London’s Mayor, Boris Johnson, has been sweating round KL this week, trying to drum up yet more business for the British capital, but making no mention of human rights…

When a tragic accident hits the news, such as the shocking explosion that caused injury and death to miners in Selantik this weekend, it is normal for the name of the company concerned to be reported….

The Vice-President of PKR, Tian Chua, drew a substantial body of listeners in London on Sunday night…

The multi-award winning Radio Station, Radio Free Sarawak (RFS), has today announced that, after months of deliberate jamming and disruption, it is suspending its shortwave broadcasts…

  Radio Free Sarawak was honoured Tuesday at Australia’s University of Queensland in Brisbane with the 2014Communication for Social Change Award. Only one organisation wins this prestigious award for excellence in communication each year and RFS was delighted to pick up the title from a strong field of candidate projects, working on providing communication tools

A team from the independent radio station Radio Free Sarawak (RFS) last week confronted the Belgian broadcast agent, who has been implicated in jamming their programmes. Ludo Maes supplies short wave antennae and transmitters from his business near Antwerp and acts as a broker for radio stations looking for shortwave broadcast slots across the world. However,

Sarawak Report has obtained a copy of Anwar Ibrahim’s prime time interview last week with Sky TV’s Adam Boulton. The interview was broadcast on Sky News Tonight, the channel’s flagship evening news show at 8.30pm on Thursday 16th October.

After more than 15 years of broken promises, remarks by BN representatives in Belaga this weekend made clear they think the locals are completely stupid. In a meaningless and rambling speech the local Assemblyman, Liwan Lagang, announced that with regard to the promised compensation to the natives, who were forced from their lands nearly 20

The first in a series of films by the California based Borneo Project is released today. The NGO has worked for many years supporting Sarawak’s native communities and it points out the disastrous consequences threatened by Taib’s ‘brainchild’ SCORE project and his plans for 12 more mega-dams, starting with Baram. Borneo is the oldest rainforest

President Obama made a rousing speech against religious bigotry at the UN on Wednesday. He made clear that trends such as those developing in Malaysia, where non-Muslims are being increasingly treated as unequal and liberal thinkers as enemies of society by leading figures, provides a dangerous source of instability in a world trying to fight

Sarawak Report and others have worked to draw attention to corruption in Sarawak and Malaysia, which ranks as one of the worst places in the world when it comes to corrupt exploitation of the people by the governing elite. Our evidence and exposes have illustrated the problem time and again, where abuse after abuse has

Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak are inviting our online readers and listeners to take the opportunity of Gawai to bring information to their villages – and also to bring information back to us. There is a small prize raffle for all those who email us back the RFS Awareness Survey – the lucky winners

A nice stash of fat state construction contracts were awarded by Taib Mahmud to his own family companies during his last weeks as Chief Minister. His preferred option of ‘negotiated contracts’ over open tendering means that he effectively negotiated the terms with himself. As a result Kuching’s waterfront is being altered from its once scenic,

The team from the independent Iban language radio show Radio Free Sarawak (RFS) have won recognition in Australia, with a key award from the University of Queensland in Brisbane. The Communication for Social Change Award 2014 was designated by the university’s Centre for Communication and Social Change to the organisation as a whole. The other

The Australian Government has just given a foreign-owned company yet another in a series of huge subsidies to cut down the Tasmanian forest. Sarawak-based Ta Ann has received a $7.5million hand-out, making almost $45million in total over the past 7 years, even though the Malaysian company can’t seem to turn a profit on the business.

There is a common misconception amongst well-meaning westerners about why the jungle is being cut down, which the actual rainforest destroyers are pleased to preserve. These westerners imagine that the main driver of deforestation is pressing populations of local people, who have run out of habitat and need to tear down the trees to survive

This has to be the first sign that Taib Mahmud is losing his grip! No wonder he opened the State Assembly this week with talk about needing “heightened security” against “undesirable elements”. But these oil revenue rebels are from his own party and they are UNANIMOUS in ditching his unfair policies on Sarawak’s oil royalty.

Back in the 1990s Taib’s pet sister Raziah Mahmud and her ambitious third husband, the Lebanese Australian Robert Geneid, decided to build a jungle playground called Borsamulu, near the Mulu bat caves. The project became their grand dream together and no expense was to be spared. Indeed, in order to clear a path for incoming

Peter John Jaban, the founder presenter of Radio Free Sarawak has been named by the NGO Reporters Without Borders as one of the world’s “100 Information Heroes” to be celebrated for their work on this year’s World Press Freedom Day, May 3rd. The organisation, which campaigns for freedom of information, explains: “Through their courageous work

The British broadcasters who supply the shortwave programme Radio Free Sarawak (RFS) have condemned radio pirates, who are breaking international laws by jamming the nightly show. Shockingly, evidence gathered by the station’s monitors identifies Malaysia’s own public broadcasting station RTM (Radio Television Malaysia) as the likely culprit behind the attacks! This weekend, the London based

A reader of Sarawak Report has alerted us to the recent sale by the Governor’s ‘pet sister’ Raziah Mahmud of one of her million dollar properties in Sydney’s top billionaire enclave of Vaucluse. The mansion at No 38 Coolong Road covers over 1,000 Square meters. To boost the sale for this luxury mansion the Geneids

A major gaffe by Taib’s new puppet Chief Minister Adenan Satem made headlines in the Borneo Post today – and was then promptly pulled down from the online version. The print version, however, still carries the original wording of Adenan’s highly embarrassing remarks, in which he acknowledged that the only reason he did not ban

Sarawak Report can demonstrate that the statement by the Immigration Department that the leader of the Malay supremacist group Perkasa did not visit Sarawak last week is untrue. We have the proof of Ibrahim Ali’s own hand that he was indeed in Sarawak, because he personally signed for drinks and snacks at the Harbour View

After two weeks of what is generally judged as a disastrous mishandling of events, it appears that Malaysia Airlines has now committed a further act of gross insensitivity, according to exclusive information obtained by Sarawak Report…

Foreign Editors around the world have tended to shun the topic of Malaysia and its politics, judging it all as simply not lively enough to hold their readers. It has allowed the country’s deep weaknesses, propped up by petrol and palm oil billions, to go unnoticed and for fatuous ad campaigns like “Malaysia Truly Asia’

The growing criticism of the world media in the light of the Malaysian Government’s inept responses to the shocking disappearance of Malaysian Airlines 370 six days ago has prompted an unwelcome analysis of BN’s political system. After all, the catastrophe came the very day after the disgraceful conviction of the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim for

Malaysians are used to suffering under third rate leaders, promoted because of family not merit, and they are used to incompetence (or worse) being ignored or covered up by a compliant media. However, others are not. As the days have rolled by since the disappearance of Flight MH370, more and more countries with citizens on

Hundreds of millions of ringgit of public money have been spent by BN on foreign public relations. All that money and effort has now been wasted by one simple decision to make a martyr of the opposition leader. The world can no longer be gulled that Malaysia is a modern, moderate democracy, because it is

Malaysia’s Anti-Corruption Commission has made some key acknowledgements according to a recent interview with the Malaysian Insider. The investigators have confirmed that huge tracts of land and concessions were handed to the family members of Chief Minister Taib Mahmud, making clear that a crime has been committed against the state. They have gone further and

Forest Department staff, who are supposed to monitor the activities of timber companies, regularly concoct false reports from seaside hotels, instead of conducting genuine ground checks, Sarawak Report has learnt. Insiders have confessed to the practice, which they say is orchestrated by the major timber companies, who spend thousands of ringgit a week entertaining the

Insiders at the Bakun Power Plant have revealed that the second tallest dam in the world is running at just half its optimum generating capacity. The revelation came this week as the anti-Baram Dam Blockade marked its 100th day on Thursday. And it prompted protestors to question why on earth is Taib Mahmud pushing through 12

As the leaders of the wealthy nations and international finance community gather in snowy Davos for their annual discussions, one new leader from Africa has written an eloquent article in the UK’s Guardian Newspaper. Guinea’s Alpha Conde sums up the key problems facing certain warmer places in the world, like Guinea and Sarawak, whose people

The soaring Hollywood career of the PM’s stepson Riza Aziz has crashed back down to earth, with news from Los Angeles that the Academy Awards committee have decided to remove his name from the list of nominations for producer of the best film. In a highly unusual development the Academy chose not to accept the