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- How to create rally fatigue
- COMMENT Among others, the premier will have to initiate steps to overhaul the electoral system and its management.
- Police brutality hurts - but it hurts Umno most
- COMMENT The police have unwittingly brought Umno’s worst fear closer: that voters will punish Umno for its crimes, and its servants’, in GE13.
- Spring-cleaning S'wak on Saturday
- Environmental and native rights advocates will be out on Saturday, to embrace the Bersih 3.0 protest as their own.
- Masing: Never bite the hand that feeds you
- THE ANTIDOTE Sarawak's James Masing has infuriated the voters by urging them not to 'bite the hand that feeds them'.
- Masing: If we tell you to walk backwards, do it
- ANTIDOTE He insists that elected representatives are ‘the bosses’ during the five or so years after each election.
- Simunjan flare-up: Five held, excavators torched
- NCR rebellions against corporate invaders among Sarawak's 1.4 million Dayaks could shift the political balance in Malaysia.
- '1Care will hurt undocumented Sarawakians'
- The government has promised to protect the poor under its 1Care health financing scheme, but has given no concrete details.
- Jabu challenged over RM355 million contracts
- ANTIDOTE Sarawak Report has published a list of contracts awarded to a firm owned by relatives of DCM Alfred Jabu.
- Sarawak's Cowgate: Deputy minister faces flak
- The Sarawak Report alleges Baram MP and family members are beneficiaries of lucrative government contracts.
- Yes, there is an alternative to 1Care
ANTIDOTE Sungai Siput MP Dr Jeyakumar points to The People’s Proposal, a blueprint drafted by 81 civil society members in 2006.
- Why Malaysia needs healthcare reform
- ANTIDOTE The RM44bil health insurance fund would be the largest Umno cash cow to be fattened for slaughter.
- Ill feelings over 1Care in East M'sia
Sarawak PKR says rising anger over the controversial 1Care health financing reforms will be reflected at the polls.
- Why Pakatan must defend native land rights
- If the PAS government of Kelantan keeps siding with wealthy timber tycoons, then its welfare state pledge is shaky.
- Court victories herald change in Sarawak
- Nyipa Anak Tingang wins an injunction against forest plantation giant Pusaka KTS, which has interests in Bintulu, Belaga and Baram.
- Bomb threats wasted on the young
- Blasts a benign advice - stay off public protests.
- Another 'annus horribilis' for Taib
- The year promises more humiliation for the Sarawak chief minister, to rival any among his three decades in charge.
- Taib family fortune 'RM4.6bil in Malaysia alone'
- The chief minister's family must not place much hope on being able to silence all their growing critics throughout the world.
- Peaceful protests and people power
- ANTIDOTE With growing awareness, M'sians will not be stopped from making their voices heard.
- 'Storm is coming' for our medical profession
- Some concerned doctors are now warning of future disaster in our health care, caused by substandard new interns.
- Ex-detainee: Young people now acting without fear
- Though scarred by ISA imprisonment, Professor Tan Ka Kheng remains an environmental activist to this day.
- Malaysia's 'clash of civilisations' a phoney war
- Conflict arises, not so much from details of a particular faith, as from our very fallible interpretations of religious texts.
- Hospital 'acted correctly' in billing bereaved parents
- Medical staff provided ‘appropriate care and management' to the Penan couple whose child died a day after birth, says Sarawak Health Department.
- Penan couple forced to borrow to pay hospital bill
- Payment was for their baby who died, say the couple, who also claim rough treatment by Miri Hospital staff.
- Kuantan people will win, says anti-Lynas campaigner
- COMMENT Local people will be the underlying force to stop the rare earth plant from operating in Gebeng, says activist Tan.
- Changing the world, one film at a time
- The documentary ‘Ulu Bengoh Darom Piin' explores the contradictions in the poverty of four Bidayuh villages.
- East Malaysians baffled by hudud squabble
- Sabah and Sarawak have been a little bemused by the hype of political Islam that has pervaded the peninsula.
- British lord urges probe into House of Taib
Sarawak CM faces further international scrutiny into his fortune, with the House of Lords coming into the picture now.
- M'sia Day marred by whiff of graft, clamour for secession
- It is still far from certain whether Sarawakians will be able to grasp this opportunity to make a fresh start.
- 20,000 face 'dam nation' in Baram
- They face resettlement due to dam construction, without participating in decisions that will change their life.