuts, privatization and anti-working class laws in return for a bailout of Greece’s financial system.

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah—The 4th floor of Hospital Likas in Kingfisher was today swarmed with donors from all walks of life rushing to donate blood to save the life of Neowell Vann Houtton, whose rare blood type O Positive R1R1 JKA must have an EXACT match to qualify for a successful blood transfusion.

Nilakrisna James, lawyer and activist appealing on 12 year old’s Neowell’s behalf, said that hospital staff had informed her that the blood of donors will go into the blood bank for the hospital and distributed to any patient, not just Neowell. However, Neowell must have an exact blood match so all regular donors to the hospital who have donor cards or are aware that they are O Positive R1R1 JKA are encouraged to donate their blood at Hospital Likas 4th floor in Kingfisher and inform Neowell’s mother, Selly Onong, 0107826955 immediately.

“The CM, as chairman of Yayasan Sabah, should clarify the Business Times report and not the Director of Forestryas there seems to be more behind the purported timber deal of some 80,937 hectares (199,995 acres) to be awarded to Permaju Holdings Sdn. Bhd. by Yayasan Sabah (YS)” said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, Chairman of STAR SABAH in response to the mere denial by the Director of Forestry to the news report of the alleged timber deal in the Business Times on Monday.

Ketua polis Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu, Asisten Komisioner Jauteh Dikun mengeluarkan kenyataan berikutan perhimpunan
Sabah Bangkit yang akan berlansung pada 12 Januari 2013 bertempat di Taman Chong Thien Vun pada jam 2.00 petang.
Dalam kenyataan tersebut, beliau menyatakan perhimpunan ini tidak mendapat sebarang permit daripada polia atau
mana-mana jabatan berkenaan yang seterusnya membawa kesalahan undang-undang mengikut akta perhimpunan aman 2012.

Respon penganjur perhimpunan-

Penganjur perhimpunan Sabah Bangkit adalah Gabungan NGO menuntut hak rakyat Sabah (GEGAR) menyatakan kita tidak mahu bertuhankan Akta Perhimpunan Aman. Kita yakin dan percaya, rakyat berhak duduk dan berada dimana2 sudut dinegeri ini. Kita rasakan, akta ini yang dibentuk selepas adanya perlembagaan yang menjamin hak berhimpun adalah rangka menghakis sedikit sebanyak hak berhimpun.

Neowell Vann Houtton, Age 12, urgent appeal for donation of blood type O Positive R1 R1

By Nilakrisna James

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah—An urgent appeal to the public is made to all those whose blood type is O-Positive to come forward and donate blood at Hospital Likas, Kingfisher, in Kota Kinabalu to save the life of 12 year old Neowell Vann Houtton, whose HB blood level is now at 6.7 and requiring urgent blood transfusion to save his life.

Neowell is suffering from thalassemia major and requires monthly blood transfusions but his rare blood type of O-Positive R1R1 means that access to the correct blood type is difficult. The normal HB level is 13 and Neowell’s blood level is now considered critical.

Former beauty queen-turned-MP Angelina Sondakh with her father, left, and her lawyer at a graft court in Jakarta yesterday where she was jailed for five years. Source: AP

INDONESIA'S Corruption Crimes Court has jailed Angelina Sondakh, the Australian-born government MP and former Miss Indonesia, for up to five years.

The conviction is another blow for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party, already reeling from the long-running scandal.

Population Re-Engineering

By Johan Bakri

Dear friends

This is of interest to those watching the development of Malaysia and Singapore I am currently reading two books in parallel:

1] The March to Putrajaya This is about the recent and current happenings in Malaysia. It is the first book I am reading as an e-book

2] Men in White. This is the history of Singapore for the last 50 years

The contrast is most enlightening; not that one has to read the books to know. The books spells out the minutiae that is not intended for the public eyes. Needless to say the former is banned in Malaysia.

STAR's Sabah Information Chief, Edward Linggu

“Sabah and Sarawak are equal partners with Malaya and not the 12th and 13th States and the Borneo Agenda is about the rights of Sabah and Sarawak and is not anti-Malaya or parochial” said Edward Linggu, STAR Sabah Information Chief, in response to Datuk Seri Panglima Wilfred Bumburing’s statement reported in the local media.

The Malaya Agenda is about the internal control and colonization of Sabah and the siphoning of Sabah’s rich resources, oil and gas and revenue. The Borneo Agenda advocated by STAR is about the seeking and restoring Sabah’s rights and autonomy and to manage its own rich resources. Treating Sabah as a colony and “fixed deposit” and taking 95% of Sabah’s oil revenue and 100% of its federal revenue is no longer acceptable.

Scientist Richard Dawkins' letter to his 10 year old daughter about the irrational world

The following is a letter that Dr Richard Dawkins wrote to his daughter when she turned 10. Richard is one of the world's most renowned scientists who is known for speaking out against the dangers of religion. This is a good read - Editors

To my dearest daughter,

Now that you are ten, I want to write to you about something that is important to me. Have you ever wondered how we know the things that we know? How do we know, for instance, that the stars, which look like tiny pinpricks in the sky, are really huge balls of fire like the Sun and very far away? And how do we know that the Earth is a smaller ball whirling round one of those stars, the Sun?

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak had announced two
bridges to be built in Tuaran for RM18 million,
but now it is RM16 million for one.

By Joseph Bingkasan

KOTA KINABALU: A Sabah pro-opposition MP is asking Chief Minister Musa Aman to explain why only now one of the two promised bridges is going to be built in Tuaran.

Wilfred Bumburing said there were supposed to be two bridges to be built along the Tuaran River both totaling about RM18 million but the Musa had only announced one.

“The announcement to build the sports complex and the RM16 million bridge connecting town and the villages around Sungai Damit areas is timely and most welcome. However, there are a few things that need to be clarified,” the former Barisan Nasional MP said in a statement yesterday.

Food for thoughts...

Compiled by Joe Fernandez
REALITY does not exist. Or does it?

What exists are illusions which appear as reality.

Is protein, for example, reality or a fleeting glimpse of something in transition? It's actually carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sometimes sulphur and phosphorous coming together.

All elements are actually from hydrogen.

Move before hydrogen and then you have plasma etc.

Star Sabah first anniversary

“STAR is no longer a “mosquito” party but a strong and significant political party in Sabah with a big following” said Datuk Dr.Jeffrey Kitingan, Chairman of STAR SABAH during STAR Sabah’s first anniversary last weekend.

“Compared to PKR which took six to seven years to get about 60,000 members, STAR has attracted 270,000 members within a short span of 12 months” he said.

BERSIH 2.0 supports Himpunan Sabah Bangkit 112 demand for free polls

BERSIH Sabah support any organizations, political parties and government who supports clean & fair elections.

BERSIH Sabah calls upon Sabahans who want clean and fair elections to join the Himpunan Sabah Bangkit rally on 12 January in Kota Kinabalu to press on the 8 demands of BERSIH 2.0.

BERSIH Sabah further urges the police and other authorities to ensure peace and order for the rally to take place. The government must uphold freedom of assembly enshrined in Article 11 of the Federal Constitution.

By Jason Matius
KOTA KINABALU: There is now serious talk spreading among the Sabah opposition parties concerning the effect of numbers in the political fortunes of political parties in Sabah . And to the opposition parties’delight, the numbers appear to point to the death knell of the Barisan Nasional in the next general election.

A series of texts messages and excited conversations concerning the number thirteen, which prophesying BN’s supposed impending fall, have been making their rounds among mainly opposition supporters here. These messages remind Sabahans of the fact that USNO, Sabah ’s first government, was defeated by Berjaya in 1976 (7 + 6 = 13), Berjaya was defeated by PBS in 1985 (8 + 5= 13), and PBS was toppled from power by BN in 1994 (9 + 4 = 13). Also interesting is that each of these three governments ruled for exactly nine years!

Stop bullying the Christians, warns Star Women Chief Melanie Annol

By Ezra Haganez
PENAMPANG : Yet another leader of the Sabah chapter of the State Reform Party (Star) has cried foul over what she called obvious religious discrimination against the native Christians in the state.

Sabah Star Women Chief, Melanie Annol, in a statement, said there had been increasing reports and claims that both the Federal Government and State Government willfully sidelined native Christians in job opportunities and promotions in public service and government-linked bodies in the state.

“Sabahans must wake up to the reality that they stand to lose everything – their country, their independence, their rich resources, their land, their economic opportunities and their cultural heritage – if they continue to remain silent and oblivious to these realities” said Datuk Dr.JeffreyKitingan, Chairman of STAR SABAH at the Launching of STAR’s campaign called “Selamatkan Sabah Tanah Airku” during STAR Sabah’s first anniversary celebration at SM KianKok, Kota Kinabalu on Sunday.

Malaya Federation masquarading as Malaysia Federation ?

Malaysia has an unwritten Constitution based on the Batu Sumpah and other constitutional documents like the written Constitution of Malaya, Malaysia Agreement, the Malaysia Bill, the Inter Governmental Committee Report, the Cobbold Commission Report, the 20/18 Points, Adat, the UN's Informal Survey on Malaysia, the Sabah and Sarawak Constitutions, the Dent/Overbeck Agreements with the Sultans of Brunei and Sulu, the Madrid Protocol of 1885, the Singapore/Malaya Merger through Malaysia proposal, the various British Committees which studied the formation of Malaysia etc etc long before Tunku Abdul Rahman announced it in May 1961 at a meeting with the Foreign Correspondents Association in Singapore.

Asking RM 1,500 is a decent human rights demand - S.Arutchelvan

I refer to the article Pakatan rejects RM1,500 wage proposal in FMT today and would like to reiterate that asking a wage of RM 1,500 a month is not outrageous nor it is without basis. Asking RM 1,500 for every worker is a decent wage proposal and decent wages are part and parcel of Human rights. Outrageous or being impractical would be to ask the pay of Maybank CEO which is RM 90,000 a month or Syabas CEO who earns RM 450,000 a month.

Today we do not question the massive income inequality and discrimination when it comes to the rich and powerful. The highest 20% of Malaysian earn 51% of the total income whereby the bottom 40% earn merely 14%. The poorest 10 percent only control 1.7% of the total income. Today we question why must be the lowest 20% should be paid RM 1,500 and give that as the reason why the economy is going to collapse.

PKR-led Pakatan Rakyat is greedier than Umno, claims a
Sabah opposition party leader frustrated with Umno
and Pakatan 'hegemony'

By Luke Rintod of FMT

KOTA KINABALU: UK-based NGO, Borneo’s Plight in Malaysia (BoPiMaFo) believes the only reason Malaya based parties are desperate to retain Sabah and ‘invade’ Sarawak is so that they can continue to decide which Umno leader would become the Prime Minister.

Daniel Jambun, who leads BoPiMaFo, said: “Umno wanted to go to Sarawak but its dream was shattered not because of Sarawak BN parties’ refusal but because of the people.

“If Umno spreads its wings to Sarawak, it would empower Sabah and Sarawak to decide who would be Umno president and eventually Prime Minister as both combined number of delegates from East Malaysia would have been the biggest to Umno’s annual assembly.

The cause and effect principle in the 'Allah' debate

In the last few days or weeks, we have seen a torrential debate around the word ‘Allah’ in the public domain. It’s still going on.

The issue is not new for it has been debated for nearly a decade, though of late, it has gained fresh momentum and intensity. Briefly stated, the Malay-Muslim community leaders have somehow developed the perception that ‘Allah’ is a holy word in Islam and is thereby to be used exclusively only by Muslims.

Christians in Malaysia have rights too

By Queville To

There is an assumption among politicians at the national
level that no matter what they say about the Christians,
the latter wouldn’t dare respond to assert their rights,
says Daniel John Jambun.

KOTA KINBALU: Christians in the country should not be afraid to assert their rights as Malaysians in matters concerning their faith, said Sabah STAR.

In a statement issued here, party deputy chairman Daniel John Jambun said politicians who get involved in the debates on religion in Malaysia were behaving as if the Christians have no feelings and no rights as Malaysians.

“It is ridiculous that many non-Christian leaders are talking about various religious issues as if the Christians are emotionally dead about matters affecting their religious rights,” Jambun said.

Penganjuran Himpunan Sabah Bangkit adalah satu manifestasi daripada Himpunan besar

Oleh Harieyadi Karmin
Koordinator GEGAR merangkap Pengerusi Penganjur Himpunan Sabah Bangkit

KOTA KINABALU:Penganjuran Himpunan Sabah Bangkit adalah satu manifestasi daripada Himpunan besar-besaran yang bakal diadakan di Kuala Lumpur pada 12 Januari 2013. Pada tarikh yang sama juga, kita ingin mengambil semangat dan aura kebangkitan rakyat Malaysia ini, kita sahut dengan kita anjurkan Himpunan untuk rakyat Sabah agar rakyat pun dapat bersama merasai kebangkitan rakyat ini. Ditegaskan, kita adalah NGO. Gabungan NGO Menuntut Hak Rakyat Sabah (GEGAR) mengambil inisiatif menjadi penganjur kepada himpunan ini selepas kita mengadakan siri perbincangan dengan kawan-kawan NGO yang lain. Kita memandang, diperingkat negeri sabah juga kena ada satu gerakan dan bentuk cara menyatakan hak rakyat. Tujuan sebenar himpunan ini diadakan adalah kita ingin menyatakan dan menuntut hak-hak yang kita mahu sebagai rakyat. Rakyat negeri sabah dan rakyat Malaysia. Terpulang pada individu, mahupun kumpulan-kumpulan, datang dan tuntutlah hak anda. Hari tersebut kita jadikan sebagai hari tuntutan rakyat.

We are pleased to inform that STAR Sabah successfully celebrated its 1st Anniversary on 06 January 2013 at SM Kian Kok Hall, Jalan Tuaran, Kota Kinabalu, with its Christmas and New Year Open House.

The festivities were attended by more than 5,000 people from all walks of life including STAR Sabah's supporters from all over Sabah which was held after its 1st Anniversary where a 10kg cake with a Map of Sabah showing 5 Divisions, Marudu, Kinabatangan, Segama, Trus Mardi and Kinabalu which STAR will implement as part of its administration reforms in the new State government.

UCAPAN DATUK DR JEFFREY KITINGAN SEMPENA SAMBUTAN ULANGTAHUN STAR DAN PELANCARAN KEMPEN “SELAMATKAN SABAH TANAH AIRKU”

TEMA UCAPAN:
“SELAMATKAN SABAH TANAHAIRKU”

Dewan Utama, SM Kian Kok Kota Kinabalu
6th January 2013

Salam hormat, salam Ini Kali Lah, Salam Borneo Bersatu dan Salam Reformasi.

Terima kasih kepada Pengerusi Penganjur,

Selamat datang kepada semua pemimpin STAR di pelbagai peringkat, para jemputan dan semua pejuang STAR, anak anak pribumi Sabah yang saya percaya sudah berjuang sepenuh jiwa raga untuk menyelamatkan Sabah.

“The Star Reform Party (STAR), Sabah will be hosting its Christmas and New Year Open House on 06 January 2013at SM Kian Kok Hall, JalanTuaran, Kota Kinabalu, starting at 12.00 noon to celebrate Christmas and to welcome the 2013 New Year” announced Guandee Kohoi, Deputy Secretary General, cum Organizing Chairman of the Open House celebrations in a press statement released today.

How can we be happy on the eve of UMNO agenda to disenfranchise all Sabahans?

The new year brings with it one clear and present danger to the peace loving people of Sabah. They are facing the likelihood of the electoral system being changed in such a way that the legitimate Sabah voter will be outnumbered by “illegals” instant voters created by UMNO rigging of the electoral system.

Last year (2012) PM Najib's many visits to Sabah were more than just to show his love and concern for the welfare of Sabahans.

In fact he was discussing with Sabah UMNO and organising the re-arranging of the voting pattern in Sabah.

Malaysia Federation has failed

By Dr Jeffrey G. Kitingan

2013 will most likely be the beginning year of Correction, Restoration and Renewal, while 2012 was the peak of Malaysia’s manipulative politics, said political activist and STAR Sabah Chairman, DatukDr. Jeffrey Kitingan.

The Fall of Malaysia as a Federation
Malaysia was envisioned to be a great new Federation when three infant nations (Singapore, North Borneo and Sarawak) were forced by circumstances (due to national security, post-World War II consideration and de-colonization) to be rushed into a merger with Malaya by a 1963 agreement (the Malaysia Agreement) with many pre-conditions. Under the circumstances, Malaysia was a confusing concept right from the start.

“The Star Reform Party (STAR), Sabah will be celebrating its 1st Anniversary on 06 January 2013 at SM Kian Kok Hall, JalanTuaran, Kota Kinabalu, starting at 10.00 am” announced Guandee Kohoi, Deputy Secretary General, cum Organizing Chairman of the Anniversary celebrations in a press statement released today.

STAR Sabah was officially launched on 06 January 2012 and since its launching it has worked tirelessly the past year throughout Sabah promoting the BORNEO AGENDA, which was first promoted by the United Borneo Front (UBF), and educating and raising the knowledge and awareness of Sabahans of the rights and special position of Sabah in Malaysia and the wayward treatment of Sabah and Sabahans by the powers that be, as well as advocating the restoration of Sabah’s rights and position as an equal partner.

By Ezra Haganez
PAPAR : Public figure Patrick Sindu is quitting State Reform Party (Star) to join a Peninsular oppsosition party, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR).

He will do so at a PKR function at 2pm in Kampung Sungkadon, Papar tomorrow (Jan 5, 2013).

"There is a ceremony on the resignation of Star members in P175 Papar tomorrow, to be witnesed by PKR President, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail," said one of his text messages intercepted by Borneo Herald today.

Ketua Parti Reformasi Negeri (STAR) negeri Sabah
itu juga meramalkan perubahan besar akan berlaku
pada lanskap politik negara.

By Luke Rintod of FMT

TAMBUNAN : Ketua Parti Reformasi Negeri (STAR) negeri Sabah, Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan, berkata tahun 2013 merupakan tahun untuk membetulkan kesilapan, perubahan dan pemulihan bagi rakyat Sabah.

“Tahun ini akan menjadi tahun pembetulan, perubahan dan pemulihan bagi kita semua, sebab sudah banyak yang salah perlu diperbetulkan,” katanya sambil meramalkan perubahan besar akan berlaku pada lanskap politik negara.

Jeffrey berkata demikian dalam ucapannya sempena sambutan Krismas dan Tahun Baru beliau yang diadakan di Tambunan Village Resort Centre (TVRC) dekat sini semalam.

Some intresting facts about Christian in India

Compiled by Joe Fernandez
There were over nine million Christians in Kerala in 2001. They consisted of Orthodox Syrian Christians 2,511, 833; Syrian Orthodox (Jacobite) 1,285,000; Syro-Malabar Catholics 3, 494, 223; Marthomite 700,000; Syro-Malankara Catholics 344, 342; Church of South India and others 1, 000, 000.

Christians mostly converted Jews and locals known together as Nazranis were the only religion in Kerala till the Buddhist, Nambudiris (Brahmins), and Arab Muslims landed much later. This is based on the historical evidences available in Kerala from Temples, Mosques, Buddhist caves, Copper plate Cheppeds, Crosses with Pahlavi writings available with the Christians etc. Their religious practices, names, customs and costumes are unique and are very much similar to that of the Jews and Nambudiris.

Family members of a man who was found dead after spending three nights in a police lock up said they do not believe the police's claim that he died from a fall.

death in custody nagarajan 301212

Odd job worker K Nagarajan, 32, was arrested on Dec 21 for alleged drug related offenses and was placed in the Dang Wangi district police headquarters lock-up.

He was found dead on Monday before his scheduled court appearance.

According to his uncle M Krishna Murthie, the family was unable to accept the police version of events.

"How could someone die by falling in the lock-up? How is that even possible?" he told a press conference, organised by Teratai state assemblyperson Jenice Lee today.

Malaysia Electoral Reform Programme (MERP): Open Letter to Prime Minister and Opposition Leader of Malaysia

Y.A.B. Dato' Sri Hj. Mohd Najib bin Tun Hj. Abdul Razak, 02 Jan 2013

Perdana Menteri Dan Menteri Kewangan

Telefon: 03-8888 8010 / 03-8888 3410

Fax: 03-8888 7711 / 03-8888 0142

E-mail: najib@pmo.gov.my / ymbk@mof.gov.my

Alamat: Pejabat YAB Perdana Menteri
Blok Utama
Bangunan Perdana Putra
Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan

62502 Putrajaya

cc Dato' Sri Anwar Ibrahim,

Ketua Pembangkang Parlimen Malaysia.

An Open Letter for the Prime Minister and Pakatan Rakyat's consideration:

This letter details the processes necessary to achieve a Free and Fair Electoral System. It challenges both the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader to rise above politics to co-operate for the people's benefit and welfare.

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“Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan and STAR Sabah N.32 Tambunan will be hosting its Christmas and New Year Open House at Tambunan Valley Recreation Club (TVRC), Tambunan, on 01 January 2013 starting at 4.00pm. to celebrate Christmas and to welcome the New Year 2013” announced Guandee Kohoi Organizing Chairman of the Open House in a press statement released today.

Jalibin Paidi, STAR Divisional Head for Ranau

RANAU : Consumers in Sabah should expect some unpleasant surprises as the new year sets in with the Government's plan to implement the minimum wage of RM800 per month across the board.

The direct immediate effect of this minimum wage policy, to be in force from January 2013, are an increase of production cost for all employers in the state, already burdened with the highest cost of living in Malaysia.

Please expect increases of prices of goods and services, anything from 20% to even 200% as the employers would definitely pass the cost to consumers at large.

Dissatisfied Umno members believe Najib Tun Razak and
Rosmah Mansor are the party's "main liabilities"
that threaten the future of Umno.

Source

The recent 66th Umno general assembly sent out clear signs of increasing dissatisfaction among delegates with Najib Tun Razak’s leadership and that a decision must be made before the 13th general election.

Since Najib took over from Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as PM in early 2009, the former’s leadership has been directionless. He has been inconsistent and indecisive with his policies.

Though Najib is not as weak as his predecessor, he has nothing better to offer – no good leadership traits and no political and economic models on nation-building.

Umno members, from top to bottom, are very concerned about the party’s future.

Leaders from Malaya should not teach Sabahans what is
the meaning of racial harmony as we in Sabah have had
the most harmonious relationship, says Yong Teck Lee.

By Luke Rintod of FMT

KOTA BELUD: Sabah Progressive Party president Yong Teck Lee has condemned political leaders from Peninsular Malaysia, including from the Pakatan Rakyat, who come to Sabah lecturing to the local people on how to unite and not be racial.

“Leaders from Malaya should not teach Sabahans what is the meaning of racial harmony as we in Sabah have had the most harmonious relationship,” he said.

“DAP leaders like Selangor Speaker Teng Cheng Kim who came to Sandakan recently should not tell us how to unite. It is in the peninsula that racial disharmony is prevalent,” Yong said in his speech at a family gathering of one of SAPP’s leaders in Kg Kebayau near here yesterday.

Jangan pandang rendah orang Sabah

Sumber

Kami tukar Usno, kami tukar Berjaya, kami tukar PBS,
kata seorang pemandu teksi rakyat Sabah.

PETALING JAYA: Ristol Nebeng agak kecewa kerana masih ramai rakyat Malaysia yang menganggap rakyat Sabah masih tidak matang berpolitik serta muda dibeli dengan janji-janji manis dalam pilihanraya yang bakal menjelang tiba.

Pemandu teksi yang berasal dari Sandakan ini memberitahu bahawa anggapan sedemikian sudah lama dilemparkan oleh pendududk dari Semenanjung termasuk rakan-rakannya sendiri.

Ristol berusia dalam lingkungan 40 tahun bekerja sebagai pemandu teksi sejak 15 tahun dan sekarang tnggal di Cheras di Kuala Lumpur. Beliau sudah berkeluarga dan mempunyai lima anak antara 10 dan 20 tahun. Isterinya berasal dari Tawau, sabah.

Thought you'd enjoy this!
It's one you want your Children and Grandchildren to read.

They won't believe this happened, but it DID.

Harry & Bess
(This seems unreal.)

Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.

Declassified documents pertinent to Borneo, found in
the British archives, indicate that Putrajaya's
policies may be running foul of the unwritten
constitution of Malaysia.

byJoe Fernandez

Former Sabah Chief Minister Mohd Harris Salleh has never failed to appear from time to time as a bundle of contradictions to the extent of even embarrassing his own party leaders.

Harris, in his defence, may be said to mean well and even acting in good faith but often this argument is nothing more than the proverbial fig-leaf.

The man simply can’t be allowed to get away with it too many times. It creates not just bad but dangerous precedents. Both Harris and former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad appear to be birds of a feather in more ways than one.

However Harris isn’t even facing the remotest danger of being hauled up by Umno — assuming he’s still a member of the party given his penchant for sponsoring mosquito parties including Usno 2006 which is awaiting “registration” — on disciplinary charges for bringing it into public disrepute. This Mother of All Charges, with apologies to Saddam Hussein, is sure to cook anyone’s goose for good.

Former Chief Minister Harris Salleh's latest comments
are indicative of how disengaged Sabah leaders, both
past and present, are from the man on the street.

KOTA KINABALU: Ask almost anyone in Sabah, especially those in the Chinese business community, and they’ll tell you the state’s economy is in a bad way and will be so for the foreseeable future.

Sabah’s prized assets are in greedy hands. Its golden crop – oil palm – is losing its lustre in the commodities market, its tourism lure is messy, the prices of goods and services have gone up, property prices have sky-rocketed and where jobs are available wages are low and the infrastructure remains creaky and basic.

With all this pointing to deepening economic woes, you’d think that the state’s politicians who have rarely been so unpopular would be cautious about throwing stones at glass houses that they are living in. But no, its still business as usual.

An NGO says this Christmas is the time for Najib
to ponder and really hear the Christians on the
issue of fairness and justice.

By Luke Rintod of FMT

KOTA KINABALU: Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has been asked to stop his “public relations stunts” and instead deal with the biased treatment his federal administration has meted out to Christians in Sabah and Sarawak.

Demanding that Najib “walk his talk”, a local NGO, Borneo’s Plight in Malaysia Foundation (BoPiMaFo), said the PM’s “nice words” in his Christmas message yesterday, rang “hollow as far as sincerity and truth is concerned” when compared to the “real situation” in Malaysia affecting Christians.

The foundation’s president Daniel Jambun said that in Sabah especially, the “Christian community continued to be increasingly marginalised and victimised by loads of actions from Najib’s ruling party Umno.”

It apparently takes only two hours to process a
new Mykad at the Immigration Department in Sabah's
Federal Administrative Complex, claims DAP.

By Queville To

KOTA KINABALU: Why is the Immigration Department in Sabah processing new Mykads and change of addresses? And when did the National Registration Department (NRD) appoint the Immigration Department to handle Mykads in Sabah?

Posing these question, Sabah DAP said it was tipped off by the members of the public that the process of changing to the new MyKads and address could be done at the Immigration Department in the Federal Administrative Complex here and that the procedure took only two hours.

“It is being done at the Immigration Department, which is suppose to only handle passport and work pass. Since when is the Immigration Department also doing the job of the National Registration Department?” the party’s Tanjung Aru chief, David Chong Ket Sui asked.

Is it any wonder that poverty is still prevalent
in the resource rich states of Sabah and Sarawak
after 45 years in Malaysia?

History will tell us that alliances between states are entered into to serve strategic, economic and the national interest of their people.

More often than not these alliances are driven by political leaders who dream of greater glory and national advancement that the sum of such an alliance may bring.

History will also tell us that no nation can survive an alliance with another for too long when the interest of its people are exploited and taken advantage of by the another.

Such is the situation that the people of Sabah and Sarawak now feel they are in – the same Sabah and Sarawak that joined with Singapore and Malaya to form that new nation of Malaysia.

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