We'll resolve land ownership issue within 2 years if...

RANAU, Dec 13, 2011: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) said it will resolve land ownership issues in Sabah within two years if given the mandate from the people to form the State Government.

Vice President, Japiril Suhaimin said SAPP President Datuk Yong Teck Lee had shown that the party was capable in doing so when during his tenure as Chief Minister about 48,000 land application were processed and issued with titles.

"The land ownership problems in Sabah have been there for quite a long time and as though there is no solution to it," he said.

Would I Still Believe in Protocol?

Amde Sidek

I started my little journey to the Land Office in Kota Kinabalu. Upon arrival at the new building I approached the receptionists (three of them) at the counter, ground floor of the building.

‘I would like to make an appointment to see the Pengarah’ I asked. They pointed to the direction which I saw a big room partially glass wall and glass door (picture above). Inside there are many counters divided according to sections or units of the department. I picked a queue slip from the machine provided and sit down waiting for my number to be called.

Sabah Land Grabs

Corporate greed strikes again,villagers evicted

A well-connected company has destroyed their crops and forced villagers from their ancestral land.

KOTA MARUDU: The villagers have been tilling their land since colonial times but now they have to hang up their hoe and sickle because of corporate greed.

A company has moved into their ancestral land, bulldozed their fruit trees and crops and, to add insult to injury, tore down their houses.

We want straight answer, says group

KOTA KINABALU: Association of Sabah National Type Chinese School Chairman, Datuk Wong Yit Ming said he raised the Sabah United Chinese Chambers of Commerce (SUCCC) land issue for the interest of the Chinese community.

"I do not deny that I am a politician but I raised the issue up not to gain popularity as claimed by former SUCCC President, Datuk Sari Nuar," he said.

Farmers suffer due to damaged padi fields

BINGKOR assemblyman Justin Guka wants the related ministries to rectify issues over  the levelling of padi planting fields in the district which had been abandoned for years and causing Iocal farmers to lose their income.