Sarawak

Sarawak Cable And Its New ‘White Knight’

Sarawak Cable was the centre of controversy a decade back as an emblem of the self-dealing management of the state by former chief minister and present governor Abdul Taib Mahmud. He liked to be called the ‘CEO of the State’ and handed the massive Bakun cable project to a company owned by his son. That company is now apparently failing badly….

FIX DODGY BAKUN BEFORE YOU BUILD AGAIN!

As Sarawak leaders stand on the brink of an announcement of plans for further dam building, a shocking report has confirmed that the monstrous Bakun dam is critically in need of repair along with others in Malaysia. This has to happen before a single stone is laid to choke more rivers in the state …..

Growing Mystery Over Taib Family’s CMSB Shares

Norway’s state bank has just bought a commanding shareholding of 54 million shares in CMSB which is a strikingly similar amount to the shares contested in a Taib family row. In June the Malaysian court barred Taib’s wife Ragad from selling them until the dispute was settled ……..

Human Trafficking Bust Lifts Lid on Migrant Worker Abuse In Sarawak

The terms ‘Human Trafficking’ and ‘Migrant Labour Abuse’ sum up slavery in the modern world. And, with a rich country to exploit and a low population to do the work, greedy and lawless criminal ‘entrepreneurs’ have been tricking people into just such slavery in Sarawak. Those in authority have for too long taken the money and turned a blind eye ……

Battle Of The Taib’s – What’s At Stake

It seems that all the Taib offspring, even the step-offspring, entertain fantasies of succeeding to his level of power and most certainly his wealth. Their suitability is another matter as they start to scrap amongst themselves……

Ragad’s Next Move Is A Landgrab! – EXCLUSIVE

Sarawak’s premiere land grabbing Taib family may be shocked to learn that ‘stepmum’ Ragad has been grabbing land off them. This comes just days after SR revealed that Taib had allegedly also signed over 50 million CMSB shares to his second wife ……

Blue Skies (BS) Thinking Comes With Lashings Of Greenwash In Sarawak

Almost daily a new ‘blue sky vision’ is promoted from the Sarawak ‘Premier’s’ office, as greedy businessmen troop through with their latest money-spinning projects for turning Borneo’s lifeblood into gold. ‘Green’, however, these plans are not. And, as ever, they present little care for the real needs of the increasingly impoverished and neglected indigenous people…….

Final Appeal Court Slams Sarawak’s Land Grab Tactics And Hints At The Elephant In The Room – CORRUPTION

After years, even decades, hundreds of Sarawak Land Grab cases are still wending their way through the courts, long after the native lands in question have been plundered and destroyed. The glaring issue in these David and Goliath battles is that the concessions themselves were almost without exception the product of corrupt cronyism and nepotism under the rule of the former chief minister and current billionaire Governor of the state, Taib Mahmud……….

PR Cat & Mouse Games By Pro-Samling ‘Sustainability NGO’, APS?

The mystery ‘NGO’, Advokasi Pribumi Sarawak (Sarawak Indigenous People’s Advocate), has complained SR “discredited” it by suggesting it was a PR outfit for the logging giant Samling. Why at the same time has the PR company behind the outfit pulled its client portfolio off the web and changed its contact numbers?….

Dirty Tricks By Samling’s PR Department?

When it comes to ripping out forests, dodging environmental restrictions and heavy handed tactics towards indigenous protests, the global timber giant, Samling, leads the field. However, when it comes to the subtler arts of communication, specifically disinformation known as ‘Black PR’, the Sarawak loggers appear out of their depth…..

KTS Says “Not Us”!

SR has received an anonymously written email, purporting to be from GT Plywood, angrily refuting that the activities in Baram described in our previous article were linked either to that company or to the wider group controlled by the KTS Lau family. So, will KTS give us a full interview about their actual operations? So far, no answer……

Fifty Years Of Native Abuse In Sarawak Must End

The latest Penan blockade against loggers in the Baram area, and the way it has been handled, highlights a host of injustices facing the native people of Malaysia which this new reforming government must start to tackle. They must begin by according indigenous peoples their most basic rights of identity, something that plundering state officials have been reluctant to do …..

GPS’s Drunken Disgrace!

Those who have conspired to thus beguile and trick their victims are no better than vile drug dealers who seek to suck the life blood from their clients……

Pass Round Hat To Pay Billionaires’ Bill!

Native Rights Campaigner Denis Along faces imminent jail if he cannot find the RM10,000 the courts have punished him for daring to contest the seizure of his community’s lands to build a luxury hotel for the Taib family….

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