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BN govt took grabbed and snatched NCR land A Fact
It was reported as front page news in the Borneo Post on the 19th June 2009 that the BN Government will not take away the native customary lands of the natives. The PM was quoted to urge the people ...
22 Jun 2009
Queen decorates illegal logger
PRESS STATEMENT: Tiong Hiew King, founder and chairman of the notorious Malaysian Rimbunan Hijau Group, has been bestowed with a knighthood - Bruno Manser Fund: "Tiong is unfit for such a ...
22 Jun 2009
The terror of government silence
One has to wonder, what's stopping Shahrizat as the minister in charge, and the Barisan Nasional (BN) cabinet as the government in charge, from treating the rape and sexual harassment of Penans girls ...
20 Jun 2009
Govt won’t commit to making Penan report public
Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil continued to be noncommittal when she was asked about the findings of a task force that was set up to investigate ...
18 Jun 2009
Life and Time of a Penan Selungo between two “worlds”
Anthony is just such a humble and quiet person whose shy nature would not stand out in a crowd. He has no reason to want to stand out in the first place. He is a Penan from Ulu Baram, Sarawak, a home ...
08 Jun 2009
Sarawak's logging: Carrots, sticks and lies
"How could the law take the forest away from poor villagers to give to a company from the town? The company started taking the forest without even asking us. We have to stop the company trespassing ...
03 Jun 2009
BN Sarawak Con NCR landowners, 2 decades and continuing …
I couldn’t help noticing, yet again, the latest news spinned by yet another Sarawak BN minister on the greatness of large-scale land development scheme on Native Customary Rights (NCR) lands. There ...
31 May 2009
The death of a Penan mother
Justin Jusieh, a 25-year-old Penan man from a small, isolated settlement in upriver Sarawak, sat at the breakfast table and recounted, in a quiet voice, the death of his mother, Jari Lenau, 40.
27 May 2009
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