Social media will play an important role come the 12th state election, expected in 2021, and the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) government has been reminded to take the effectiveness of social media seriously. – New Sarawak Tribune, May 31 2019 In the same news piece, Batang Sadong MP Nancy Shukri
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked
EGO weakens the Dayaks; we are our own greatest enemy because we let our hearts rule our heads: Dr Rundi (New Sarawak Tribune, May 26, 2019) I have not seen anything like that in a long, long time – not from a minister and in mainstream media, anyway. So yes,
Celebrating Gawai Dayak is fun. Families get to come together, to drink the ai pengayu (the longevity tuak) at the stroke of midnight and thereafter celebrate the way you know best. You get to visit friends and your friends get to visit you, to eat and drink and make merry.
Sungai Bulu in Batang Sadong is Sungai Buluh today. I have not been there to see how different it is from the days when I knew it to be Sungai Bulu, which was very long ago. But I have been told it has transformed so much, with lots of progress
It was in 2016, and Zuraida Kamaruddin had just been banned from entering Sarawak again. The national women’s chief of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) had been turned back at immigration control and asked to leave the state in her previous visits in 2013 and 2014. An exasperated Zuraida vented her
When Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Liew Vui Keong said he was going “to closely monitor the resolution of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (DUN) on matters pertaining to Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63)” netizens did not take it well. Monitoring for what, some asked. Others said the minister
With growing vigour Malaysians continue to debate the failed Bill that was proposed to amend Article 1 (2) of the Federal Constitution. For most Sarawakians the furor is understandable as it concerns their constitutional rights, hence their future and the future of their children, grand-children and great grand-children. There is,
It looks like until MA63 is made part of the Constitution, the debate now raging is not likely to die down. Sarawak has made its stand clear. It wants the Constitution to be unambiguous on two basic issues, one, a new definition of the word ‘Federation’ and the insertion of
I like the position taken by GPS on why the proposed amendment to Article 1(2) of the Federal Constitution in its present form is not acceptable to Sarawak, and to Sabah, for that matter. Indeed, the wording is far from satisfactory. The wording must not be ambiguous and should capture
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