This weekend in Melikin police stood by and watched as a bulldozer destroyed the public bridge that had been built by the state to give access to the local people. It was an act of revenge by loggers, who are angry that these people have been trying to protect their Native Customary Lands from being […]
Australia’s longest-running and highly prestigious TV current affairs programme, Dateline, has just devoted a full half hour show to the problems of logging in Sarawak and to Taib Mahmud’s crazy plan to build 12 more dams in the state Their veteran reporter, David O’Shea, spent days filming in Sarawak and interviewing people who had been
Five campaigners from Melikin in Balai Ringen were arrested last week after false accusations were made against them by a plantation company. They were later released without charge. We can reveal that the owners of the companies that are grabbing their land are two of Taib Mahmud’s top Ministers!
The people who have been taking action against injustice are changing the mood in Sarawak at a faster and faster pace. Their courage and determination are sweeping away the history of the last decades of destruction[..]
Sime Darby is Malaysia’s largest company and the world’s largest palm oil conglomerate. It is predominately owned and controlled by the Malaysian Government. So, maybe little surprise that it is enmeshed in corruption, as laid bare by the arrest and charges against its former Chief Executive this week over the misappropriation of millions of ringgit.
Fear of gangsters is widespread in Sarawak and with good reason. These are the operators outside the law who enforce the greedy land grabs and logging concessions handed out by Taib to his cronies. By using gangsters, Taib and his business partners avoid being directly implicated and can pretend to have nothing to do with
All human beings can understand justice. Where there is injustice it is up to our law-makers to legislate to prevent it and then for our courts to uphold those laws. But in Sarawak, where growing numbers of poor communities are being forced to desperate measures to save their lands and livelihoods, we often see the courts
Tens of thousands of families are being forced from their homes by Taib’s fanatical dam projects across the state.However, there is another equally devastating piece-meal process of eviction going on, as plantation companies continue to bully the longhouse folk from their native lands. As the Ibans of Rumah Niah dress for ‘war’, have Taib’s land grabbers pushed too far this time?
Today the Iban communities of Sebangan are celebrating yet another victory against Taib and the BN government of Sarawak. These people own the rights to one of the last remaining areas of un-destroyed rainforest in the region north of Kuching. However, Taib’s greedy sister Raziah could not bear to think of those trees still left
According to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) documents obtained by Sarawak Report, Malaysia’s Foreign Minister, Anifar Aman, has been the secret beneficiary of lucrative timber licences in Sabah’s dwindling Forest Reserves. The concessions came thanks to his brother, the local Chief Minister, Musa Aman. The documents form part of a major investigation by the MACC into
Today Sarawak Report has decided to take a respite from investigative activity and to allow some pictures to speak for themselves. In a recent statement, the Taib-owned timber company, Ta Ann, has sought to refute concerns that it is responsible for environmental degeneration and human exploitation in Sarawak. It has also accused Radio Free Sarawak
We can demonstrate that Malaysia’s Deputy Foreign Minister, the BN/SUPP MP for Serian Richard Riot, has also been involved in the disgusting practice of profiting out of projects meant for his own constituency. In this case a RM9.3million ringgit road building project has been awarded to a company he controls through his son, Akjaemura Jaya
Over recent days, PRS leader James Masing has attempted to defend the indefensible regarding his political persecution of a disabled man and his admission that he and his deputy sought kickbacks for NCR lands, taken for plantations. So, we await his excuses over our latest information[..]
The highly effective campaign to prevent Taib’s family company Ta Ann from destroying Tasmania, like Sarawak, is making Pinocchios out of politicians there! Last week the state’s Deputy Premier, Bryan Green, was subjected to national humiliation when he became the top story on Australia’s ABC news for supporting the company’s claims [..]
The people of Baram have been sold down their own river by their native MP, the Federal Deputy Trade & Industry Minister Jacob Sagan!
Sarawak Report has received exclusive information, indicating that the local man’s support for Taib’s plans to flood his own area has been bought by two large timber concessions[..]
These are the scenes they have been trying to hide, by setting up an exclusion zone to prevent NGOs and journalists from entering the region behind the Bakun Dam. However, Bruno Manser Fund workers have managed to breech that barrier in order to get exclusive pictures of the devastation behind the dam, which has now
For the first time people in the UK are beginning to wake up to the Malaysian High Commissioner, who turns out to be a fellow called Datuk Seri Zakaria Sulong. This is because he has just made the most extraordinary series of insensitive and highly undiplomatic remarks, if a report by the Borneo Post is
One very old adage is that you can’t bring your material wealth into the next world. Plenty of ancient cultures hoped otherwise, packing fabulous riches into the tombs and pyramids of greedy past rulers. But it was the tomb raiders who had the last laugh on them. More recent sufferers from excessive greed have invested
Two of Britain’s top chain stores have been caught out deceiving their customers over ‘eco-friendly’ wood by our latest Sarawak expose, which has also been taken up by the leading UK paper, the Daily Mail. We can demonstrate that B & Q and Wickes, which both specialise in selling building and decorating materials, have been
The Conservative Party’s ex-Environment Spokesman, Bill Wiggin, agreed to play a starring role in videos promoting Sime Darby, after enjoying a luxury trip to Malaysia sponsored by the company. The palm oil giant, headed by former Deputy PM Musa Hitam, has been exposed as a major client of FBC Media, the disgraced British public relations
Bruno Manser Fund’s research team have done the world another favour. They have conducted a careful and painstaking analysis of the leaked Land & Survey Department information…we can now see clearly the extraordinary extent of the theft carried out by the Chief Minister and his family of Sarawak’s native and state-owned lands[..]
The Chief Minister of Sarawak faces the humiliation of being prosecuted for cheating members of his own community in a Kuching court. Some of the potential plaintiffs are among his own constituents! [..]
In a dramatic move, a group of NGOs have today called on the Malaysian Attorney General and the Commissioner of Police to arrest Abdul Taib Mahmud! A letter drawn up by the Bruno Manser Fund and signed by a number of Malaysian and international NGOs, including Greenpeace, requests [..]
It is time the forces of law and order came to the assistance of the Penan people, who are bravely continuing to resist the illegal destruction of Sarawak’s rainforest by Taib Mahmud’s logging cronies. Instead they are helping the loggers tear down Penan blockades to protect their native lands
Taib Mahmud is betraying big weaknesses with his useless attempts to shut up questions in Parliament about his family corruption and then to have those questions removed from the official records [..]
