Distance that kill incentive to collect welfare payments

If the travel to collect welfare payment make the collection of welfare payment a loss-making effort-why can’t the government make better arrangement when they approve such welfare payment?

Penerima di pedalaman tidak mampu ambil elaun kerana kos tinggi

August 27, 2010, Friday(Utusan Borneo)

MIRI: Walaupun mendapat bantuan elaun daripada Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat (JKM) namun bagi 200 penerima di kawasan Baram, Bario dan Mulu, ia masih tidak berbaloi kerana mereka terpaksa berbelanja besar setiap kali mengeluarkan wang tersebut berikutan ketiadaan mesin pengeluar wang automatik (ATM) yang terdekat.

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Chinese no future outside BN?

The Sarawak BN /PBB leader speak as though there could be no future for the Chinese if the SUPP opt out of BN -but the party is already being abandon by the Chinese community going by the results of last state elections and the recent Sibu by-election. Is it as though that BN will forever be the government of the day-and that the BN Government will not be a fair government to all communities? But if the government is not fair to communities which are supposedly `represented’ in the state government why would any `community’ (actually only a party) want such ineffective representation? Another view on whether it make sense for the party SUPP stay on in BN is given in 2nd analysis below.

‘Think about future of the Chinese’

August 27, 2010, Friday

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Should govt pay or get paid for sand mining?

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‘No such thing as contractors paying govt’

by Melvera Munded
August 27, 2010, Friday(Borneo Post)

SIMUNJAN: Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dato Sri Douglas Uggah Embas yesterday requested Sibu MP Wong Ho Leng to substantiate his claims that contractors in Selangor and Penang are paying the government for dredging works and not vice versa.
NEED SERIOUS ACTION: Uggah and Nancy inspect the erosion at Simunjan.

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Taib want to take over Bakun?

I want only 1 Bakun...

Bakun Dam has put Federal Government in a tough situation-and that allows the state government to drive a hard bargain in any transaction over the dam-whether in terms of electricity tariff or a purchase price for the entire dam. Since even the SESCO could be privatised from the state government-could the Bakun Dam be 1 day, `privatised’/sold to a politician for a song-as his pension money? Could the negotiation over the terms of departure of the CM the only thing which hold up the state elections?
Sarawak wants to buy Bakun

by Samuel Aubrey
August 27, 2010, Friday(Borneo Post)

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Voter registration race continue-PAS Kelantan won over UMNO

PAS Kelantan tops in recruiting new voters

Thursday, 26 August 2010 13:29
abdul-fatah-harun-kelantan-pasKOTA BARU – Records provided by the Election Commision (EC) in the first six months of 2010 have shown that PAS registered a total of 15,853 voters – about 10,000 more than Umno.

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Amendments to election laws criple appeals

Several amendments to the election laws has been found to cripple appeals against election results. The court has all but been robbed of its review function on election matters, leaving whatever else to be struck out by bias election judges on whimsical technical grounds.

选举上诉案多因技术撤销
改条例以审理有根据投诉

作者／本刊曾薛霏 Aug 24, 2010 02:49:18 pm

选举上诉难（上）

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Anti-Taib voices gather steam!

Recent trends see Sarawakians and wider community getting organised more and more aginst the longest staying Chief Minister Taib Mahmud: the Sarawak Reports kicked start with a series of explosive reports on Taib’s inexplicable overseas wealth; then there is a Movement For Change Sarawak (MFCS)spearheaded by veteran journalist Francis Paul-who reportedly meet great reception for his non-party linked movement; and lately there is also another group who started a Taib Must Go facebook and tweeter page-both of which allegedly attracted snowballing responses! With such development Taib’s days is certainly numbered-as reflected by his reported offer to step down.

But will his stepping down solve all the problems in Sarawak? How about the huge machineries he set up to suppress the people there? The great wealth which was squeezed from the exploitation of Sarawak’s natural resources-which should have been used to benifit the people rather than keep them in adject poverty?

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