Australia’s support for Taib Mahmud’s SCORE project is becoming ever more deeply questionable, as the corruption surrounding every project in which it has sought to be involved gets plainer by the day. The message should be coming through clear by now. If you do business with Taib Mahmud’s Sarawak then you are immersing yourself in […]
The Chief Minister is well known for his obsession with black magic and omens, despite his proclaimed Muslim faith, which bans both. Sinister black birds are known to been allowed to hop freely around his home in Damak Jaya, spooking guests. The basement is packed with shrines and bomoh artefacts, all part of Taib’s attempt
Yet another ministerial mansion has sprouted up in Kuching and it tells us all we need to know about the corruption of the state. The proud owner is Awang Tengah, the Second Minister for Planning in Sarawak and after a year of construction he has just moved in [..]
The huge homes belonging to Taib Mahmud’s political allies is one of the unanswered and glaring issues in Sarawak. How come so many ministers and YBs, who started on their political careers with no wealth at all, have ended up living in such style, when the salaries for public office are quite rightly modest? There
Fear of gangsters is widespread in Sarawak and with good reason. These are the operators outside the law who enforce the greedy land grabs and logging concessions handed out by Taib to his cronies. By using gangsters, Taib and his business partners avoid being directly implicated and can pretend to have nothing to do with
Many of the world’s worst dictators try to claim legitimacy through the ballot box, so that they can proudly claim that they are voted time and again into office by their ‘loving’ people. In fact, they cheat. Taib is one of these and probably the only person he is fooling is himself. The methods Taib
All human beings can understand justice. Where there is injustice it is up to our law-makers to legislate to prevent it and then for our courts to uphold those laws. But in Sarawak, where growing numbers of poor communities are being forced to desperate measures to save their lands and livelihoods, we often see the courts
Tens of thousands of families are being forced from their homes by Taib’s fanatical dam projects across the state.However, there is another equally devastating piece-meal process of eviction going on, as plantation companies continue to bully the longhouse folk from their native lands. As the Ibans of Rumah Niah dress for ‘war’, have Taib’s land grabbers pushed too far this time?
Another mega-corruption project has just been awarded to Sarawak’s ‘Construction YBs’. Sarawak Report has frequently exposed how a large number of elected YBs have become directors and shareholders of construction companies, which then benefit to the tune of millions of ringgit from public contracts handed to them by their political boss, the Chief Minister, Taib Mahmud.
We have learnt that hospital staff in Lawas were instructed by the local YB, Awang Tenggah (Taib’s favoured side-kick), to keep quiet about an outbreak of Dengue Fever last month. The extraordinary intervention occurred at an emergency meeting at the hospital during the week before the Lawas Festival, after several cases had been reported in
For half a century UMNO/BN and Taib have sucked out billions of ringgit from Sarawak’s natural resources. In return they have given cheap bribes at election time to the impoverished local people, who have seen none of the benefit of this wealth. But promises are even cheaper than bribes and BN politicians are therefore even
Today the Iban communities of Sebangan are celebrating yet another victory against Taib and the BN government of Sarawak. These people own the rights to one of the last remaining areas of un-destroyed rainforest in the region north of Kuching. However, Taib’s greedy sister Raziah could not bear to think of those trees still left
The UK has changed government 11 times since the date that Malaysia was given independence and in the same period France has had 20 Prime Ministers. However, during that entire 55 years UMNO/BN has grasped onto power, while at the same time calling Malaysia a democracy. The result has been predictable. The few families in
The Green Party in Australia is demanding explanations from Hydro-Tasmania about what exactly its subsidiary Entura is up to in Sarawak? Investigations by Sarawak Report have revealed that Entura, which acts as a consultancy arm of Australia’s publicly owned company, Hydro-Tasmania, has become deeply involved in a whole range of projects [..]
As all Malaysia now knows, BN/UMNO’s grip on power relies on the continuing support of two corrupted Chief Ministers in East Malaysia. Both Taib Mahmud and Musa Aman are up to their eyes in money stolen from their people and from the destruction of their home states through unsustainable logging and oil palm plantation. Many
If you follow the money, the real motive behind Taib’s mega-projects becomes clear. We can now expose how the Chief Minister has managed to ensure that his own son, Abu Bekir Taib, has won the jackpot contract for the current dam construction at Murum! [..]
Today Sarawak Report has decided to take a respite from investigative activity and to allow some pictures to speak for themselves. In a recent statement, the Taib-owned timber company, Ta Ann, has sought to refute concerns that it is responsible for environmental degeneration and human exploitation in Sarawak. It has also accused Radio Free Sarawak
The question marks over Taib’s pet mega-project, the billion dollar Bakun Dam, have just multiplied into a full-blown crisis for the so-called ‘CEO of Sarawak’. The global mining company, Rio Tinto Alcan, has just announced that it is pulling out of the much-touted aluminium smelter venture, SALCO [..]
Outraged readers of Sarawak Report have been queuing up to dish the dirt on BN’s Dirty Datuks over the past few days. We have received widespread information about corrupted practices from insiders, who are clearly sickened by the greedy YBs, who have been cheating their constituents for decades. And it seems that many of those
We can demonstrate that Malaysia’s Deputy Foreign Minister, the BN/SUPP MP for Serian Richard Riot, has also been involved in the disgusting practice of profiting out of projects meant for his own constituency. In this case a RM9.3million ringgit road building project has been awarded to a company he controls through his son, Akjaemura Jaya
Women in the West are given to grumbling about the ‘glass ceiling’ that prevents even the most qualified and hard-working females from getting top management jobs and directorships. However, their Sarawak sisters seem to have no such difficulties – as long as they are Datins that is. The ‘Super Datins’ of Sarawak seem to achieve
Former BN State Assemblyman, Lihan Jok, famously lectured his constituents that the Baram Dam was “a gift from God”. But, who does Lihan Jok mean by God? The Baram Dam is a man made project and it will destroy some of the last remaining areas of untouched beauty on God’s Earth. So, by ‘God’ was
Over the past few days we have exposed some of the corrupt hand outs that have benefitted BN’s Dirty Datuks. But, once someone has embarked on cheating their people to get rich, they don’t stop. They keep looking for more. So, we now present some more of the corrupt sources of income [..]
The Federal MP for Hulu Rejang is revealed as the Director and key shareholder of a company that was supposed to be owned by his constituents and which has received huge public contracts and timber concessions. Wargana Consortium Sdn Bhd, is also exposed for promoting illegal logging [..]
Over recent days, PRS leader James Masing has attempted to defend the indefensible regarding his political persecution of a disabled man and his admission that he and his deputy sought kickbacks for NCR lands, taken for plantations. So, we await his excuses over our latest information[..]
