Headmaster, teachers coerced into signing away school's land?

SIMUNJAN, Nov 17, 2014: State Education Department has begun investigating  allegations that headmaster and teachers of SK Semalatong, near here, were coerced into signing an "agreement" by the school's Parents-Teachers' Association (PTA), giving away the school's land to a  plantation company.

Kurup embarrassed with report on religious restrictions in Malaysia

KUCHING, Nov 17, 2014: Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Joseph Kurup said he is embarrassed that Malaysia has been placed on par with Egypt, Syria, Somalia, Russian, Sudan and Iraq on religious restrictions.

" I am also little concerned with certain international reporting which makes our freedom of religion guaranteed by the Constitution questionable.," he said at the launch of the UN International Day for Tolerance at Limkokwing University College of Creative Technology in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

Joseph Kurup...dramatic decline in culture of tolerance

No letter yet from ROS to officially declare SAPA an unlawful society

KUCHING, Nov 15,2014: Sarawak Association for People's Aspiration (SAPA) has not received any letter from the Registrar of Societies (ROS) on the decision by the Home Ministry, it said on its Facebook page, in response to the ministry's decision to declare SAPA as an unlawful society.

SAPA called the declaration as "unprecedented of Putrajaya to take this step".

 

Lina Soo...SAPA president

Home Ministry declares SAPA an illegal organisation

KUCHING, Nov 15,2014: The Home Ministry has gazetted Sarawak Association for People's Aspiration (SAPA) as an illegal organisation for contravening section 5(1) of the Societies Act 1966,.

The ministry issued the gazettification notice N Pewartaan (P.U.(A) 307/2014 yesterday.

DAP lawmaker claims BN is scared of DAP's Impian Sarawak

KUCHING, Nov 15, 2014: Pelawan state lawmaker David Wong Kee Woan has claimed that the state government is allocating 50% of the total development allocations in the State Budget to the rural areas because it wants to counter the DAP's Impian Sarawak rural drive programme.

"Why is this 50% of the development allocation of the proposed budget for the implementing of programmes and projects in the rural area? he asked.