
Indigenous reps pass memo to S'wak state assembly
The memorandum handed seeks to get Sarawakian assembly persons to champion indigenous peoples’ struggle for ancestral lands and rights.


Two Sarawak BN component parties - PBB and PRS - have set their sights on a predominantly Iban seat that has been left vacant by an ailing state assemblyperson.



Beginda Minda, a known critic of Sarawak CM Abdul Taib Mahmud, says he was resigning from Parti Rakyat Sarawak to ‘protect’ party president James Masing from further trouble.




PRS issues a show-cause letter to its Balleh division ex-publicity chief Beginda Minda who called on Sarawak CM Taib Mahmud and DCM Alfred Jabu to resign.


The federal government has been warned to be serious in tackling the issue of illegal immigrants in Sabah as the problem has existed for more than three decades.



Another PRS division leader has come out in support of a colleague’s claim that PBB is ‘bullying’ state component parties, even as speculation swirls that heads could roll.





Joseph Tawie, a former police press liaison officer and now freelance writer, accused state leaders of trying to cover up the controversy in his blog, 'The Broken Shield'.

Dominique Ng wants to know why the Sarawak government is ignoring important rulings by the courts on native customary rights, saying the rights of natives are now entrenched in law.



The Sarawak Dayak Iban Association wants the deputy chief minister to reveal the real reason why a briefing for a group of local and foreign NGO representatives was axed at the last minute.
