Illegal logs, worth RM200,000, seized in Sibu region

KUCHING, March 23,2015:   The Sarawak Forestry Corporation Sdn Bhd's enforcement teams in Sibu, Bintulu and Kuching have seized various quantities of illegal logs over the weekend.

The biggest haul, comprising 330 pieces of hill logs of mixed species, was made in Sibu region. These logs, with an estimated volume of 300 m3 and worth more than RM200,000 were found at an abandoned logging road located between Sungei Takan and Ngungun, Song.

Illegal logs seized in Sibu region

Another arson attempt on the house of village chief?

 By Simon Peter

MIRI, March 23, 2015. – Around midnight on March 22, a house belonging to Tuai Rumah Jambai Ak Jeli, located at Taman Jelita, Miri was purposely set on fire in a suspected arson which have apparent links to the current Native Customary Rights (NCR) land dispute involving five longhouses of the Iban community of Sungai Bekelit, Sungai Serunggut and Sungai Kelitang, Sibuti sub-district, Miri.

"This is the second arson case to befall Tuai Rumah Jambai, whereby exactly three  months earlier, on 22 December 2014, his car was torched by unknown persons right in front of his house.

Slightly burnt marks on the wall of TR Jambai's house.Note traces of inflammable liquid on the floor and wall.

DAP to take final step to leave Pakatan Rakyat

KUCHING, March 20, 2015: In light of the “back-stabbing” by PAS in the tabling of the hudud bill in Kelantan, it is now either PAS or DAP in Pakatan Rakyat Sarawak.

"Given such a betrayal, DAP Sarawak will have no choice but to consider taking the final step to leave Pakatan Rakyat," Sarawak DAP chief Chong Chieng Jen said to reporters today.

Chong Chieng Jen (left) and his political assistant Sanjan Daik

Adenan:Less priority given to Sarawak before by the federal government

KUCHING, March 18, 2015. - Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem said Sarawak is lagging behind Malaya "perhaps, because of less priority given to us before" by the federal government  over the last 50 years.

"I will not put it (unfair treatment) in that way," he told reporters when asked to elaborate on his speech earlier at the opening of the National Smallholders and Commodities Entrepreneurs Conference here today.

Anti-Baram dam activists smearing our name, SEB accuses

By Simon Peter

KUCHING, March 16, 2015. - The state-owned power supplier Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) said  today it is disappointed to note the latest chapter of the long running international campaign to smear its name and the state government by  Sarawak's anti-development activists in Manila.

A statement on its website said SEB has complied with the standard requirements for the proposed loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) when submitting a Resettlement and Ethnic Minority Development Plan (REMDP) last September.

Protesters at the proposed Baram site