Keruah Usit

A new political party called ‘Pakatan Rakyat Malaysia’ will be launched in Sibu ahead of the upcoming state elections, say political sources.

It's a possibility, given all that she has done to convince the police and a ministerial task force that she had been raped.

A flurry of angry headlines has emerged in the past few days in the Sarawak press over a report on the rape of Penan girls and women.

Elam Busang is no ordinary Iban mother. She faces threats and violence as a village chief defending her land.

Rape of Penan girls by logging company workers did indeed take place, says a shocking government report.

PKR wants an urgent independent inquiry into the disruption of Sarawak's Flying Doctor and Emergency Medevac Service

Sarawak's peaceful native community is determined to protect ancestral lands from exploitation.

Two Sarawak newspapers have portrayed four foreign journalists as the instigators behind Penan blockades in Sarawak.

The apparent lack of money for Penan language translators is hampering efforts to investigate allegations of rape by Penan women in the Baram district of Sarawak.

Nine months after a task force submitted its report to the Women, Family and Community Development Minister on alleged sexual abuse of Penan girls, she refuses to make the findings public. Why?

A report alleging that 3,000 Penans are suffering from hunger seems to be ignored by the authorities.

A group of low-income urban Malays in Sarawak fear eviction for defaulting on loan repayments to the privatised Housing Development Corporation. The state is standing by, watching this with apparent disinterest.

Most of the Sarawak press chose to downplay the nationwide anguish and outrage over Teoh Beng Hock's death

Three villages - 42km from Kuching - are to be submerged by the proposed giant Bengoh Dam.

The various churches in Sarawak eschew confrontation with the political authorities over various controversies, including the use of the word ‘Allah’ among Dayak Christians who use the Malay language during services.

Race relations in Sarawak – and Sabah too – are less tortured than in Peninsular Malaysia.

A luxurious private hospital catering for the rich in Sarawak remains unused while the poor lack access to even basic services. The federal government is now engineering a bail-out costing RM480 million.

Andrew Missen is a charming, joyful 19-year-old Bidayuh. He lives with his parents and sister in a simple house with a low roof... The teenager has only a few years to live.

The clash between forest dwellers and the MTCC is a case study in the doctrine of ‘might is right’.

The company has issued both inducements and threats to get the Penan to let it log their emerald rainforest.

'The company offered me 20,000 ringgit in cash to persuade the rest of our village to take down the blockade. I said no because I can’t sell what I don’t have.'

In 1990, Ahmad Sahari led 17 villages around Gunung Gading in a battle against a powerful logging company, Sanyan Timber – and won.

Those whom she turned to for help had let her down - the police, the village chief, the hospital, which made her pay for treatment even though she’s a citizen and was pregnant because she had been raped.