Baru expressing reservation on new section 197A of the land Bill.

Ba'Kelalan State Assemblyman Baru Bian's debate speech on the Land Code (Amendment) Bill 2014 at the Sarawak State Assembly today, Nov 10, 2014 

Ø  Section 5(2) 

The proposed amendment to section 5(2) of the Land Code is the “reincarnation” of part of my private Bill, which was rejected by a vote in this august house in our last sitting in May. Nevertheless, I am happy to lend support to the amendments proposed in the present Bill before us today except a small reservation on the new section 197A, for reasons I will elaborate later.

Fully packed tour of Penang, with fond memories

GEORGE TOWN, Nov 9, 2014: It was a fully packed tour of Penang by 13 reporters and three Sarawak DAP state law makers from Kuching. 

The tour, from Nov 3 to 6, was at the invitation of the Penang state government.

Picture: Members of the Kuching media and three Sarawak DAP state law makers posing for a group photograph before leaving George Town.

CCJ: We didn't receive Pas invitation to attend PR meeting

KUCHING, Nov 8, 2014: Sarawak DAP chairman Chong Chieng Jen has denied that the party had received an invitation to attend a  State Pakatan Rakyat (PR) committee meeting chaired by Sarawak Pas last Thursday.

"We were in the dark of the meeting," he said when asked why the party was absent from the meeting.

Picture: Chong Chieng Jen (2nd right) says that his party did not receive an invitation to attend a PK committee meeting chaired by Sarawak Pas.

DAP nominates Thomas Tegong as a candidate for senatorship

KUCHING, Nov 8, 2014: Thomas Tegong Laka, a retired head of the Iban service of RTM, has been nominated by the Sarawak DAP as a candidate to be a senator from Sarawak.

The election of the senator by the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly is on Tuesday, Nov 13, in the event that two candidates are being nominated.

 Picture: Chong Chieng Jen (left) with Thomas Tegong Laka.

Rahman Yakub responding well to treatment at a private hospital

KUCHING, Nov 8, 2014: Datuk Justine Jinggut explained that his father-in-law Abdul Rahman Yakub is responding well to treatment at the Normal Medical Special Centre for flu infection.

"He has started eating...nothing to worry about," Justine said today.