The palm oil industry in Malaysia may be operating on the wrong side of local and international conservation laws especially on the island of Borneo where vast tracks of rainforests have been mowed down destroying the habitat of unique species.
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The Grinch – Malaysian style
It’s farcical, but carol singing is a national security issue in Malaysia from this year. Prime Minister Najib Razak’s spanking new Peaceful Assembly Bill 2011 that was passed last month has bared its teeth and caused astonishment and fright in equal measure. The law is being put to use to control Christmas carollers and the [...]
Malaysian Spring rising?
The arrest of 13 suspected terrorists, six of them foreigners, in Tawau last month under the Internal Security Act (ISA) has added urgency to calls to untangle the mess that is Sabah before it traps the whole country which it is threatening to do. While it’s long been known that not all illegal immigrants crossing [...]
Investigating a famed ‘covert’ plot 20 years later
Malaysia’s ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition government may have just acknowledged that it is in a fix in their “fixed deposit” state of Sabah as the country heads for elections. That signal came this week when a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on electoral reform supported a long-held opposition demand for a Royal Commission of Inquiry [...]
Sideshows start as Malaysian elections loom
While there is that motion picture-like air of a “coming to a polling booth near you, the nation’s next blockbuster – the 13th General Election” – in the rapidly changing Malaysian state of Sabah, the people remain unmoved and cynical. “It may be a new election but like some movies the plot never changes … [...]
A confederacy of dunces
The veil over the audacious theft of a state from under the noses of its citizens is slowly being lifted two decades after after the deed was done. Confidential cables from the US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur to Washington acknowledging the chicanery have thrown more light on how the proud, independent-minded people of Sabah were [...]
Punitive measures
A leaked US Embassy cable has carried an explosive charge against former Election Commission (EC) chief Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman – that he admitted to issuing more than 60,000 fake Malaysian identity cards to foreign workers in Sabah in the 1990s on Umno’s orders. The cable, posted on WikiLeaks, quotes former Malaysians for Free and [...]
