Orang Asli community wins in native customary rights land case

IPOH, Oct 1,2015 - The High Court declared yesterday that the Semai indigenous community or Orang Asli has customary rights over land at Kampung Orang Asli, Kuala Senta, in Bidor, south of Perak.

They have sued the Lands and Survey and two others for encroaching their customary rights land about 2,200 hectares.

Dayak community leaders bringing their water problem to DAP Sri Aman to highlight

BY Andrew Daniels

SIMANGGANG, Sept 30, 2015 - A week after DAP Sri Aman branch highlighted the plight of Batu Lintang Undup residents requesting for clean treated water, some community leaders from Kara,Bukit Begunan and Lachau have asked its branch chairman Leon Jimat Donald to air their greviances.

The drought has hit the residents of the longhouses hard  and they are now asking that DAP Sri Aman write on their behalf to request to Chief Minister Adenan Satem to have a water treatment water plant be built in Lachau as to provide clean treated water to the many longhouses in these areas.

Climate change affects us more, say indigenous peoples

CHIANG MAI, Thailand, Sept 28, 2015 - The indigenous peoples, whose homes are in the mountains and forests, the coasts and small islands, are the real victims of climate change as a result of the failure of a development model which is contingent on using up natural resources with no consideration for sustainability and social equity.

"Corporate greed and control over resources have rendered our national decision-makers powerless in the face of pressure from industrialised nations," said a statement issued at the conclusion of a Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 21st Session of the UN Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)  Conference of Parties (COP21) from Sept 16-18, 2015 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Let the people be the judges - Opposition or BN who are the mind-poisoners?

By Baru Bian,

Sarawak PKR chairman

The recent statements by Sylvester Entri and Johnical Rayong calling for the people to reject the opposition parties and Peninsula Malaysian parties is a sign that BN is afraid that the people will come to realize that they have been duped by BN for the past few decades.

In fact, there has been an increase in these sorts of statements lately from BN politicians, which points to their worry that more and more people are beginning to reject their ‘empty promise and money’ style of politics.

BMF says moratorium on Baram Dam should follow with action to find alternative energy sources

KUCHING, Sept 24, 2015: The Bruno Manser Fund, in welcoming Chief Minister  Adenan Satem’s decision to impose a moratorium on the Baram Dam, is asking the government to quickly follow this up with action in order to boost confidence in the policy turnaround.

In a statement, BMF said there should be a prompt launch of collaboration with a team from University of California, Berkeley, to find an alternative energy path for Sarawak.