A must visit places if you are going to Penang

KUCHING, Nov 7, 2014: If you are planning to visit Penang, make sure to include George Town Heritage Site on a must-visit list of itinerary.

The site, of about 259ha, is where you can see well-preserved old buildings and places of interests, which have been declared as heritage buildings and sites by the Penang government.

Picture: A sketch map of the George Town World Heritage Side area.

Don't give up on your demand for better oil and gas royalties, Guan Eng tells Adenan

GEORGE TOWN, PENANG, Nov 7, 2014: Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has told his Sarawak counterpart Adenan Satem not to give up demanding for an increase in the oil and gas royalties from 5% to 20%, from the federal government.

"Don't settle for anything less," he said when speaking at a dinner hosted for members of the Sarawak media on Wednesday night.

 Lim Guan Eng (front row, centre) with members of the Sarawak media and DAP posing for photograph after the dinner on Nov 5.

Masing visits Kanang's unattended grave

KUCHING, Nov 6, 2014:  Land Development Minister James Masing visited the grave of the nation's most decorated war hero Kanang Langkau at the Heroes War Memorial at Reservoir Road here today.

The visit follows a complaint by Kanang's soldier son Cpl Langgi that his father's grave was left unattended, despite a promise being made by Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu Numpang that the government would give the late hero a proper respect that he deserved.

 

Picture: James Masing paying his last respects at the grave of the late War Hero Kanang Langkau. 

Stop intimidating the protesters, NGOs tell police

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 6, 2014: - Malaysian and international human rights organisations are uniting to publicly denounce the actions taken by police to intimidate indigenous peoples in Sarawak at the proposed site of the Baram Dam.

On Oct 31, when a group of residents from the villages of Long Na’ah and Long Kesseh tried to access customary lands located within the site designated for the proposed Baram Dam, they were blocked by over 30 personnel from the General Operation Force (GOF) and at least 10 enforcement officers of the Sarawak Forestry Corporation.

Last minutes bid to stop the launch of "Money Logging" book in Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, Nov 2, 2014: Malaysia’s delegation to the International Tropical Timber Organisation, ITTO, has orders  from the "highest levels of government in Kuala Lumpur“ to stop the presentation of a book by Lukas Straumann, the executive director of the Bruno Manser Fund.