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- 'BN=perintah' formula wins Sarawak rural seats
- COMMENT If Pakatan Rakyat is to progress in the next election, it must expand its support among rural and suburban communities.
- TI divided over Taib's dam congress
- ANTIDOTE Transparency International is facing flak over its support for the World Congress of the International Hydropower Association.
- Why the 'urban tsunami' stopped at the coast
- ANTIDOTE The BN choke hold on the rural communities can't be sustained through exploiting their resources with little in exchange.
- Sarawak BN 'poised for victory', but is still desperate
- ANTIDOTE Signs of desperation emerges in S'wak in this parliamentary election, with state BN ministers fearing their fate is out of their hands.
- Let's 'Ubah', urges wounded land rights defender
- ANTIDOTE 'We must all change, open our eyes now,' says a Sarawak NCR land activist savagely attacked by encroachers into native land.
- Why MACC's probe on Taib has been fruitless
- ANTIDOTE The anti-graft panel has claimed that weaknesses in the MACC Act 2009 are impeding investigations into the Sarawak CM.
- NCR lifeline for Sarawak's natives
- A new scheme by the state PKR pledges true partnership for native landowners in inclusive, participatory development.
- Can Taib hold on if Pakatan wins?
- ANTIDOTE A small-majority Pakatan win will have Taib under intense pressure to resign his chief minister post, although he would probably cling on.
- Sarawak CM expects to lose four to eight seats
Taib Mahmud's prediction for BN contrasts with PKR state leader Baru Bian, who feels Pakatan will win 11 to 13 parliamentary seats out of 31 at stake.
- NCR assault victim's family remains defiant
- Sarawak land right activist Surik Anak Muntai will not give up his cause despite being attacked with machetes and clubs.
- Attacker of Sarawak NCR defender walks free
- Iban native customary rights defender Surik anak Muntai is furious that police have released an oil palm firm executive who had caused him injuries.
- Sarawak Pakatan aims to bag a dozen seats
- ANTIDOTE Young Dayaks, with smartphone access to websites like Malaysiakini and Sarawak Report, have brought dissent home to the longhouses.
- Baram dam dampens Sarawak BN's spirits
- Sarawak BN is likely to lose Baram parliamentary seat to PKR in the polls, due to the fallout from the Baram dam project.
- Iban furious at attack on land rights defender
- Surik anak Muntai, 66, was slashed and beaten while waiting to pick up his son from school and this could be a factor in the GE.
- BN's 'jingoism dividend' from Sabah invasion
- COMMENT Incumbent governments do well in elections held around the time of an armed conflict, which can give a weak cabinet a flattering facelift.
- Who are the dogs of war in Sabah?
- COMMENT M'sia has been incompetent in dealing with the Sabah conflict. Ending it requires dialogue with all warring parties involved.
- Would Sarawak be Godless without Umno?
- COMMENT Religious affronts are likely to turn Sarawakian non-Muslim voters - and some Muslim voters - against the BN, in a tight GE.
- Can palm oil fuel a Molotov cocktail?
- ANTIDOTE Police must establish if the Molotov attack on the home of PKR's See Chee How was related to his work as an indigenous land rights lawyer.
- The Penan and the 'richest man in M'sia'
- While the Penan are among the poorest people in Malaysia, the Sarawak chief minister is said to have RM45 billion in his name.
- Taib's hard-won apology a pyrrhic victory
- ANTIDOTE Winning this libel campaign over the HK firm Regent Star affair may resemble shifting deck chairs on the Titanic.
- National carrier's version of national history
- ANTIDOTE Malaysia Airlines' inflight magazine gives a potted history of Malaysia Day, with a couple of howlers standing out.
- A Penan chief at the Merdeka parade
- ANTIDOTE Nearly twenty years later, Tua Kampung Jawa recounted the Independence Day parade like a strange dream.
- Net censorship climbdown - until the next time
- ANTIDOTE The Najib Abdul Razak administration is teetering through another legislative U-turn, thanks to a revolt in cyberspace.
- Sime Darby scandal implicates youthful Datuk
- ANTIDOTE It lays bare the anatomy of corrupt land deals in Sarawak that have enriched the state's political elite and their acolytes
- Sarawak slow to announce cholera outbreak
- Lack of response and publicity on over 150 cases in Bintulu will hinder efforts to curb the outbreak, say critics.
- New spoiler for electoral tussles in S'wak
- ANTIDOTE Enter the ‘BN-friendly’ Sarawak Workers Party which is targeting six PRS-held rural seats in the next parliamentary polls.
- UN reprimand for M'sia over Taib?
- ANTIDOTE A coalition of NGOs has complained about ‘lack of action’ on graft and money-laundering allegations against Taib Mahmud.
- 'Penan Peace Park is for all of us'
Established to protect the upper Baram forests from logging and deforestation, it has met with hostility from the authorities.
- Vote for BN, for God's sake
- ANTIDOTE Gov't flip-flops and mistiming of a biblical reference seem to have contributed to Lawas MP's shaky political future.
- 'Penan incest' claim triggers anger at tabloid
- ANTIDOTE There are several jarring details in the Metro Ahad report, as well as an unrecognisable racial profile of the Penan.