Tony Thien

It is not about politics, it concerns people's lives, argues DAP state assemblyperson for Kidurong (Bintulu) Chiew Chin Sing.

A DAP legislator says a review should be demanded when the oil price is high and before the nations's reserves goes shallow.

An opposition leader calls on the state government to help Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in his war against corruption.

They want compensation for the destruction of their oil palm plants, destroyed after the government leased out their ancestral land to a company.

According to a Sarawak-based NGO, this move will help take care of the well-being of indigenous people.

Supp leader Peter Chin's concession that the predominantly Chinese party is going to lose some seats in the coming elections 'surprised and shocked' both Pak Lah and Taib.

The authorities claim it is state land but the Iban villagers in seven longhouses in Lasit argue otherwise.

The Sarawak Dayak Iban Association urges the government and its sympathisers to exert pressure on Rimbunan Hijau from logging on NCR land in Sarawak.

He was arrested on Wednesday and locked up overnight in the Miri police station in connection with an alleged attack on Indon workers at an oil palm plantation.

But Suhakam says the state government's plan must have the consent of the native community first.

The Larry Sng faction of Parti Rakyat Sarawak and top leaders of Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party met for the first time for 'exploratory talks'.

Eight years after making way for the Bakun dam project, a native community of Sarawak continues to despair over land issues.

A stand-off between Japanese timber-carrying ships and a politically connected agency has been simmering for several months with negative effects on the timber industry.

Sulaiman Taib, the younger son of Sarawak's chief minister, is set to enter active politics by taking up the vice-president's post in PBB Youth.

Gabriel Adit was the 'surprise' at the meeting of the Sng-led faction of Parti Rakyat Sarawak in Kuching this afternoon.

Landowners in Bako near Kuching are fuming over a government plan to acquire their land, totaling 62 acres, for a proposed Muslim cemetery.

Japanese ships are being made to wait at three Sarawak ports reportedly as a retaliatory move following the timber kickbacks scandal which came to light seven months ago.

The Federal Court finally re-affirmed that the principle of common law applies in Sarawak, although the state attorney-general argued otherwise.

However, a plantation company and its contractor are seeking an injunction to bar the six from entering the work site in a dispute over land.

The six Iban villagers were arrested yesterday in connection with the torching of a workers living quarters.

Sarawak's Dayak community must do more to defend its native customary lights to ancestral land, said an activist.

Residents of five Iban longhouses in Kuala Balingian, Sarawak, are facing much hardship in defending their right to ancestral land.

The Bandar Kuching MP has been trying in vain to obtain an appointment with Kuching City South Council to discuss problems relating to a waste management company.

Auditor-General's Report Bandar Kuching MP is keen to meet Kuching City South acting mayor to thrash out the poor services provided by its private waste management contractor.