Proof that BN disrespects and breaks the constitution

Why should only a private citizen sue the Barisan Nasional, Federal
Government? Why not any of the opposition parties?

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/3/19/courts/8300501&sec=courts

Saturday March 19, 2011
Court voids amendment on appointment of JCs

KOTA KINABALU: An amendment to the Constitution to take away the power
of appoin-ting judicial commissioners (JCs) by the heads of state of
Sabah and Sarawak has been declared null and void by the High Court
here.

Justice Datuk David Wong Dak Wah in his landmark judgment said the
1994 amendment to Article 122AB of the Constitution was invalid as it
did not have the consent of the two states.

He said the amendment affected the operation of the Constitution as it
removed the power of the appointment of JCs by the respective Yang di-
Pertua Negri of Sabah and Sara-wak.

Prior to the 1994 amendment, the appointment of JCs to the High Courts
of Sabah and Sarawak was done by the governors on the advice of the
Chief Judge of the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak.

In allowing the suit brought by retired policeman Robert Linggi
against the Federal Government, Justice Wong also declared null and
void Section 37 of the Judicial Appointments Commission Act, which
empowers the Prime Minister to amend any provision of the Act by way
of a gazette.

However, he dismissed the claim by Linggi, who is from Keningau, that
the Judicial Appointments Commission Act (except for Section 37) was
unconstitutional.

In his suit filed on March 13, 2009, Linggi, who was represented by
Datuk Lawrence Thien, had among others, sought a declaration that the
removal of the power of appointment of JCs to the High Courts of Sabah
and Sarawak by the heads of the two states was null and void.

In his 39-page written judgment delivered on March 15 and made
available on Thursday, Justice Wong said Article 161E (2) prohibits
amendments to the Federal Constitution without the consent of the
governors "if the amendment is such as to affect the operation of the
(Federal) Constitution with regard to the constitution and
jurisdiction of the High Courts of Sabah and Sarawak."

The Government was represented by Senior Federal Counsels Suzana Atan
and Narkuna-vathy Sundereson.

On the contention by the Government that Linggi had no locus standi to
bring the suit, Justice Wong ruled that "all Malaysians have a duty to
protect our constitution."

Sabah, the poorest in the world has no starving people???

Sabah, being the poorest in the whole world, is not even told to
Malaysians, let alone the huge number of starving people in Sabah
being reported.

If Doni, committed suicide because his classmates laughed at him for
eating starvation level diet in the centre of a city, Kota Kinabalu,
with the most updated infrastructure in the poor state of Sabah,
getting a government subsidi, JUST IMAGINE the people in the remote
places, where statistics show the REAL POOR really ARE.

Kota Kinabalu is not listed as the poor areas in Sabah, and yet there
are many students living on starvation diet, rice with boiled kangkong
picked up from the drains. If you don't call that starvation diet, you
must be crazy.

Muhiddin must therefore be crazy if he thinks that eating just rice
everyday is not starvation diet. Many other people in Sabah, also eat
similar diet. You don't even have 1 US dollar per day because you are
unemployed. Unemployment is the highest in Sabah.

China and India are much richer than Sabah. Just imagine how come
nobody is ACKNOWLEDGED as living on starvation diet. BN is just a
bunch of liars manipulating statistics.

To make matters worse, Sabah has much more resources than China and
Indian combined together. How come SAbah can be the POOREST IN THE
WORLD???

Simple. NONE OF THE RESOURCES ARE FOR SABAH. All petroleum resources
go to Malaya via expensive gas pipelines costing BILLIIONS OF RM.

With a SO CALLED PROMISED 5%, but unaudited, it is more like much
less than 1%, or NEGLIGIBLE. Not even enough to cover maintenance of
the foreign workers employed for these gas pipelines and the
environmental loss that led to the poverty of the locals. Just use
your imagination to calculate how much is 150 RM million per year for
the past 30 years. Is it really 5%??? Price of petrol has gone up 1000
percent. It may have been 5% 30 years ago, after price and volume
increases, it is much less than 0.1% remaining. It had been increased
to 400 million, i.e. from 0.1% to 0.4%!!!!

In another 30 years it become 0.04%!!!!

If you don't believe, than explain why Sabah GDP grows 4%, while
Malaya grows 9%!!!!
Malaysia is 7%.. Malaysia includes Sabah so it pulls down Malaysian
overall GDP.

With MInisters like Muhidin that don't know that Kinabatangan is
BIGGER THAN PAHANG.
No wonder, they only give 20 million for Sabahan poor, the 3RD behind
Trengganu and Pahang.

And these are only for fishermen who are registered. If you have no
money, how can you even register??? tell me honestly. You still think
that there are no starving people in Sabah!!! Idiot.

Stop whining, poor Sabahans told
Charlie Rudai
| March 4, 2011

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has admitted that the
government is unable to do much for the landless and hardcore poor
mainly due to incompetence of its leaders.

TONGOD: Poor Sabahans should stop whinning and be satisfied with their
lot because the poverty situation in Sabah was not as bad as that
faced by citizens in China and India.

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said that since starvation did
not exist in Malaysia, there should be no complaints about the poverty
situation in the state.

Drawing comparisons with countries like China, India and other
developed countries, he said that unlike others there had been no
reports of people dying of starvation in Malaysia.

He said that in some countries the poverty issue was so critical that
some of the people there were earning about one dollar a day and
coping with the issue of starvation unlike Malaysia.

Last year, the World Bank Report revealed Sabah to be the poorest
state in Malaysia. According to the report, 40% of Malaysia's poor
were centred in Sabah, which incidentally is an oil and gas hub. The
state government, however, has vehemently disputed the categorisation.

Muhyiddin also made a staggering revelation that the Barisan Nasional
(BN) government has been unable to do much for the landless and
hardcore poor in the country mainly due to incompetence of its
leaders.

He took a swipe at ruling party political leaders for not doing their
jobs and not articulating the problems they faced.

Citing Kinabatangan, he said he had been ignorant until now that the
constituency is much bigger than Pahang, and was shocked to know that
Tongod itself was bigger than Selangor.

Muhyiddin claimed it was not easy to bring development to Sabah until
political leaders went down to the ground to study and understand the
needs of the people.

Infrastructure projects

He sees the whole problem of poverty eradication and development as an
infrastructure issue.

"So how to bring development to Sabah and Sarawak? … the only way is
to provide better infrastructure.

"In this respect, Sabah and Sarawak get the priority from the federal
government… millions of ringgit are being poured in to implement
infrastructure projects.

"I monitor every month and listen to the ministers during meetings,"
he said, adding that under the 10th Malaysia Plan, RM320 million had
been approved for various projects in the Kinabatangan parliamentary
constituency alone.

However, he said that the government would give out funds according to
priority and not all at once to prevent bankrupting the country.

"It is like in a family: when you give a present to one child, the
other children also want it but a family with a small income would not
be able to do so.

"Similarly, the nation will go bankrupt if it fulfils the demands of
all the people," he said.

Muhyiddin assured that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak was focused on
the National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) to propel the country to a high-
income nation by improving the economy and living standards of the
people.

"Our prime minister is focused and as his deputy, I sit with him every
week in various economic development meetings," he said, adding that
last year Malaysia had achieved a 7.2% growth, which not many country
could claim.

Communal land titles

He also defended the BN's record on poverty eradication, saying the BN
government had made extraordinary achievements as far as reducing and
eradicating poverty in the country is concerned compared to pre-
independence days when the poverty rate was 98%.

In an almost election-like campaign speech at the Kampung Simpang
Entilibon field here yesterday, he claimed the BN never stopped
thinking about how to bring development to the people and lauded Chief
Minister Musa Aman for granting communal land titles to the landless
and distributing dividend payments to the hardcore poor.

"Ask any other states (in Malaysia) or in other countries if they are
doing what the Sabah state government is doing… none.

"The BN government realises that the people still yearn for
development," he said.

Muhyiddin, who is also Education Minister, said he was briefed on the
poor education situation in Sabah schools.

"It was supposed to be a 20-minute briefing but it went on for more
than an hour and I said last night that if it cannot be solved, then
we should form a committee so that the education facilities in Sabah
are not only at par with the rest of the country but are also better,"
he said.

Libya can produce petrochemicals for local use even in crisis

Despite the turmoils, Libya's Eastern part where only about 1.4
million people live is still capable of producing petrochemicals for
local consumption. Petrol as well as cooking gas.

Sabah, which also produces light petroleum and gas, cannot produce
anything for local consumption. Everything has to be exported to
Malaya 1000km away. Sabah has a much higher population of 3.4 million
than even this eastern part of Libya.

Even in times of crisis, oil production is not affected. It is the
lack of shipping that is hindering export of oil and gas.

I wonder where the money goes to. With the sanctions on Gaddafi's
regime, the money should go to the interim government of Libya in
Benghazi.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=134090660

Turmoil Rocks Libya's Oil Sector, Slashing Output

by The Associated Press

BREGA, Libya February 26, 2011, 08:05 pm ET

The massive oil terminal at Brega feels strangely deserted for Libya's
second-largest hydrocarbon complex. After more than a week of turmoil
in the country, production has been scaled back by almost 90 percent
with many employees fleeing and ships not coming to collect its
products.

The most activity on the site Saturday appeared to be a squad of boys
from the nearby town finishing the job of tearing apart the local
headquarters of Moammar Gadhafi's Revolutionary Committee.

The seaside Brega complex, some 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of the
rebel stronghold of Benghazi, collects crude oil and gas from Libya's
fields in the southeast and prepares it for export. It also produces
some petrochemicals and refined products for local consumption.

Since the crisis began on Feb. 15, however, General Manager Fathi
Eissa said the facility has had to scale back production dramatically
from 90,000 barrels of crude a day to just 11,000.

There are no reliable figures about the impact of the uprising against
Gadhafi on Libya's oil exports, but facilities across the country have
been forced to make sharp cuts. Most Libyan ports — the main method of
export — also were closed due to bad weather, staff shortages or
production outages, according to the International Energy Agency.

The IEA, citing reports from Western producers, said overall crude
production has dropped from 1.6 million barrels per day to 850,000.
The unrest in the OPEC nation — which ranks about 17th among world oil
producers and has Africa's largest proven oil reserves — has sparked a
major spike in world oil prices.

At Brega, the huge spherical storage containers and reservoirs used to
hold natural gas and crude oil are filling up rapidly with no ships to
cart away their valuable contents.

Production in the southern fields has been throttled back until Brega
can clear some of its capacity.

"At this time we are operating with the minimum required number of
operators, technicians mainly," Eissa said. "The production from the
fields right now is at minimum, it is not completely stopped but it is
minimum."

On Saturday, a ship arrived to collect some ammonia and methanol, but
it was one of only a few since the troubles began.

Brega has continued to pump natural gas for local consumption along
the coastal pipeline that is keeping the power plants and desalination
plants running, as well as providing the people with cooking gas
canisters.

Ahmed Jerksi, the chairman of the manager's office and a 40 year
veteran of the company, estimated the terminal was operating with just
45 percent of its normal manpower.

Many employees left amid rumors that Gadhafi was going to bomb the
plant and its volatile contents, while others feared for their
families, he said.

The neighboring petrochemical complex of Ras Lanouf, some 60 miles
(100 kilometers) to the west has experienced similar drops in manpower
and has had to cut production down to similar levels, Jerksi said.

Ras Lanouf is also perilously close to the town of Sirte, one of the
last holdouts for Gadhafi loyalists in central Libya, raising concern
about clashes in the area.

The Gulf of Sidra is critical to Libya's energy exports. The ports of
As Sidra, Marsa el Brega, Ras Lanuf, Tobruk and Zuetina handle about
77 percent of Libya's oil exports. Allegiances in the Gulf of Sidra
and the economic value they represent, therefore, are key to the
survival of Gadhafi's regime.

Libya's uprising came to the Brega complex on Feb. 20 when inhabitants
of the nearby village appeared at the gates and said the complex was
now with the revolution. The facility's guards let them in and they
went around and tore down the many pictures of Gadhafi.

The local headquarters of the Revolutionary Committee was also
trashed, with air-conditioning units pulled out of the walls and a
large-screen projection TV knocked over.

By Saturday, a group of youths had little to do besides smash windows
and set fire to a picture of Gadhafi.

"We are with the revolution," said Eissa, the general manager. "We are
supporting the change by keeping operations running to avoid the
country's collapse."

Many of Brega's 600 foreign workers — mostly from Britain and other
European countries — were preparing to evacuate. The British frigate
HMS Cumberland, which took evacuees from Benghazi to Malta, is set to
return to pick up many of Brega's workers. They missed an earlier
evacuation at Benghazi because of the poor state of communications in
the country.

Marianne Steeley of Britain has been working on and off at Brega since
1981 and is hoping her absence won't be long.

"Everybody's erring on the side of caution and they've certainly
dialed down the oil and gas operation here and the ammonia plant,
everything's been sort of kept on a very cautious level," she said. "I
think they are trying desperately to get things going as soon as
possible, I would certainly be very happy to return once things are
sorted."

Even Africa reports on Sabah's cancellation of Coal Power

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL3E7DH01Y20110217

Malaysia scraps Sabah coal power plant project
Thu Feb 17, 2011 1:07am GMT

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KUALA LUMPUR Feb 17 (Reuters) - Malaysia's federal and Sabah state
governments have scrapped a plan to build a coal-fired power plant
meant to meet the state's energy needs, the Star newspaper reported on
Thursday.

Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman said national power producer Tenaga
Nasional and national oil corporation Petroliam Nasional Bhd
(Petronas) have been asked to come up with an alternative solution to
replace the proposed 300-megawatt coal-fired plant in Lahad Datu.

"Sabah needs to increase its power supply to meet the increasing
development but the state cannot afford to put its natural environment
at risk," he said.

Environmental groups campaigned against the building of the power
plant after it was proposed in 2007. (Reporting by Julie Goh)

© Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved

Malays in Sabah grow by 1,552%!!!

"Look, in those 30 years the Kadazan-Dusun-Murut community grew by
162% – a population growth that makes sense.

"But those classified as Malay grew by a staggering 1,552%. The
federal government hasn't given any solid explanation for this
staggerring rise," Chong said.

It also does not make sense for Kadazan community because in Sarawak,
population growth is only 106% and Brunei 157%. Brunei's growth is due
to immigrants from Malaysia.

It shows that there are also many migrants within the Kadazan
community as well.

As for Malays increasing at such rapid rate, it is due to immigration
from West Malaysia where everybody call themselves Malays as long as
they are Muslims.

I doubt Filipinoes will call themselves Malays because they can always
call themselves Bajau, which is one of the natives of Sabah.

However these Filipinoes like to pretend that they are West Malaysian
Malays, imitating the West Malaysian Malay dialect.

The most vocal groups in SAbah are the Kadazan Dusun communities
because they feel that they are swamped by Muslims reducing their
political influence. But this community is now supporting the current
BN government that allows this situations to occur through parties
such as PBS, UPKO and PBRS.

https://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.malaysia/post?hl=en

Sabah's tale of woes
February 20, 2011

Beyond the touristy Kota Kinabalu waterfront lies the 'hazy' reality
of Sabah's fragile social fabric.

Saturday afternoons at the markets flanking the Kota Kinabalu
waterfront are a casual affair. Tourists stroll the walkways toting
cameras, families finish buying their day's groceries, the smell of
pickled vegetables and fresh fruit intoxicates.

A line of tailors steal a nap during the lazy, shady hours. It's quite
a delight seeing those vintage Singers still in use.

And as a solitary machine goes "shik-shik-shik" in the background, the
issue about Sabah's fragile "social" fabric crops up again.

Interwoven in this tapestry is a generation of carefree children, who
neither read nor write, and who each morning leave their homes in the
settlements at Pulau Gaya and come ashore to the city's waterfront
seeking menial work – dishwashing, food preparation and packaging.

Is it fair that these children, innocent of any crime, be deprived of
a promising future because of negligence by their hosts? To them a
high-income economy and the New Economic Model are meaningless.

This is the tale of Sabah that has seen a population increase by a
stupefying 301% in 30 years (1970-2000), a phenomenon that surely
needs to be investigated closely.

Especially since neighbours Sarawak grew by 106%, and Brunei 157% in
the same time-frame.

Said former Sabah senator and activist Dr Chong Eng Leong: "Sabah's
borders were deliberately kept porous. You could enter and leave it
like a sieve."

Chong believes that foreigners and the contentious Project IC are two
of the biggest issues facing Sabah for over two decades.

Project IC, or more pointedly Project M, refers to the "allegation of
systematic granting of citizenship to immigrants (whether illegal or
legal) by giving them identity documents known as IC (identity card),
and subsequently, MyKad" .

It is an alleged covert exercise with its roots in the early 1990s to
alter the demographics of Sabah to make it more favourable to the
ruling government and certain political parties.

"Look, in those 30 years the Kadazan-Dusun-Murut community grew by
162% – a population growth that makes sense.

"But those classified as Malay grew by a staggering 1,552%. The
federal government hasn't given any solid explanation for this
staggerring rise," Chong said.

Damning evidence

But despite the issue being common conversation in the warongs and
kopitiams here and, to some degree, in the local media, investigations
into Project IC never quite reached a satisfactory momentum nor
conclusion.

Chong believes it's because the evidence is damning – it shows up in
the daily life of Sabah.

Chong has self-published a book, "Lest We Forget" (Security and
Sovereignty of Sabah), in July 2009 – a compilation of hard facts and
newspaper clippings to create public awareness of Project IC.

"Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against foreigners…They are human
beings who seek a better life; borders mean nothing to them.

"It is the lack of a political will in both the federal and state
governments to resolve this problem that gets me (upset)… They refuse
to even acknowledge it's a problem.

"Here they (foreigners) are considered a vote bank. I have collated
the reports and evidence in my book," said Chong.

He said the worst thing about Project IC and the influx of these
immigrants is the humanitarian aspect.

"You have brought (them) in as a vote bank, offered them MyKad, given
them Bumiputera status, perhaps resettled them somewhere…

"You are expected to remain grateful. No education for your children.
No proper sanitary system. No refuse collection – rubbish is disposed
of in the sea or burned in some common dumpyard nearby.

"It's an epidemic waiting to happen," he said between conversations
with the local traders at the KK Handicraft Market, commonly known
here as Pasar Filipina.

Tragic Sabahan

Chong, who speaks a variety of local dialects, believes that to
properly understand the issue of Project IC, one needs to walk the
problem. And that was what he did: one Saturday last year, he took
this writer from the Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia blogsite on a
walkabout.

The most tragic part of the problem is that Project IC has left the
genuine local Sabahan with the short end of the stick.

"You know, conditions are even worse for the natives of Sabah. Visit
their kampungs scattered all over Sabah if you can.

"They get no water or electricity supply. Let's not even mention
schools for the moment.

"We have many cases of true-blue Sabah natives who were denied MyKad
even though they have birth certificates to prove their case.

"How can a government do this to its own people?" Chong asked.

From the charm of the KK waterfront, Chong took us across the scenic
Likas Bay to Telipok, about 30 km away.

Here, two government-initiated settlements have sprung up over the
years.

Hazy meaning of "Malaysian'

Atop a hill lies Kampung Boronuon. The residents prefer to call it
Kampung Penempatan – resettled.

They were resettled from Pulau Gaya in 2001. Back then, the mayor of
Kota Kinabalu had assured the people of Telipok that the Pulau Gaya
resettlers were Malaysians.

But in this part of the world, as we were beginning to see, the
meaning of "Malaysian" can be as hazy as smog from the annual
Kalimantan fires.

In his book, "Lest We Forget", Chong cites numerous cases of dubious
citizenship. Here is a sampling:

• A Pulau Gaya fag smuggler admitted in court he is a Philippine-born
Malaysian, but his new IC is coded 12, that is, born in Sabah. His old
IC number was H0558763, and is still registered on the Sabah electoral
rolls today.

• One foreigner was convicted in 1992 for possession of fake IC and he
told the court that he got his IC through Project President Mahathir
(appendix 51 of book). He was jailed for two years and managed to get
registered in 1995 on Sabah electoral rolls after his release – was he
deported but later sneaked back? His old IC number was H0487096 and is
still on Sabah electoral rolls today.

• Salman Majid – arrested in March 2005 at KLIA and detained for 199
days at the immigration centre in Sepang… Salman stated in the "Sijil
Akuan" that he was born in Ranau, Sabah, when in fact he was born in
Pakistan. His old and new IC numbers were H0352141 and 620202-12-5053
respectively.

Salman had reportedly said about his IC: "Pada tahun 80′an saya telah
ditawarkan kad pengenalan di Sabah semasa Projek Khas. Saya telah
menerima tawaran itu bersama dengan beribu-ribu rakyat Sabah yang
lain." (In the 1980s, I was offered an identity card in Sabah under
the a speical project. I accepted the offer together with thousands of
other people in Sabah.)

Down in the valley from Kampung Penempatan lies a serpentine grouping
of houses. This is Kampung Pelarian, otherwise known as the UNHCR
Settlement Scheme. It was established in the 1970s under the care of
the UN for Filipinos fleeing from the civil war in the southern
Philippines.

Growing settlements

Although the war has long since ended and UN funds ceased, the land
continues to be inhabited.

Instead of diminishing in number, more houses are being built in this
area. A 2006 Borneo Post report said more than 1,000 dwellings are
occupying the land and growing.

In both these neighbouring settlements, life isn't super.

There aren't many in terms of amenities; there's electricity and water
supply. Waste just goes into a hole or a waterway. The residents are a
hardy lot. But the story repeats – no schooling.

At about 3pm that afternoon, we noticed a dusty van passing in front
of us along the narrow, winding lane. It stopped not far ahead, its
body listed to one side because of the potholes.

A couple of young girls – no more than 15 years old and dressed in
Tees and jeans – boarded the van.

Were they heading for their day jobs as dish-washers or other menial
jobs at the market, we wondered? Or rather, we hoped.

For it could easily be something even worse. Something like
prostitution.

It is not mere imaginings. Another excerpt from Lest We Forget:

• Six girls in vice activities in Perak in March 2002 were initially
said to be Sabahans but Sabah police chief later on corrected by
saying that they were Indonesians whose Malaysian ICs were issued by
Sabah NRD.

If all this is true, then Project IC is not merely about the story of
a power-crazed government pulling out all the stops to retain its
position.

It is also about the social repercussions which hurt the state and the
very people who were invited inside our borders.

2Million RM a day for Diesel in Sabah?

TNB subsidises RM2million a day for diesel. Do you know how much will
TNB need to subsidise if coal were produced? It could be up to RM20
million a day for COAL. Taking into account all costs, storage,
transportation and cleaning up.

And this does not include the RM2.5 billion gas pipeline to export
Sabah's gas!!!
If this gas were to be used in Sabah, there is no need to spend 2.5
billion RM, no need to subsidise any diesel at all. The most important
of all is that, it is the cleanest fuel EVER. That is why it is very
valuable for other nations but SAbah is denied its use.

Musa used to be a strong supporter of the coal power plant. Why the
sudden change of heart??? Is it caused by the coming election??? What
happens after the ELECTION????

Won't they BE RELIABLY EXPECTED TO CHANGE THE FACTS AGAIN???
Certainly!!!
They will start saying that COAL IS CHEAPER THAN GAS etc. Just as what
they have been doing now.
Notice the lack of commitment in abolishing this coal powered plant.
Musa only said that the people of SAbah objected, NOT HIM.

Guaranteed 100% that if BN wins, the coal power will continue. After
all, this is what BN believes sincerely, that COAL IS MUCH CHEAPER
THAN GAS etc. So far there is no admission of error or the slightest
sense of guilt at all from the BN parties.

SAbahans should wake up and SEE THE FACTS!!!

Bintulu LNG to generate power supply for Sabah's east coast
February 19, 2011

KOTA KINABALU, Feb 19 — Petronas and Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) will
soon be working on bringing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Bintulu
to generate alternative power supply to Sabah's east coast.

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said this was to address the
critical shortage of power supply in the east coast, especially since
the proposed coal-fired power plant project was recently scrapped.

"I know that we have a critical problem in terms of providing stable
electricity to the people in the east coast, and not many know that
TNB was subsidising RM2 million a day for diesel used in the various
independent power plants there," he said at Gerakan's Chinese New Year
and Chap Goh Mei celebrations here today.

Musa said the venture between Petronas and TNB was a directive by
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak during the recent National
Economic Action Council (NEAC) meeting, which came prior to his
meeting with the premier, together with Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri
Joseph Pairin Kitingan and state Industrial Development Minister Datuk
Raymond Tan on the proposed coal-fired power plant.

During that meeting, Musa told Najib of the Sabah people's unhappiness
over the project.

Meanwhile, Gerakan president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon said the party
fully supported the decision by the government to scrap the proposed
coal-fired power plant project, that was in line with the
sustainability concept under the New Economic Model.

"This (decision) reflects the commitment of the chief minister and the
BN (Barisan Nasional) to continue to make environment as its main
agenda. So, this is most welcome," he said.

Koh, who is also minister in the Prime Minister's Department, said the
scrapping of the project was one of three reasons for BN to smile in
the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit.

The other two, he said, were the victory in the Batu Sapi
parliamentary by-election and Gerakan receiving many new members. —
Bernama

Amazed with Sabah's 4.5% growth vs 7 for malaysia, 14 for Singapore?

And this is despite having a positive trade balance of over 2, 000%!!!
Export is 20 times import.

No wonder Sabah is the poorest in the whole world.
Despite exporting so much, very little has gone into Sabah. over 95%
goes to develop Malaya.(West Malaysia).

Musa Aman dapat pujian

<b>Pengesahan buat Musa</b>: Muhyiddin Yassin menandatangani plak
menandakan lawatannya di tamu Donggongon di Penampang. Bersamanya
ialah Musa (kiri) dan Menteri Perusahaan, Perladangan dan Komoditi,
Tan Sri Bernard Dompok.

Pengesahan buat Musa: Muhyiddin Yassin menandatangani plak menandakan
lawatannya di tamu Donggongon di Penampang. Bersamanya ialah Musa
(kiri) dan Menteri Perusahaan, Perladangan dan Komoditi, Tan Sri
Bernard Dompok.

Timbalan perdana menteri kagum dengan pencapaian Sabah

Sabah mendapat RM5.7 bilion pelaburan tahun lalu, empat kali ganda
lebih banyak pada 2008, dan walaupun berlaku kegawatan global. Jumlah
ini hampir seperlima daripada RM32.6 bilion pelaburan yang diterima
Malaysia dan meletakkan negeri di timur Malaysia ini sebagai tumpuan
pelabur asing.

Ia adalah pelaburan dalam perindustrian merangkumi sektor pembuatan
galian bukan besi hinggalah kepada produk kimia, makanan, kertas dan
kayu-kayan.

Timbalan Perdana Menteri Datuk Muhyiddin Yassin agak kagum dengan
ketahanan ekonomi Sabah yang dijangka berkembang di antara 4 peratus
dan 4.5 peratus tahun ini. Ketika lawatan selama tiga hari di Sabah,
Muhyiddin berasa selesa membiarkan perkara berkaitan ekonomi selamat
di tangan Ketua Menteri Sabah, Datuk Musa Aman yang bekerja tanpa
mengenal penat untuk menjauhkan negeri ini daripada kesan kemelesetan
ekonomi dunia.

Sebaliknya, beliau mengalihkan perhatian kepada kekurangan sekolah di
Sabah yang menyaksikan banyak sekolah rendah berkongsi bangunan dengan
sekolah menengah. Sebagai menteri pendidikan, Muhyiddin berkata,
beliau berasa terkilan dengan keadaan itu dan berjanji untuk membuat
perubahan.

Dalam dialog dengan ahli perniagaan, Muhyiddin berkata, keseimbangan
jualan semula Sabah memberinya RM2.3 bilion. Kemelesetan melengahkan
eksport pada tahun lalu. Namun, Sabah masih mengeksport RM2.4 bilion
nilai komoditi primari, terutamanya minyak mentah sawit manakala ia
mengimport hanya RM125.5 juta hasil produk - kebanyakannya barangan
pengguna dan jentera. – Insight Sabah