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“If Adenan is serious about protecting Sarawak’s interests, he should take immediate steps to reduce the number of West Malaysians holding such high positions in government departments and agencies in Sarawak." 'Let locals head all S'wak federal departments'www.malaysiakini.comTh …

Since he took over as Sarawak’s fifth chief minister from Abdul Taib Mahmud, who helmed the state government for more than 33 years, Adenan Satem has been carrying the ‘political baggage’ that has been associated with the former chief minister. Can Adenan win back Chinese votes for BN?www.malaysiaki …

Attorney General Gani Patail was severely criticised by Sarawak’s politicians from both BN and the opposition for deciding not to take legal action against Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali, on his call to burn Malay language Bibles. While a number of opposition politicians called for the sacking of the Gha …

Eighty percent of Sarawak’s 2.6 million population are expected to be hit hard by the petrol and diesel pump price increase of 20 sen per litre effectively. Sarawak DAP chief Chong Chieng Jen said that the hike will have a knock on effect on the mostly rural dwellers, who are mostly subsistence farm …

Were the Dayak community, who constitute about 50 percent of Sarawak’s population, forcibly handed over by the British colonial government to another master through the formation of Malaysia? “This is the question often asked by the Dayak, as to whether they have been transferred from one colonial m …

The United People's Party (UPP), Sarawak’s new political party friendly to the Barisan Nasional (BN), said today it hopes to set up 24 branches in the state in three months. Its pro-tem president, Wong Soon Koh, said the party would write to the Registrar of Societies (ROS) for approval to set …

Mariam Mokhtar | Learn from Sarawak’s harmony Last month, ‘Papa Orang Utan’, aka Peter John Jaban, the land and human rights activist, took his fight for greater recognition of Sarawak to England. Talking about the various abuses in Sarawak, he urged overseas East Malaysians to sign a petition to be …