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Local women bodies yesterday decried the decision made by Minister of Environment and Public Health, Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh, for allowing the extension of operation hours of massage and reflexology centres until 2.30am.

Wong had announced after a meeting with members of the Kuching Division Complementary Health Care Establishment Association in Kuching Thursday, the extension of the operating hours from midnight to 2.30am.

“What man in the right frame of mind will visit massage and reflexology centres at these wee hours,” questioned the chairperson of P. 217 Women, Family and Community Development Council, Hajah Sultan Fatimah Sheikh Ismail.

Women bodies decry Soon Koh’s decision She said like every housewife, she would be very anxious if her husband failed to return home after midnight.

“I strongly object the minister’s decision in allowing the extension of operation hours,” she said, adding that the men should spend more time with their children and wives at home after working the whole day.

“In fact, there are al ready too many such centres in most major towns in Sarawak. I think the relevant authorities should cease issuing any more licences to any new establishment,” she said.

Assistant secretary of Bintulu Chinese Women Association, Lau Yu Siang, said she also did not approve the extension of operating hours.

“We know that most workers in such centres come from China and that many men of weak character would easily ‘go astray’ after undergoing a session or two of feminine touch.

“If the men truly want to get a massage or foot reflexology service, they can go earlier in the day. Why do they have to patronise the centres after midnight,” she asked.

Lau said she would not object if the men patronised such centres once in a while instead of regularly.

Chairperson of Serakup Indu Dayak Sarawak (SIDS) Bintulu Branch, Nuai Gema was also not in favour of the setting up of too many such centres in Sarawak.

“We have enough social problems to deal with in our own society.

We do not want to see new social problems like families breaking up as a result of the influx of foreign workers, who are mostly young and attractive, in massage and reflexology centres.

She added that all women would feel worried if their husbands started coming home around 3am, exhausted, and had to wake up again about 6am to send the children to schools, before they themselves went to work.

“Perhaps, the extension of operating hours can be applied only during the weekends instead of the whole week,” she proposed.

Nuai also called on Immigration and Labour departments to ensure that those foreign workers were truly certified and qualified masseurs and foot reflexologists.

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They already have a West Malaysian Political Party amongst them (that is Progressive Peoples Party aka PPP). During the recently concluded Sibu By Election, Murugiah was on hand to help campaign for SUPP’s Candidate Robert Lau.

So brace yourself Sarawak Barisan Nasional. You need all the training to embrace West Malaysian Style politics, especially the instigation which PPP Youth experts in.

On a side note, Murugiah have since joined MIC and will we see MIC Opening up shop here as the supporters employ similar “lebih kurang” tactics to instigate opposition supporters.

Sarawak is sizzling with speculations of a snap election and the state Barisan Nasional is not leaving room for a Peninsular-style election campaign to catch them off-guard. “Once is painful enough,” said a Miri-based source alluding to the displeasure voiced by several leaders in relation to the “street-style” campaigning and cyber attacks initiated by peninsular-based opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat during the Sibu by-election.

Yesterday, huddled in Damai Beach Resort, some 200 grassroots state BN party leaders from Kuching, Samarahan and Sri Aman devised ways to counter what they believe will be a potentially explosive campaign by the opposition in the coming state election.

Sarawak BN comprises Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP), Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SUPP) and Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS).

PBB deputy chief Abang Johari Openg, who was secretive about the content of the meeting, said the meeting was a result of a directive from the national BN.

“All I can say is that members of the state BN must be prepared for the next election. They must know BN’s approach and be aware of the latest election laws and regulations.

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The above Video first appeared at Malaysia Chronicle, you may find the comments there interesting.

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Tun Ling Liong Sik was charged in court yesterday. It sent shocks to the MCA. MCA must now feel betrayed. After all Ling Liong Sik was one of us- us being one of those important leaders of the BN in those halcyon days.

Indeed, Ling Liong Sik was PM of Malaysia for a few hours when Tun M was party-less for that few hours when old UMNO was deregistered and a new UMNO was being formed. What if Ling Liong Sik did say at that time- go and fly kite. Saya PM sekarang. You orang keluar BN.

Betrayal or is there really no honour among theiving friends

In the meantime there is wind that more arrest is expect for Corruption and most are prominent personalities.
More high-profile arrests involving Members of Parliament and state assemblymen can be expected in the next few days following the arrest of former MCA president and ex-Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik on corruption charges related to the Port Klang Free Zone financial debacle.

Blitz on graft: More arrests on the way, including MPs, ADUNs

While all this from the otherside of South China Sea, Sarawakians meanwhile have to just wait to know PM Najib amd MACC is going to sweep our 4 complaints against Abdul Taib Mahmud, besides launching investigations into Sarawak State Government, The Ministers for alleged wrong doing in Abdul Taib Mahmud’s 29 years rule.

Beware, the well informed do not buy any more stories and explanations given by liers in Sarawak Barisan Nasional. Only concrete action against wrong doers the likes of Abdul Taib Mahmud and the Ministers in Abdul Taib Mahmud’s Cabinet will convince them to support Barisan nasional.

We quote once again a comment by a Barisan Nasional Sarawak Insider:

We all know Taib Mahmud is corrupt and have abused his position for his own and cronys gain, eg the new DUN Building. We feel if we want to fight for change and get rid of Taib Mahmud, it have to be done from within!

If we can not, we join him and enrich ourselves.

The commentator further added that if we can not get close to Taib Mahmud, we will do it when Sulaiman is the Chief Minister of Sarawak!

Over to you MACC and PM Najib!

No amount of words can describe this shameless Thief and his entourage of bandits from Sarawak.

If MACC and Federal Government fail to come clean on the 4 complaints lodged against The Thief Minister of Sarawak Right Honourable (Yang Kasihi) Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, the demonstration in foreign countries will embarass the Malaysian Government.

Say what you like, the rakyat have no other choice to present their grouses and demonstration seem to be the way to go and fully justified.

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If the people of Oxford had not heard of Abdul Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak, until today, they certainly know all about him now. His visit, tied to Sarawak’s heavy sponsorship of the Said Business School’s ‘Inaugural Global Islamic Branding and Marketing Forum’, was supposed to buy him credibility. In the event it ended up as a public relations disaster, as his reputation preceded him and was stuck up on banner headlines by protesters outside.

Even though it is the sleepy summer holiday period, a colourful crowd of demonstrators descended on the School to express their outrage that the University should have welcomed such a man and accepted such dubious sponsorship from the Timber Industry of Sarawak. The local press was soon on the scene, followed by Malaysian news teams, who had clearly been brought along to puff up the Chief Minister’s profile. Even the flunkies could not ignore a demo like this and they were soon filming, taking notes and conducting interviews.

Panic Reaction

Panic and concern was soon evident amongst the organisers, who called the police and sent an army of Special Branch officers to photograph the protesters, who were banned from entering the building by anxious bouncers. The School, clearly taking no risks, had hired a phalanx of extra personnel to protect their awkward guest and to block entry to the clearly highly-respectable gathering of locals and some Malaysians who had come to explain to Oxford exactly what they were dealing with. Many reminded the organisers that the criminals were the ones inside, while the people outside were lawfully making a very valid protest.

The forest of banners said it all. “Taib Mahmud Declare The Source Of Your Wealth”, “How Much Forest Is Left?”, “Respect Native Customary Rights”, ”Stop Sexual Harassment and Rape of Penan Women and Children”, “Save Sarawak”, “The EU banned illegal timber, Why won’t you sign the VPA?” and much more. Passers-by were handed leaflets and a string of civil society groups meanwhile coordinated across Britain to produce and sign a declaration of protest that is now being handed to Oxford University. One organisation, Forests Monitor, stated:

“For decades Taib has headed a regime which has ridden rough shod over the rights of indigenous and local peoples in Sarawak, treating the province like a personal fiefdom, worse even than his colonial predecessors. He has overseen the abuse of Sarawak’s own laws and profited enormously from it. By taking his money the Oxford Said School for Business is setting the worst possible example for its alumni. They too should be demanding answers from the Dean, who apparently considers himself an expert in corporate governance”.

Bundled in through the back entrance

The protest certainly denied Taib his grand entrance. He had been due to arrive in style, greeted by the University’s Vice Chancellor (the sponsorship must have been huge) to give the opening speech for the two-day conference, but he ended up being sneaked in past the protesters and ushered in through the back of the building. A break-away group who spotted his entry surrounded his car and waived their banners in disgust.

According to the protesters the police, who, unlike in Sarawak, do not see it as their duty to interfere with legitimate freedom of expression, remained a good natured and supportive presence throughout. One said:

“We needed that even-handed support, because the University bouncers were out of order. I was roughly manhandled out of the building after taking a photograph of the Chief Minister, which was stupid as scores of his own people were filming him too”.

The protester went on to say:

”I am concerned that the Said Business School, which used Oxford’s tradition of free speech as its excuse for taking Taib Mahmud’s money and receiving him in this way, should deny us our chance to come in and voice the truth about what is happening in Sarawak. Will the School be willing to receive some speakers from Malaysia’s repressed opposition in the near future? or can we expect the next move to be an Honorary Doctorate for Taib Mahmud?”

The image and the reality

Meanwhile, as the conference got underway, the disadvantages of the School’s modernist architecture were becoming plain to the embarrassed delegates. The great glass front to the main forum provided an unwelcome ‘Goldfish Bowl’ effect as the people outside were able to look in and photograph the awkward attempts to carry on as normal. Inside, a kitsch display area, of the type favoured by Taib, promoted a ‘tourist image’ of Sarawak with cuddly orang utan toys and a live Dayak music troupe in full ‘national costume’. They confirmed they had been transported with the Chief Minister’s enormous cavalcade from Sarawak.

Concern about the Tanjung Manis Project

Alongside, was a mass of information about the Chief Minister’s new drive to turn Malaysia’s Christian State into the world’s biggest Halal Products Hub, with the help of massive investment, much of it from the Middle East.

Concern soon developed among the protesters as the information available indicates that the Hub is set to destroy 70,000 more hectares of valuable mangrove area and lowland peat forest – zones, described in Tanjung Manis literature as being uselessly unproductive in their current state. Information has leaked out that experts from Oxford University have been consulting Sarawak on this so-called ‘Green Development Project’. The questions and protests against Oxford’s ill-judged event will not end here and the Tanjung Manis Project may discover that instead of finding investors on its UK trip it has acquired unwelcome notoriety instead.

Taib’s Party Falls Flat

As Taib left after his speech the demonstrators’ success in photographing him both from inside the conference hall and the outside, through the glass, created havoc amongst Taibs security men. Burlesque scenes ensued as they rushed round the building lowering blinds and pulling screens in front of the glass walls to protect their horrified boss from the glare of unwelcome publicity.

It was clearly a rare and unnerving experience for Taib Mahmud, a specialist in managed press and mass personal protection. As the laughter grew on the outside, his party on the inside was publicly ruined. That’s the problem with turning up in a free country Taib and we bet you think twice about doing it again any time soon.

It was an awkward exit (shit should be flung and thrown at them) for The Thief and hos entiurage!

Sarawak Report