Adenan asked to set an independent team to probe coal mine disaster

KUCHING, Nov 25, 2014: Sarawak PKR today calls on Chief Minister Adenan Satem to immediately order for the setting up of an independent team to conduct investigation into the Selantik coal mine disaster which had taken the lives of three foreign workers and injured 30 others, including 20 who are in critical conditions.

"We have urged the state government to look into the matter barely two years ago after four Chinese national coal miners lost their lives at the same coal mine.

Pledge alone not enough, sack top officials, urges BMF

KUCHING, Nov 25, 2014: Swiss-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) Bruno Manser Fund (BMF), while commending Chief Minister Adenan Satem’s resolve to fight corruption and combat illegal logging, said pledges alone will not be enough to save Sarawaks’ threatened old-growth forests, which have been reduced to less than ten per cent of the state’s surface.

BMF calls on the Sarawak state government to install a task force to deal with the urgent problems of timber corruption, deforestation and the loss of biodiversity - and to replace the state’s top officials who should have dealt with the current problems a long time ago but failed to do so.

Faulty fan may have triggered the mine explosion, initial probe reveals

KUCHING, Nov 22, 2014: Initial investigation revealed that an explosion at a coal mine in Abok, near Pantu this morning, was caused by sparks from a faulty fan which ignited a gas fire and explosion in the 700-metre long tunnel.

The investigation was conducted by Sri Aman Fire and Rescue Department, led by its chief Ranger Moos.

CM to BN Youth leaders from Malaya:Speak up against extremism in Malaya

KUCHING, Nov 22, 2014: Chief Minister Adenan Satem had directly told Barisan Nasional (BN) Youth leaders from Malaya to speak up against racial and religious extremism, and not keeping quiet about it.

While Sarawakians are proud of its history of untarnished racial and religious harmony, Malaya is not. The rise of extremist groups, like Perkasa and Isma in Malaya, is a cause for concern. Racial riot broke out in Malaya in 1969, but not in Sarawak and Sabah.

Adenan's anti-illegal logging drive receives WWF's support

KUCHING, Nov 22, 2014: World Wide Fund for Nature-Malaysia (WWF-Malaysia) supports the Sarawak government’s intent to uphold integrity and legality of logging operations in Sarawak, stating that getting the main logging firms known as the “Big Six” and 15 forestry-related government agencies and companies to sign integrity pledges is a good start.