Inside Sarawak

Source: Bernama (View expressed here is solely the opinion of the source)

KUCHING: The Sarawak government has declared June 4 this year as a public holiday in the state, Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said today.

Source: Malaysiakini - Koh Jun Lin (View expressed here is solely the opinion of the source)

A Bersih 3.0 protester says he was assaulted while in police custody in order for police to extract a confession from him.

This was after Mohd Safuan Mamat surrendered at the Dang Wangi district police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur about 8am on Monday, to assist police investigations in relation to the April 28 protest, according to the police report he lodged yesterday.

Source: Malaysiakini (View expressed here is solely the opinion of the source)

Lawyer Joseph Brehem, who is currently in France pursuing the inquiry into the Malaysian purchase of French submarines, rebutted Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s statement that the French courts have no jurisdiction over Malaysians.

Source: The Star - DIANA ROSE (View expressed here is solely the opinion of the source)

MIRI: Community leaders and state politicians express their disgust over a recent media report on the Penan community practising incestuous relationship, describing it as an insult to the community and Sarawak.

“This is all rubbish and misleading reporting,” said Penan community leader Temenggong Datuk Hasan Sui when contacted by phone yesterday.

Source: The Star - VANES DEVINDRAN (View expressed here is solely the opinion of the source)

KUCHING: Sarawak could be “two-thirds” of the way to securing the 200 hybrid buses which are being stored at a port in Shanghai.

It is learnt that the Commercial Vehicle and Licensing Board (CVLB) had yesterday agreed to waive off two of the three requirements for the issuance of operation permit (OP) to a company to jumpstart the state’s public transportation revamp.

Source: The Star (View expressed here is solely the opinion of the source)

KUCHING: Peoples Association for Development and Education of Penan Sarawak (Pade) has demanded for a public apology from a national Malay tabloid for what it described as unethical and uncivilised report on the community or it will sue the newspaper.

Pade president Ezra Uda said the association and the Penans at large were very disappointed and hurt by the tabloid’s front page report entitled “Ibuku isteriku, bapaku suamiku.”

Source: Malaysiakini (View expressed here is solely the opinion of the source)

The Bar Council has come out strongly against Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Nazri Abdul Aziz’s announcement yesterday of an alternative to the Bar, saying it could usurp the functions of the council under the Legal Professions Act (LPA) 1976.

Source: Malaysiakini - Susan Loone     2:06PM May 15, 2012     (View expressed here is solely the opinion of the source)

The DAP appears unwilling to let go of newly resigned vice-chief Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim, and its leaders will meet the latter to convince him to stay.

Source: Malaysiakini (View expressed here is solely the opinion of the source)

Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi yesterday insisted that the French courts have no jurisdiction to summon Malaysians to testify in the ongoing inquiry into the Malaysian purchase of French submarines.  

Source: Borneo Post - Peter Boon (View expressed here is solely the opinion of the source)

SIBU: PM: Fulfilment of election promises despite BN’s defeat shows government’s sincerity.

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak assured people here that they would not be sidelined in development despite seeing the Sibu parliamentary seat falling to the opposition in the last by-election.

“We will continue to fulfill our promises, even for people of Sibu, even though we lost in the parliamentary by-election here.

We are all using digital camera or our smart phone to take photos. We are using at least 5 MP camera to take photo which gives "huge size" for quality printing but problem for uploading and emailing.

Source: The Borneo Post - Raymond Tan April 25, 2012, Wednesday (View expressed here is solely the opinion of the source)

SIBU: Dato Sri Dr Benny Lee, who was reported by an English daily as a possible candidate picked by SUPP president Datuk Seri Peter Chin for Sibu constituency, denied uttering such a statement.

Lee, who is also the CEO of ITA College, said he had never mentioned that he was the one picked by Chin.

Source: Malaysiakini (View expressed here is solely the opinion of the source)