Joe Fernandez

New movement to revive Sabah languages takes off

New movement to revive Sabah languages takes off

Sabah’s 30-odd dying languages get a shot in the arm, with the help of Dusun cultural activist Raymond Boin bin Tombung,
KK High Court delivers major blow to NRD

KK High Court delivers major blow to NRD

Court ruling could have opened up a can of worms for the department if NGOs take up the issue affecting thousands.
Umno clearly not in same league as PAS

Umno clearly not in same league as PAS

COMMENT It's a little difficult to fathom Chua's thinking that PAS, rather than Umno, is a danger to the multiracial fabric of Malaysia.
Sabah wants illegals listed as national priority

Sabah wants illegals listed as national priority

According to Idris Jala, illegal immigrants have not been included in the NKRA ‘because it was not what the majority of the nation wants'.
Five in fray for PKR deputy presidency

Five in fray for PKR deputy presidency

COMMENT updated 4.24pm Mustapha Kamil Ayub of Perak wants to be No 2, with Azmin Ali and Zaid Ibrahim eyeing the post as well.
Hulu S'gor by-election ruling all too predictable

Hulu S'gor by-election ruling all too predictable

COMMENT The courts seem to prefer to leave substantive issues untouched and throwing out cases on the slightest technicality.
Sapp pushes for White Paper on SAS debacle

Sapp pushes for White Paper on SAS debacle

The party wants the government to come clean on the unit trust's failure, and put a halt to the blame former CM Yong Teck Lee game.
Sabah politics heats up over stalled Mazu statue

Sabah politics heats up over stalled Mazu statue

LDP claims the case reeks of ‘exercise in absolute power’ and ‘gross abuse of power’ on the part of the state authorities.
No regrets in opposing Sabah being part of M'sia

No regrets in opposing Sabah being part of M'sia

simon sipaun 02 Ex-Suhakam vice-chairperson Simon Sipaun is convinced more than ever that Sabah should have chosen to be a free and independent nation.
SLA alleges serious breaches of Sabah rights

SLA alleges serious breaches of Sabah rights

A Sabah Law Association representative suggested that the state's rights had been violated by the federal government on several key issues.
Jeffrey: Divide Sabah, S'wak into 16 new states

Jeffrey: Divide Sabah, S'wak into 16 new states

dr jeffery gopari kitingan This would restore the original balance of power in Parliament that east Malaysia had with west Malaysia in 1963.
Upko up in arms over refugees' IMM13 papers

Upko up in arms over refugees' IMM13 papers

It fears the federal government may have issued an excess of 27,000 such documents to refugees without state consent.
PBS demands Sabah illegals be deported by 2012

PBS demands Sabah illegals be deported by 2012

The party information chief denies he had called for regularisation of illegal immigrants as alleged by SAPP's Yong Teck Lee.
Sabah may get to use its gas

Sabah may get to use its gas

The Sabah government made it known to Petronas that it wants some of the gas for local use and it seems amenable to the request.
Chong: Relocating Mazu is not the issue

Chong: Relocating Mazu is not the issue

Ex-CM said the state should convince the court that the grounds to stop the Mazu project, and then cancel its approval, are sustainable in law.
NRD again skips meet on 'Islam' in MyKad

NRD again skips meet on 'Islam' in MyKad

The meeting in Kota Kinabalu had been scheduled for last Friday and subsequently was postponed twice.
Statue: Ex-Sabah CM wants people to decide

Statue: Ex-Sabah CM wants people to decide

Chong Kah Kiat claims that no court has ruled that Mazu was illegal and he had done no wrong in putting up the statue.
Solution to Sabah illegals? Hire them

Solution to Sabah illegals? Hire them

The Human Resources Ministry believes if they can’t beat the problem, give the illegal immigrants jobs, all half a million of them.
M'sia's  increasing unattractiveness is 'karma'

M'sia's increasing unattractiveness is 'karma'

COMMENT It's a struggle to be able to uproot deeply entrenched mental habits but it has to been done to save the nation.
Harris sues Yong over '76 air crash

Harris sues Yong over '76 air crash

Ex-CM is unhappy with the SAPP president who allegedly stated in a local daily that he had something to do with the incident.
Sabah, S'wak activists want out from Malaysia

Sabah, S'wak activists want out from Malaysia

COMMENT July 31 seminar hopes to kick off the start to the two states exiting from Malaysia in the same way Singapore did in 1965.
Sabah illegals for hire a way forward, but...

Sabah illegals for hire a way forward, but...

COMMENT Public and private reactions to Human Resource Ministry's move coming in thick and fast, with many of them outraged.
Crashed Sabah computer labs project reboot

Crashed Sabah computer labs project reboot

Only three out of 300 labs have been completed, and are not even usable. Meanwhile an 84-year-old native receives his 1Malaysia laptop.
Cabotage: Peninsular shipowners on the carpet

Cabotage: Peninsular shipowners on the carpet

They are rapped for wanting to maintain the cabotage policy despite knowing very well that it is discriminatory against Sabah and Sarawak.