June 10 ‘victory’ for Lajim-Anwar?

If Sabah's Lajim Ukin and Wilfred Bumburing join Anwar Ibrahim's team, then PKR will have two more MPs on their side in the next Parliament sitting.

KOTA KINABALU: Lajim Ukin, the influential Umno warlord in the south-interior of Sabah, is said to be “definitely” ditching the party to join not the Sabah People’s Front (SPF) as rumoured, but PKR.

M’sia staring at recession with Greek euro exit

Syed Jaymal Zahiid

Investors are predicting a Greek departure by early 2013 that may trigger a global financial crisis, and Malaysia cannot escape from the repercussions.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is facing the threat of a second recession in just four years should troubled Greece leave the euro zone, which economists and analysts now say is likely.

Dubious names in 2012 electoral rolls

TENOM - Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) claimed that the voters' list in the electoral rolls for the first quarter of 2012 contained many dubious names.

Its deputy president, Datuk Eric Majimbun, said many of the names in the list did not have the parents' names, thus giving the impression that they are foreigners issued with the Malaysian citizenship through the back door.

Last chance for Sabahans

 Myles Togoh

The fear that one day Malaysians will wake up and find that they no longer have control of their country is already happening in Sabah.

It used to be that if you wanted a quiet, almost idyllic place to live, you come to Sabah. And they came, thousands of them, from neighbouring countries along with those from Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia.

FGVH bakal jatuh ke tangan Yahudi?

Zainal Abidin Nor

Peruntukan 4.9% saham FGVH kepada sebuah syarikat Yahudi, Louis Dreyfus melebihi peruntukan 2.5% kepada kesemua jumlah 112,635 peneroka di negara ini.

Kontroversi penyenaraian Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad (FGVH) semakin hangat apabila PKR mendakwa para peneroka hanya diberi peruntukan sebanyak 91 juta saham atau 2.5% dari jumlah keseluruhan saham di bawah Tawaran Awam Permulaan (IPO – Initial Public Offering).

Suhakam: Govt should not appeal NCR cases

KUALA LUMPUR: The Government should not appeal court decisions which favour and recognise the customary and land rights of the orang asli in the peninsula and indigenous people in Sabah and Sarawak.

“In my view, if the Government is serious about respecting the land rights of indigenous peoples, it should not have appealed in some of the cases,” said Suhakam commissioner Jannie Lasimbang.

Nama meragukan dalam daftar pengundi suku pertama 2012

TENOM - Daftar pengundi suku pertama 2012 didapati mengandungi terlalu banyak nama meragukan, kata Timbalan Presiden Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) Datuk Eric Majimbun.

Katanya, banyak nama yang tersenarai dalam daftar pengundi itu tidak mempunyai nama ibu bapa sehingga menimbulkan keraguan bahawa mereka itu adalah orang asing yang diberi kerakyatan melalui pintu belakang.

20 Perkara masih sah kata SAPP

TENOM - Perjanjian 20 Perkara yang menjaga kepentingan Sabah apabila negeri ini bersetuju turut serta menubuhkan Malaysia pada 1963 masih lagi sah, kata Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP).

Presiden SAPP Datuk Seri Panglima Yong Teck Lee berkata, Perjanjian 20 Perkara itu sah sampai bila-bila kerana tidak ada tamat tempoh.

“Malangnya, di Sabah ada pemimpin tidak sanggup pertahankan hak Negeri ini.

Star says no Malaysia without 20 Points

KOTA KINABALU - The State Reform Party (Star) is taking the position that there's no Malaysia without four important constitutional documents and/or conventions viz. the 1963 Malaysia Agreement (MA63), the 20/18 Points, the Inter Governmental Committee Report (IGCR) and the Cobbold Commission Report (CCR).

It's not possible to ever ignore, drop, do away, annul and/or amend these documents or claim that they have already been incorporated in the Malaysian Constitution and/or alternatively overtaken by events, whatever that means, said the party in a statement.

Felda shares ‘reserved’ for Umno cronies?

Syed Jaymal Zahiid

PKR claims that Umno cronies and Felda employees will receive more shares than settlers.

PETALING JAYA: PKR claimed today Putrajaya has earmarked more shares for rich Umno cronies than settlers in the planned controversial initial public offering (IPO) of Felda Global Ventures Holdings Sdn Bhd (FGVH).

20 Perkara Tidak Lupus Ditelan Zaman

TUMBUK..... Yong sedang menumbuk padi bersama pemimpin SAPP sebagai simbolik merasmikan Pesta Kaamatan.

TENOM: Presiden Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) Datuk Seri Panglima Yong Teck Lee menyifatkan kenyataan Speaker DUN Sabah, Datuk Seri Salleh Tun Said mengenai isu 20 Perkara sebagai tidak menghormati kedaulatan serta menyisihkan hak asasi rakyat negeri ini kerana menganggap isu tersebut tidak sah; kononnya sudah menjadi sebahagian daripada Perlembagaan Malaysia.

Kempen ‘Keluar Mengundi, Lawan Penipuan BN’

Mohd Farhan Darwis

KUALA LUMPUR : Bersih akan kembali kepada fokus utama mereka menuntut pilihan raya adil bersih, kali ini dengan merantau ke seluruh pelusuk tanah air bagi kempen mengajak pengundi berdaftar keluar mengundi ketika pilihan raya umum ke-13 (PRU13) yang dijangka tidak lama lagi.

Badan pemerhati pilihan raya itu akan memulakan kempen "Keluar Mengundi, Lawan Penipuan" bermula Jun depan dengan memberikan fokus utama di kawasan pedalaman.

UMNO Leaders won’t bother Sabah being called poor

SIPITANG: If there is no deterrent to BN government, Sabah would likely to remain a poor state in Malaysia. In as far as UMNO leaders are concerned they aren’t perturbed by such title. That is why SAPP dare enough to challenge by filing a lawsuit on Borneonisation issue.

Two days ago High Court of Kota Kinabalu dismissed the application made by Federal Government and State Government to strike the suit. That is good enough for SAPP, said Hj Amde Sidik, Deputy President of SAPP.

Jangan bimbang bantuan terus kekal selepas BN tumbang

TENOM: Ahli Majlis Tertinggi Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) Roger Stimin mengingatkan rakyat bahawa mereka tidak perlu gusar atau bimbang berhubung bantuan yang mereka terima sekarang ini daripada kerajaan BN akan hilang selepas BN tumbang pada PRU-13 dan digantikan kerajaan baru.

Beliau berkata, kemudahan bantuan yang mereka terima sudah menjadi dasar kerajaan walaupun kerajaan ditukar berulangkali tetapi sekiranya pembangkang ditakdirkan mengambil alih tampuk kerajaan dasar tersebut tidak akan berubah malah akan berterusan.

Star denies lacking in vision and mission

KOTA KINABALU: The State Reform Party (Star) has denied allegations by the Deputy Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat, Ronald Kiandee, that the party “has no vision and mission, lacks ideas and is struggling to the extent of harping on the same old ideas”.

Star, in a press statement, clarified that it’s a party of the young generation with a clear vision, mission, objectives, and goals and “this is reflected in its calendar of activities” or the Vimoga concept.

Borneonisation suit - People have right to sue

People have right to sue over 'Borneonisation' - High Court

by Kelimen Sawatan

KOTA KINABALU, May 26, 2012: The High Court dismissed an application by the federal and state governments to strike out a suit brought by a former policeman and a former teacher seeking several declarations relating to the Borneonisation policy.

Nurul Izzah: Ceramah video the best proof

Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar countered Umno’s allegation that it was PKR’s provocation that led to the fracas on Thursday night’s ceramah, saying there was video proof.

The PKR vice president said the best proof to the actual events that resulted in the ceramah being pelted with eggs and stones was in the video recording by reporters covering the ceramah.

“The best proof is the video recording,” said Nurul Izzah (right).

Sipitang, a dumping ground for foreign labourers

SIPITANG - Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) said Sipitang has become a dumping ground for foreign labourers from Nepal and India.

"Their presence was visible in the Sipitang town nowadays, said Hj Amde Sidik, who is the Deputy President of SAPP.

Amde, who is also South Zone and Constituency Liaison Committee Chairman for N28 Sindumin said these foreign labourers are recruited by Sabah Forest Industries.

Road to nowhere

Sabah villagers outraged by road to nowhere - The current government has done poorly in terms of maintaining Sabah's roads and rural infrastructure, unlike their predecessors, Usno and PBS regimes claim villagers.

PAPAR: Outraged Dusun villagers from kampungs within the vicinity of the controversial Mini Estate Sejaterah (MESEJ) project in Kg Kinolosodon are demanding to know why the government has neglected to maintain the roads in the villages but see it fit to build a new road to nowhere.

Land Sale Mania in Kg Banting?

SIPITANG -There has been a kind of land selling mania going on in area surrounding the RM4.6 billion Ammonia and Urea Project –SAMUR, especially in Kampong Banting, Hj Amde Sidik, the Deputy President of SAPP, said when meet the people in Kg Luagan, Sindumin last night (24/06/2012)

He feels something must be done like, giving advice to kampong people in order not to make a harsh decision selling their land to people who are there to exploit the situation.

Star: One to one fight ideal, but not necessary

KOTA KINABALU: The State Reform Party (Star) shares the sentiments of the Democratic Action Party (Dap) that the possibility of one-to-one fights in Sabah to take on the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) at the forthcoming 13th General Election is non-existent.

However, Star begs to differ with the Peninsular Malaysia-based national opposition party on why “it’s not possible to strike a deal with the self-glorified and unrealistic Star”.

Hari-hari Terakhir DAP di Sabah

Ching Wai Sim

Sikap suka mencari fasal pemimpin DAP yang selama ini mengamalkan sindrom politik longkang dan sampah akan menyebabkan Ketua Parti itu di Sabah, Jimmy Wong Sze Phin terpaksa menghitung hari-hari terakhir DAP di Sabah.

Tinjauan rambang yang dilakukan Sabahkini.net di kawasan parlimen Kota Kinabalu dan DUN Sri Tanjung, Tawau mendapati para pengundi sudah mula mengabaikan DAP daripada senarai parti pilihan mereka setelah segala aduan kepada DAP memerlukan keprihatinan BN untuk diselesaikan.

SAPP: BN Has No Clue on SAS

SAPP Youth Exco member Clement Lee has called on the UMNO led-BN government to explain the failure to elevate the SAS to its original value, 14 years after the financial crisis in 1997-1998, even when all the counters in BURSA and Unit Trusts price have recovered to its original value or higher.

Based on the latest SAS price updated on 21 May 2012 remained at RM0.3067 (NAV per unit) as reported from www.sahamsabah.com.my.

Penampang State Library being left to rot

PENAMPANG - Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) has criticised the State Government for leaving Penampang State Library building to rot.

Information Chief, Chong Pit Fah said that with the present state of the building at Donggongon Town, it would not be long that another state library building is declared unsafe.

"We are puzzled why the government is not bothered with the upkeep of an important facility for the Penampang district. Kota Kinabalu City has already lost its library.

SAPP: Umno's underhand tactics revealed

SIPITANG - Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) feels that something very fishy going on why UMNO is so confident in taking back Selangor when every indicator shows otherwise, said its Deputy President Hj Amde Sidik at a SAPP get together in Mesapol last night.

"I've received news from my PR friends in Peninsula who told me there are about 150,000 'New Sabahans' now stationed in various parts in Peninsula. They are the new recipients of new Mykads.

SEPA Lahad Datu Appreciation Dinner

LAHAD DATU - Sabah Environmental Protection of Sabah had organized an Appreciation Dinner and Environment Photography Exhibition in Lahad Datu at Dewan Sri Perdana on Sunday 19th May 2012 in order to appreciate those who had help in lahad datu during the NO COAL campaign.

The appreciation dinner that was chaired by Yyonne Chew was a success where about 400 had attended.

Sabah Pengeluar Sawit Ketiga di Dunia

Jailani Hassan

LABUAN : Jika Sabah merupakan sebuah negara, ia merupakan pengeluar kelapa sawit ketiga terbesar di dunia dan merupakan petunjuk penting mengenai peranan yang dimainkan oleh kelapa sawit dalam pertumbuhan negeri ini setakat ini dan apa yang ada untuk masa depan.

Menurut Lembaga Minyak Sawit Malaysia (MPOB), pada 2009, Sabah mempunyai kawasan penanaman kelapa sawit terbesar berbanding negeri lain, seluas 1.36 juta hektar daripada 4.69 juta hektar keluasan tanaman di seluruh negara.

Opposition parties should share burden and difficult seats

TAWAU - Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) has called on opposition parties not only to share burden but also on difficult seats.

Its president, Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee, said opposition parties should not choose safe seats only but also share the difficult ones.

"SAPP has already made known we are taking one third of the parliament seats and two thirds of state seats and we have agreed in principle but we also have to share the burden, even the difficult seats," he said yesterday after the annual general meeting of SAPP Sri Tanjung, Apas, Balung and Merotai branches.

Forcing illegals to swear in Allah's name to vote BN and to keep it a Secret!

Iskandar Dzulkarnain

Wanita PKR has said that it has proof that illegal immigrants registering with the Home Ministry’s 6P amnesty programme have been made to swear an oath that they and their families will vote for Barisan Nasional come polling day.

Wanita PKR chief Zuraida Kamaruddin had brought to the party evidence in the form of a written statement requiring them to pledge allegiance to Umno and BN. The statement which reads:  

Politik Semporna Mula Membadai

SKANDAL.....Apakah Skandal Seks Shafie Apdal yang akan didedahkan Dayangku Intan menjadi penamat kesombongan Shafie atau Naib Presiden UMNO ini terus GAH di persada politik tanah air?

SEBILANGAN besar penduduk-penduduk yang tinggal di pesisir pantai dan kepulauan Semporna yang dibelenggu kemiskinan serta kedaifan hidup telah bertekad untuk tidak lagi memberikan undi kepada tiga Adun dan Ahli Parlimen Semporna pada PRU-13.

Menurut mereka hanya kroni-kroni, saudara mara serta kaum kerabat Wakil Rakyat sahaja yang mendapat pembelaan istimewa, terutama mendapat tanah dan projek; sedangkan rakyat biasa masih dirantai kemiskinan.

Illegal logging in Crocker Range in Ulu Kimanis

By Dr Nicholas James Guntobon

PAPAR :  What I am about to reveal is just a tip of an iceberg but enough to raise doubt on the seriousness of the ruling party in managing state affairs vis-a-vis illegal loggings, water catchments, environment, poverty eradication programme and even life of our citizens.

In Kampung Kinolosodon, Papar, in the Ulu Kimanis area on the Crocker Range is a coming up Mini Estet Sejahtera (MESEJ) project by the government. But this project under the Kimanis which is represented by Foreign Minister Anifah Aman, many things were not right.

Najib 'supply and demand' led to the country’s staggering debt to the tune of RM446 billion

KG Publicist

PAPAR : A former senior vice president of Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) who had joined opposition State Reform Party (Star) has likened Prime Minister Najib Razak as victim of a “supply and demand” situation within the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN).

Baharudin Nayan who is now vice chairman of Star Sabah and head its Pantai Manis state constituency, claimed that Najib, denied of two-third majority in Parliament since 2008, has increasingly been merely supplying to the demands of his unscrupulous colleagues in BN.

Lack of political will to resolve illegal immigrants issue – Sipaun

KOTA KINABALU: There appears to be a lack of political will on the part of the government to resolve the perennial issue of illegal immigrants in Sabah, said Human Rights Promotion Association (PROHAM) president Tan Sri Simon Sipaun.

“Is it surprising that until today the problems associated with illegal immigrants continue to persist? I believe the answer is no,” he said during the Roundtable Discussion on Citizenship Issues at Universiti Malaysia Sabah here yesterday.

Sabah tops list for Hepatitis B

Illegal Immigrants attributed to the spread of Hepatitis B disease in Sabah

Majority of the 2.5 million Malaysians detected with liver cancer are men, Malaysian Liver Foundation president, Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said yesterday.

He said Sabah and Sarawak topped the list for hepatitis B in the country and attributed it to, among others, the influx of foreigners in both the states.

Gerakan objects to stalls outside Ambiga's house

Gerakan's objection will not be of any effect since this plan was sponsored by Umno.

Gerakan has urged petty traders to shelve their plan to set up stalls in front of Bersih co-chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan's house on Thursday and Friday to protest alleged loss of trade during the Bersih 3.0 rally in Kuala Lumpur on April 28.

Menukar kerajaan pilihan rakyat jika gagal memenuhi aspirasi rakyat

TENOM - Ahli Majlis Tertinggi (AMT) Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) Roger Stimin menegaskan bahawa ketiadaan kuasa otonomi kerajaan negeri menyulitkan para wakil rakyat disesuatu kawasan untuk melaksanakan sesuatu pembangunan yang mendesak. Ekoran masalah itu ia terpaksa tertangguh beberapa bulan sebelum kelulusan mutlak diperolehi dari kerajaan Pusat.

In Malaysia, the poor gets poorer

By Mohd Ariff Sabri Aziz

All those swanky acronyms linked to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's economic transformation agenda has done little except push up the prices of the poor man's meal.

Have you been to the market lately? Let me enlighten you on some costs. Ikan Kembong (fish) is now RM17 a kilo, can you believe this?

One kilo will give you five to six fishes. In the kampung where a family is easily seven members, it means only one meal because growing children have healthy appetites.

BN’s offer: Money and madness

Selena Tay

PM Najib is forced to shower the rakyat with crumbs of goodies to obtain votes because the people are fed-up with BN's underhand tactics.

The Malaysian political scenario has taken a turn towards madness in recent weeks. Consider these three instances:

Mazu statue left to rot

Mazu statute in Kudat halted by Umno Musa was left rotting for 5 years now

KUDAT - Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Vice President Datuk Wong Yit Ming said the BN government is not practising what it preaches as regards to freedom of worship and  religion.

He cited an example like the Mazu statue project which was halted by Chief Minister Musa Aman, was now left to rot under the sun and rain for five years now.

Ambiga deeply shocked on stories of police brutality

The horror endured by 19 victims of police brutality during the Bersih 3.0 rally has shocked the electoral watchdog's chairperson.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bersih co-chairperson S Ambiga has heard countless accounts of police brutality taking place during the April 28 rally but she was still “deeply shocked” by those of 19 victims who shared their stories with the media this morning.

“I feel terrible,” Ambiga told FMT after the media conference at the Kuala Lumpur Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH).

Manji scorches fatwa council's anti-Bersih edict

By Hazlan Zakaria

Controversial Uganda-born Canadian author Irshad Manji hit out at certain muftis and clerics, including those in Malaysia's National Fatwa Council, which she said are trying to impose their own mores and dogma upon the populace.

"Muftis, imams and clerics of various stripes love to tell us what we are to believe; in the course of telling us this, they also want us to adopt a particular identity.

Star blames BN for TB Outbreak

RANAU :  The recent revelation by Sabah Health Department of a possible TB-infested Sabah is alarming, and it is irresponsible for both the Federal and State governments not to take drastic action to alleviate the situation.

To State Reform Party (Star), four deaths weekly of TB alone and 10 new cases of it being detected every week in Sabah is a serious matter as though curable, TB's treatment affect the productivity in the state. In other countries TB are almost unheard of nowadays.

‘The despot’s dark side revealed’

RK Anand

MCA claims that the Tunku Aziz episode has revealed both the dark sides of DAP and its secretary-general Lim Guan Eng.

PETALING JAYA: The tussle for Chinese votes continues to see MCA leaders drawing their swords against DAP, this time over a Malay leader’s exit.

Two leaders from the Barisan Nasional component party launched a salvo on their opponent over the resignation of DAP vice-president Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim.

US company investing for oil production in offshore Sabah

Can Najib unilaterally decides all things including investment in Sabah and how does Sabah benefit especially oil production investment??

NEW YORK: ConocoPhilips, among the world’s biggest oil producer from the United States, has invested US$1.5 billion (RM4.6 bilion) in Malaysia so far for oil production in offshore Sabah.

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak said the company’s investment was to realise the 300,000 barrels per day production target in 2016.

TB in Sabah killing four people weekly

Illegal immigrants in Sabah are being blamed for the fast spreading tuberculosis disease which was once almost eradicated.

KOTA KINABALU: The uncontrolled influx of illegal immigrants into Sabah has spawned a lethal infectious disease, once thought to have been almost eradicated.

Tuberculosis, more commonly known as TB, is killing people on a weekly basis in Sabah and the spread of the disease is being pinned on the immigrants who have been pouring over its borders for years.

Anger mounts over RM127b refinery for Johor

Raymond Tombung

Why is a RM127 billion refinery being built in Johor when it is not an oil-producing state?

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah State Reform Party (STAR) is blowing hot over the planned RM127 billion oil refinery in Johor, claiming it would be an “incalculable” economic loss to Sabah.

Describing the federal government’s decision as “unreasonable” STAR chairman Jeffrey Kitingan said: “If the federal government was sincere about developing the Borneo states which have contributed tremendously to the national coffer by giving 95% of its oil all these years, it would have decided to build the refinery in Sabah or Sarawak.

Sabah DAP and SAPP in secret talks?

By Azman Habu

It appears that Sabah Progressive Peoples Party (SAPP) have agreed to give way to Sabah DAP in Karamunting and Sandakan constituencies in the east coast.

KOTA KINABALU: A secret midnight meeting between Sabah DAP and SAPP leaders last weekend may have breathed new life into a potential election pact between the two opposition parties who have been at each others throats for months.

Umno enslaving minds of Malays

Comment by Mohd Ariff Sabri Aziz

Malays today unite for causes and for ideals that are beyond what our prime minister and Umno can muster.

Umno thinks Malays are a herd of cows which they can herd into submission. How do my criticisms on what Umno has done to Malays constitute a reason for Malay disunity?

In addition, there are the usual invectives about my joining the DAP, which has caused Malay disunity. Please don’t try to impose your condescending views on me.

Diesel shortage grounds 150 fishing boats

KOTA KINABALU: About 150 fishing boats are unable to go to sea since last Friday due to alleged red tape in the management of subsidized diesel supply.

According to Kota Kinabalu Fishing Boat Owners Association chairman Simon Hong (seated centre, with the association committee members ), the supply of subsidized diesel that was introduced in 2006 has been helpful in reducing costs for fishermen but the decision to suddenly stop the supply has badly affected their fishing operations.

Butt dance 'sexist', decries Ambiga

Hazlan Zakaria

Bersih co-chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan has decried what she agrees are elements of sexual harassment in the ‘butt dance’ in front of her house by a group of armed forces veterans.

“There is, yes. I think because I am a woman, that has a lot to play with what they are doing outside my house. It is sexist... the bully mentality,” Ambiga (left) told Malaysiakini in an exclusive interview yesterday.