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Can Pakatan bounce back in GE14?
ANTIDOTE | Lashing out at Sarawakians is selfish, self-defeating, and really quite stupid.
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9 years ago
It’s the economy, stupid
ANTIDOTE | A brighter future for S’wakians will translate to a better outlook for all M’sians.
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9 years ago
Sarawak votes, while Sarawakian natives choke
ANTIDOTE | The rural communities of Baram have been fighting on two fronts.
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9 years ago
Sarawak's rural poor, through Najib's eyes
ANTIDOTE | Najib sees the Penan as modern, clever and doing higher education - during an election campaign run in Suai.
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9 years ago
What hope is there for Malaysia?
ANTIDOTE | The resilient ones grow stronger through political or economic crises.
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9 years ago
Arrest yourselves, cops tell Baram blockaders
Villagers against Baram dam told to drive three hours to Miri police station.
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10 years ago
New CM makes no dam difference
ANTIDOTE Adenan risks leaving a legacy no better than that of a puppet on a string.
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11 years ago
Christian-baiting a diversion from infighting
COMMENT The prime minister fails to conceal growing divisions in Umno.
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11 years ago
'Sarawak gov't will use police to break dam blockades'
COMMENT The powers that be seem to be armoured in immunity, raping jungles, home to natives.
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11 years ago
Learning from TI-M's decline
Malaysia's dedicated and highly motivated NGO activists have taken note of TI-M's shabby treatment of Josie Fernandez.
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11 years ago
Mockery of 'bumi empowerment' in Sarawak
The alleged misuse of zakat does not reflect well on the premier’s plans for economic transformation of bumiputeras.
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11 years ago
Rising prices, not religion, will break BN's hold
COMMENT Rising prices and an impending economic downturn, and subsidy cuts, may work against the BN in Sarawak in 2015.
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11 years ago
'Allah ban rooted firmly in politics'
COMMENT The gov't would've been relentless had it believed Muslims' understanding of Allah would've been 'confused' by Christians' Trinity.
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12 years ago
New aluminium smelter galvanises opposition
The aluminium smelter is a flagship project in the aggressive industrialisation plan of Sarawak CM Abdul Taib Mahmud.
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12 years ago
Women's minister to 'revisit' inaction on Penan rape
ANTIDOTE The time for publicity stunts is over - her duty is to act, not waffle, on information from her officers and stakeholders.
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12 years ago
A man for all races - a great teacher departs
Brother Albinus preached by example, and practised before the eyes of the young what he wished them to accept.
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12 years ago
Rep's remarks on Penan rapes elicit disbelief
ANTIDOTE Assemblyperson Dennis Ngau's remarks on Women's Minister Rohani Abdul Karim's claim of action taken on sexual violence earns ridicule.
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12 years ago
Moral hazard means more haze
ANTIDOTE The haze can only be prevented by political will, for growing population, oil palm estates and logging are the causes.
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12 years ago
Greed gets in your eyes
ANTIDOTE Transparency and haze do not go hand in hand, despite all that the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil can argue.
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12 years ago
Taib weakened by authoritative court ruling
The Court of Appeal has recognised a claim by native litigants that fallow land falls within Native Customary Rights.
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12 years ago
Civil servants risk contempt of court over NCR battles
ANTIDOTE 'It has become the norm that state government servants succumb to pressure,' says DAP Piasau assemblyperson Alan Ling Sie Kiong.
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12 years ago
PKR: Rural votes bought, denied, or tallied illegally
An election petition filed on June 12 by Roland Engan, the party’s candidate for Baram, Sarawak, lays out startling details.
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12 years ago
Pakatan can only win by addressing rural poverty
COMMENT When all the hysteria dies down, it will become clear that class differences outweigh ethnic divisions in Malaysian politics.
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12 years ago
Minister Paul Low has lifted TI-M to 'new heights'
COMMENT He may not produce cabinet transformation, but some would argue that decay is a sort of transformation.
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12 years ago
Pakatan's political tweaks for rural votes
COMMENT It should continue to strengthen its multicultural and ‘welfare state’ policies, not get into ethnic politics or vote buying.
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12 years ago
'BN=perintah' formula wins Sarawak rural seats
COMMENT If Pakatan Rakyat is to progress in the next election, it must expand its support among rural and suburban communities.
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12 years ago
TI divided over Taib's dam congress
ANTIDOTE Transparency International is facing flak over its support for the World Congress of the International Hydropower Association.
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12 years ago
Why the 'urban tsunami' stopped at the coast
ANTIDOTE The BN choke hold on the rural communities can't be sustained through exploiting their resources with little in exchange.
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12 years ago
Sarawak BN 'poised for victory', but is still desperate
ANTIDOTE Signs of desperation emerges in S'wak in this parliamentary election, with state BN ministers fearing their fate is out of their hands.
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12 years ago
Let's 'Ubah', urges wounded land rights defender
ANTIDOTE 'We must all change, open our eyes now,' says a Sarawak NCR land activist savagely attacked by encroachers into native land.
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12 years ago
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