SABAH: LAND BELOW THE WINDS OF CHANGE

Sabah: Land Below the Winds of Change

The voting trend speaks for itself: within East Malaysia, dissatisfaction against BN does not necessarily translate into a swing for PKR – unlike Peninsula Malaysia, the party will have to do more than win on 'protest votes' here.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Shashi Karu

31/03/2013: Over the online media, the atmosphere is palpable and almost sweating with suspense. As we near election day, bloggers, commentators and the occasional pundits are beating with increasing intensity to the same rhythms of change: “it’s now or never”, “ubah”, “ini kalilah” and of course, how could you not forget, “ABU!” [Asalkan Bukan Umno].

Analysts alike are expecting a repeat of the March 2008 Tsunami, but this time it’s back with revenge: Peninsula Malaysia is expected to see bigger gains to Pakatan Rakyat - with the bastions of BN in Negeri Sembilan, Pahang and Johor finally caving in to the 'winds of change'. As the tides of politics continues on its charging path, Anwar Ibrahim inches ever closer to Malaysia's first "opposition" Federal government.

CHINESE NAVY MAKES WAVES IN SOUTH CHINA SEA

Chinese navy makes waves in South China Sea

USA TODAY

Analysts: Country's bold move spurred by 'U.S. inaction.'

(Photo: Gao Yi, AP)

BEIJING 27/03/2013– The appearance of a Chinese navy flotilla at an island chain 1,120 miles from its home shores is a clear sign that the new Communist regime is moving to enforce its claims to the entire South China Sea, experts said Wednesday.

James Shoal is 50 miles from the coast of Malaysia, one of several countries that have appealed to the United States for help in countering China's aggressive attempt to seize 1 million square miles of fishing and energy resources.

HASUTAN PERKAUMAN BERIKUTAN ISU PENGGANAS SULU DI LAHAD DATU, SABAH?

Hasutan perkauman berikutan Isu Pencerobohan di Lahad Datu, Sabah - Sulu Asree Sug!

ASREE SUG

BEKAS PENGARAH JABATAN PELAJARAN SABAH, DATUK DR MUHIDDIN YUSIN SERTAI KEADILAN

MUHIDDIN YUSIN SERTAI PKR?

Oleh : BALQIS ABDULLAH

KOTA KINABALU 26/03/2013: Bekas Pengarah Jabatan Pelajaran Sabah, Datuk Dr Muhiddin Yusin menyertai KEADILAN bersama-sama 318 orang lagi. Beliau menyerahkan borang keahlian kepada Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim pada program Himpunan Harapan Rakyat di Star City Convention Hall di sini, malam kelmarin.

Lebih 5,000 ahli KEADILAN menyaksikan penyertaan Dr Muhiddin yang terkenal kerana berani menegur Kementerian Pelajaran berkaitan masalah sistem pendidikan di negeri itu.

Beliau juga tidak puas hati dengan layanan Kerajaan Persekutuan pimpinan Umno BN terhadap Jabatan Pelajaran Negeri Sabah berikutan tidak diberi dana secukupnya.

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CHANGE MEANS THAT WHAT WAS BEFORE WASN'T PERFECT. PEOPLE WANT THINGS TO BE BETTER. - ESTHER DYSON

POLIS KESAN KIRIMAN WANG DARI SABAH KE JOLO BIAYAI KUMPULAN PENGGANAS

Lahad Datu: Polis Jejak Individu Kirim Wang Ke Pulau Jolo Bantu Pengganas

LAHAD DATU 26/03/2013: Polis mengesan berlaku pengiriman wang ke Pulau Jolo, Filipina oleh beberapa individu dari Sandakan dan Semporna, Sabah bertujuan membiayai kumpulan pengganas di sana.

Timbalan Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar berkata, pasukan keselamatan kini memantau rapi perbuatan individu itu yang mengkhianati negara dan tangkapan akan dilakukan apabila tiba masanya.

Beliau berkata, perbuatan menghantar duit ke Pulau Jolo untuk membantu kumpulan pengganas adalah kesalahan yang amat berat dan mereka yang terbabit boleh dikenakan tindakan undang-undang yang membawa hukuman penjara seumur hidup atau mati mandatori.

"Jadi, saya nasihatkan mana-mana individu yang terlibat supaya segera menghentikan tindakan mereka kerana perbuatan itu adalah satu pengkhianatan kepada negara dan polis tidak akan teragak-agak mengambil tindakan,"

REVENGE OF THE SABAH BN LOSERS?

Revenge of the Sabah BN losers?

Native Sabah ministers – Pairin Kitingan, Bernard Dompok and Joseph Kurup – have backed opposition SAPP's call for all Sabah ICs to be recalled and re-issued.

PENAMPANG 25/03/2013: Project IC is coming back with a vengence to wreak havoc in the Umno-led Barisan Nasional Sabah government.

Twenty years ago, Umno rode on the coat-tails of the project to usurp political power from the local native parties. The plan then was for Project IC to strengthen Umno’s hold on the state but the blowback from the dubious scheme could now unseat the party – permanently.

Three of the ruling coalition’s component parties – United Pasokmomogun KadazanDusun Murut Organisation (Upko), Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) and Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) – are edging away from Umno to soften a voter backlash over a host of problems facing the state.

PAKATAN'S SABAH MANIFESTO

Pakatan's Sabah manifesto

Kota Kinabalu 24/03/2013: Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Sabah launched its 40-point People's Manifesto for the coming 13th General Election, here, Saturday.

The manifesto has a similar theme and is consistent with the national PR manifesto, its Orange Book and alternative PR Budget 2013.

However, there are a few policies that are very focused and unique to Sabah and the people.

CRACKS APPEARING IN SABAH UMNO?

Cracks appearing in Sabah Umno?

Luke Rintod

A Sabah NGO - United Suluk Community Organisation (USCO) - has, strangely enough, decided to move into ‘active’ politics.

KUDAT 22/03/2013: Speculation is high that former deputy chief minister under a PBS-plus government, Amir Kahar Mustapha, is about to quit Umno and join an opposition group.

The former Banggi assemblyman, who is the eldest son of ex- Sabah chief minister, the late Tun Mustapha Harun, is said to have been approached by the members of the Suluk community here to represent them in the opposition in the coming election.

AQUINO GESA PROSES RUNDINGAN BERHUBUNG TUNTUTAN KE ATAS SABAH

Aquino Gesa Proses Rundingan Berhubung Tuntutan Ke Atas Sabah

MANILA 18/03/2013: Presiden Filipina, Benigno Aquino pada Ahad berkata proses rundingan adalah satu-satunya jalan untuk menyelesaikan tuntutan Kesultanan Sulu terhadap Sabah dan beliau turut mengkritik tindakan kumpulan bersenjata menyerang Malaysia.

Aquino turut mengecam konspirasi terancang pihak tidak bertanggjungjawab yang menghantar pengikut-pengikut kesultanan Sulu ke Sabah kerana ia telah mengancam keselamatan 800,000 rakyat Filipina yang tinggal dan bekerja di negeri itu.

Bercakap di Akademi Elit Ketenteraan di Filipina pada Ahad, beliau turut mengutuk tindakan pengikut Sultan Sulu, Sultan Jamalul Kiram III yang membunuh dengan kejam sembilan anggota pasukan keselamatan di Malaysia.

PRICES SOAR AS SABAH SEALS BORDERS

Prices soar as Sabah seals borders

Azman Habu

The ongoing security sweep in Tawau, Lahad Datu and Sandakan has dampened 'informal trade ties' between east coast Sabah and southern Philippines.

TAWAU 10/03/2013: The sealing off of the maritime border between Sabah, the Southern Philippines and Indonesia – something that Malaysian authorities had in the past said was extremely difficult due to the proximity of both – is having an unexpected effect.

The prices of contraband cigarette have risen in the east coast over the last couple of days suggesting that the naval blockade has cut off the traditional illegal sea routes into Sabah which had enabled the multi-million ringgit trade in smuggled goods to flourish.

ISSUE OF DECOMMISIONING OF FIREARMS BY THE MILF FIGHTERS STILL UNDER DISCUSSION WITH THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT

MILF chief: We will lay down arms when Bangsamoro govt in place

JOHOR BARU 26/12/2012: The decommissioning of firearms for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fighters will only begin once the Bangsamoro government is in place and operational in Mindanao, southern Philippines.

MILF chairman Al-Haj Murad Ebrahim said that at this point in time the issue of decommisioning of firearms by the MILF fighters was still under discussion with the Philippine government.

SABAH HASIL PENGELUARAN 2,790 TAN DURIAN SETAHUN

Sabah hasil pengeluaran 2,790 tan durian setahun

KOTA KINABALU 24 Dis. - Jumlah pengeluaran hasil durian di Sabah pada masa ini menunjukkan perkembangan memberangsangkan dengan menyaksikan hasil pengeluaran kira-kira 2,790 tan durian setahun.

Timbalan Pengarah Lembaga Pemasaran Pertanian Persekutuan (FAMA) negeri, Mohd. Shukri Doel Majalin berkata, sebanyak 10 daerah dikenal pasti sebagai kawasan pengeluaran hasil durian berpotensi di negeri ini.

"Daerah yang terkenal dengan hasil durian di negeri ini ialah Ranau, Sipitang, Tenom, Sandakan, Tawau, Kota Marudu, Sandakan, Tawau, Beaufort dan Keningau.

HARTA MEWAH DIKTATOR SELAMA 22 TAHUN DILELONG KEPADA UMUM

HARTA MEWAH DIKTATOR DILELONG KEPADA UMUM

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ialah bekas Presiden Tunisia yang diterajang keluar oleh kuasa rakyat Januari 2011 yang lalu. Beliau dan isteri kini diberi suaka politik oleh kerajaan jahanam Saudi Arabia yang memang dari dulu gemar memberikan perlindungan kepada bekas diktator beragama Islam yang zalim kepada rakyat. I dunno what the hell is wrong with the Saudis. They should return these dictators back to their homeland to face justice.

VOTER-BUYING CAUSING RIFT WITHIN SABAH BN

Voter-buying causing rift within Sabah BN

Recent disclosures of Malay voters in the Sepanggar constituency being offered RM500 each to change their voting address has raised eyebrows in the Sabah Umno circle.

KOTA KINABALU 17/12/2012: Extraordinary things are happening in Sabah as the 13th general election looms. The old methods of splitting voters to establish communal enclaves that benefited the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition are now coming under further scrutiny by its own leaders.

Reports that opposition-held areas here are being “re-populated” to change the voter demographics, a popular tactic that has got by with a wink and a nudge in the past, has curiously alarmed certain Umno leaders who have called for an investigation.

DUA MAYAT DIPERCAYAI DIBUNUH DIJUMPAI DALAM PARIT DAN BAWAH JEMBATAN

Mayat dengan kesan tikaman dijumpai dalam parit

PARIT di hadapan sebuah bengkel kereta di mana mayat mangsa ditemui.

SANDAKAN 07/12/2012: Mayat seorang perempuan dengan kesan tikaman ditemui di dalam parit di hadapan sebuah bengkel kereta di kawasan perindustrian ringan Sedco, Batu 3 Jalan Utara di sini awal pagi kelmarin.

Mangsa, Arwidah Misran, 19, berbangsa Kagayan ditemui oleh orang awam yang lalu-lalang di kawasan itu kira-kira jam 6.55 pagi.

Pemangku Ketua Polis Daerah Sandakan, Superitendan Fadzil Mohd Ali berkata mangsa masih lengkap berpakaian dan pemeriksaan awal mendapati terdapat enam hingga tujuh kesan luka tikaman pada badan mangsa.

PIHAK BERKUASA DIMINTA BANTERAS KEGIATAN WARGA ASING NIAGA DI PASAR

Pihak berkuasa diminta banteras kegiatan warga asing niaga di pasar

TAWAU 08/12/2012: Pihak berkuasa tempatan diminta membanteras kegiatan warga asing yang berniaga di pasar-pasar di daerah ini, baik di pasar yang dikendalikan oleh kerajaan mahupun yang diswastakan.

Ahli Parlimen Kalabakan Datuk Seri Abdul Ghapur Salleh berkata, kegiatan tersebut dilihat boleh menjejaskan pendapatan para peniaga tempatan kerana mereka terpaksa bersaing dengan ‘orang luar’ dalam melaksanakan perniagaan mereka.

Menurutnya, beliau ada menerima aduan daripada para peniaga tentang perkara berkenaan seperti kewujudan para peniaga dari negara China di Pasar Sin On.

RUSH FOR ‘WHO-WANTS-TO-BE-A-CANDIDATE’

Rush for ‘who-wants-to-be-a-candidate’

The highly popular ‘who wants to be a millionaire’ television concept has taken a political twist in Sabah.

LAHAD DATU 12/11/2012: Foreign Minister Anifah Aman, the younger brother of Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman, once said something about “lucrative positions” in the Cabinet. He was naively confirming what many surmised.

So it is hardly surprising that scores of Sabahans want to be contestants in the upcoming 13th general election and some may even be forgiven for considering a new group as organisers of Sabah’s version of “who wants to be a millionaire” with an election slant.

Days after announcing its formation, the “Sabah Independent Candidates Sponsorship Body” has received 30 applications by wannabe electoral candidates in the upcoming 13th general election.

BADAN PENAJA CALON-CALON BEBAS HASRAT TANDING DI SEMUA 60 KERUSI DUN

Badan Penaja Calon-Calon Bebas hasrat tanding di semua 60 kerusi Dun

LAHAD DATU 9/11/2012: Satu kumpulan yang menamakan diri mereka sebagai Badan Penaja Calon-calon Bebas berhasrat untuk bertanding di semua 60 kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) dan 25 kerusi parlimen di Sabah pada Pilihan Raya Umum (PRU) ke-13 ini.

Pengerusi penajanya, Haji Datu Abdul Kadir Datu Mohd Yatim berkata, calon-calon mereka akan bertanding atas tiket calon Bebas dan akan menggunakan lambang yang disediakan oleh Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) .

“Kami terdiri daripada golongan profesional, korporat, badan akademik, badan keagamaan dan juga bekas pegawai kakitangan kerajaan negeri dan persekutuan.

“Kita juga mempunyai badan penaja utama, namun ianya hanya akan diumumkan selepas parlimen dibubarkan.

PKR LANCAR LAMAN WEB DEMIRAKYAT.MY PERSIAPAN HADAPI PRU13

PKR Lancar Laman Web demirakyat.my Persiapan Hadapi PRU13

PETALING JAYA 8/11/2012: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) pada Khamis melancarkan laman web khas, www.demirakyat.my khusus untuk memuatkan berita-berita Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-13 (PRU13).

Pengarah Komunikasi PKR, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad berkata, laman web itu telah dilayari sebanyak 1,500 kali sejak ia dilancarkan 7 pagi Khamis.

"Laman web ini merupakan agenda internet yang komprehensif untuk memudahkan kami berkomunikasi dengan para pengundi dan menjana tenaga anda untuk membantu PKR dan Pakatan Rakyat mengharungi perjuangan dalam perlumbaan kami untuk membentuk kerajaan.

POOR ATTENDANCE AT APS LAUNCHING IN SEPANGGAR

Poor attendance at APS launching in Sepanggar

KOTA KINABALU 4/11/2012: The launching of the Angkatan Perubahan Sabah (APS) in Sepanggar near here on November 2 night ended in a total embarrassment for the movement.

Informers had confirmed that the launching, due to be officiated by Datuk Seri Panglima Wilfred M Bumburing, was attended by only about 50 people.

“In fact the group that came with Datuk Wilfred and Datuk Maijol (Mahap) numbered about 43 people, hence the actual locals from Sepanggar who attended were actually only about six or seven people,”