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.