UN General Assembly now asks Syria's Bashir Assad to step down

By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN of Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Arab countries pushed ahead Wednesday with a symbolic U.N. General Assembly resolution that tells Syrian President Bashar Assad to resign and turn over power to a transitional government. It also demands that the Syrian army stop its shelling and helicopter attacks and withdraw to its barracks. A vote is set for Friday morning.

The draft resolution circulated up through Wednesday takes a swipe at Russia and China by "deploring the Security Council failure" to act. Moscow and Beijing have used their veto in the smaller, more powerful Council three times to kill resolutions that could have opened the door to sanctions on Syria.

Money-laundering: Musa under pressure

What portion of the S$38 trillion transacted and transferred
across several countries belonged to Sabah?

By Calvin Kabaron
KUALA LUMPUR : As Malaysia faces a looming general election, Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman, an important ally of embattled Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, is increasingly being engulfed with questions of integrity and leadership issues.

Musa already lost two Members of Parliament from Sabah last week, and now the ongoing investigations on his own involvement in allegedly money-laundering activities are increasingly affecting his integrity and performance as leader of the poverty-stricken Sabah.

Observers both in Kota Kinabalu and here are of the opinion that the embattled Sabah kingpin would have no avenue to redeem his reputation as more in Sabah are joining the opposition and that incriminating data on the money laundering kept pouring out in websites, blogs and leaflets.

The parallel investigations going on in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Switzerland on the money-laundering case have proven to be too much to Musa and the state leadership.

Who really is Lajim’s ‘tuan’?

Has Sabah MP Lajim Ukin really defected or is this all
just another shadow play engineered by both
Najib Tun Razak and Anwar Ibrahim?

KOTA KINABALU: Whatever the game Umno chief Najib Tun Razak and PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim are playing in Sabah, it is going to be fiery and those who will feel the heat at the ballot boxes are the locals whose minds are being toyed with, spirits tested and loyalties horse-traded.

The reverberations from Barisan Nasional MPs Lajim Ukin and Wilfred Bumburing’s defections – if indeed they are defections – are hitting hard at the walls of Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman and his counterpart in Sarawak Taib Mahmud.

Cut from the same cloth and soaked in Mahathir-mentored politics, neither Najib nor Anwar seems to really care about Sabahans or Sarawakians.

‘Lajim’s political calculation wrong’

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KOTA KINABALU: Beaufort MP Lajim Ukin quit the Barisan Nasional to join Pakatan Rakyat as he believes that the opposition front will topple the federal as well as Sabah state government in the 13th general election, a senior ruling coalition leader said.

“Lajim ditched Umno for Pakatan to be able to contest Beaufort and likely a state seat.

“Winning the MP seat will pave the way for him to be a minister in a Pakatan federal government or having a state seat, a ticket to be Sabah chief minister,” Sabah Umno liaison deputy chief Salleh Said Keruak said today.

Skandal Penyelewengan Wang HSBC – Masa Untuk Menjalankan Siasatan Ke Atas Salahlaku Musa Aman!

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Salah seorang pegawai tertinggi bank HSBC telah meletak jawatan secara sukarela semalam, sambil mengumumkan bahawa bank itu telah membisu seribu bahasa terhadap kegiatan memindahkan wang sebanyak $38 trillion, yang melibatkan Ketua Menteri Sabah, Musa Aman. Laporan dari pihak Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) mengenai wang sogokan pembalakan (suatu kes yang, menurut Najib Razak, boleh disabitkan dengan Musa Aman) mengandungi banyak maklumat mengenai penglibatan HSBC memproses berjuta-juta ringgit yang akhirnya menjurus ke dalam akaun-akaun bank milik Musa Aman.

Begitu juga, Sarawak Report telah mendedahkan maklumat terperinci mengenai siri-siri akaun HSBC yang dikaitkan dengan Musa Aman, yang akhirnya terpaksa ditutup dalam tahun 2006 dahulu.

Will banks recognise strata titles for longhouses?

By Joseph Tawie

KUCHING: The latest move by the state government to issue two longhouse with strata titles has brought on many unanswered questions, key among them is whether or not the commercial banks will recognise these ‘titles’ for loans and mortages and if this latest exercise was yet another political bid to mislead natives into an “illusory” sense of security.

A senior native customary right (NCR) lawyer here, Baru Bian said Housing Minister Abang Johari Tun Openg’s bid to issue strata titles for longhouses was also in contradiction with the statement made by the Land and Survey Department.

Bagi juga bonus kepada pesara JKKK dan Ketua Kampung

Oleh Peter Palalun Lagadan
KOTA BELUD: Selaku salah seorang bekas Ketua Kampung di Kadamaian dan mewakili suara ramai pesara Pengerusi JKKK dan Ketua Kampung yang mungkin berjumlah lebih seribu orang, saya mencadangkan kepada kerajaan negeri supaya mempertimbang memberi sekurang-kurangnya bonus kepada para pesara seperti kami.

Semua pesara lain telah mendapat pelbagai habuan dan bantuan dari kerajaan bagi mengenang jasa mereka tetapi apakah jasa dan perkhidmatan kami sebagai bekas Ketua Kampung dan Pengerusi JKKK langsung tidak bermakna sudah kepada kerajaan.

Malaysia Day's Janji Tak DiTepati Rakyat DiBohongi

What a East Malaysian think on the eve of Merdeka

 

 

In the past 55 years and more, they have made us poorer still

 

After more than 50 years of "Janji tak diTepati, Rakyat selalu diBohongi", Iet us say goodbye to UMNO BN. Is this coming GE 13 (PRU 13) the end of BN in Sabah? Sabahans must realise that they have replaced the white men imperialist's colonialism with brown skin UMNOputras.

 

 

Jeffrey: Land disputes leading to violence

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The Sabah government is yet to fully respond to the
people’s grievances on NCR land grabs.

PINANGAH: State Reform Party (STAR) has warned that the increasing number of land disputes in Sabah is showing signs of turning ugly and may eventually lead to violence if the government continues to turn a blind eye on them.

In his speech at a land rights demonstration here recently, Sabah STAR chairman Jeffrey Kitingan expressed his disappointment that the state government has been neglecting the people despite the fact that the problem has been happening for many years.

Anwar: Expect more surprises from Sabah

By Luke Rintod of FMT

TUARAN: Former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim today asked Sabahans to save Sabah and Malaysia by voting out the Umno-led Barisan Nasional at the coming general election.

“I know what I’m talking about. I have been a finance minister for eight years and during my tenure it was “pay, pay” unlike under the current one which is just “debt, debt”,” he said alleging the BN has it wrong everywhere in its governance.