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Showing posts with label Sarawak Election 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sarawak Election 2011. Show all posts

Suspicious scenes!

Sarawak Report has obtained photographs of the tampered ballot boxes at the centre of the election controversy in Senadin.  During an election which was swamped with tales of bribery and vote-rigging, the shenanigans surrounding this seat in the Miri region nevertheless stood out.

The bemused PKR candidate, Dr Michael Teo, who appeared to be comfortably leading until the last hour or so of the count, at which point the lights in the area suddenly went out and caused a confusion from

Greenhorn in a hot seat

Chiew, at 27, is the youngest DAP candidate in
the election.
In late December last year, Christina Chiew’s tenancy agreement expired and she had to move in with a friend while waiting for her new home to be ready. For two months, she lived in Batu Kawah, a small town about an hour’s drive from Kuching.

There she learnt that the residents either bought electrical poles with their own money or went without electricity. She rolled up her pants leg during bouts of torrential rain when floodwater would rise to alarming levels within an hour. And she witnessed the life of hardship that farmers and vegetable sellers lead.

SENARAI PENCALONAN MENGIKUT STATUS KEPUTUSAN PENCALONAN BAGI PILIHAN RAYA UMUM DUN SARAWAK KE-10

P. 192 - MAS GADING
N. 1 - OPAR 1 . STEPHEN ANAK SAGIR SNAP
2 . JOSEPH JINDY ANAK PETER ROSEN BEBAS
3 . BONIFACE WILLY ANAK TUMEK PKR
4 . RANUM ANAK MINA BN
N. 2 - TASIK BIRU 1 . PETER NANSIAN ANAK NGUSIE BN
2 . FRANKIE JUREM ANAK NYOMBUI SNAP
3 . JOHN TENEWI NUEK @ JOHN TENEWI PKR

Top 10 hot seats

THE polls is shaping up to be one of the most exciting in years with many seats expected to see multi-cornered fights. Here’s our pick of hot seats.

Sarawak takes centrestage

THE 10th state election is going to be a keenly-contested affair. It pits Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud in what will be his final election against a more organised and ambitious Opposition.

BN upbeat despite Taib and bible issues

Minister Nazri says the Sarawak CM is innocent of
corruption until proven guilty and the Al-Kitab
controversy is a non-issue.
TAIPING: Umno claims that Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud is not a liability for Barisan Nasional despite widely publicised allegations that he has abused power and committed corruption.

Taib’s cousin going for broke to reclaim Balingian

Family affair: Salleh (left) and MoCS president Francis Siah at Kuching International Airport Tuesday.

KUCHING: It will be a battle of the cousins in Balingian, where the Chief Minister is the incumbent.

Datuk Salleh Jafaruddin, former deputy education minister and PBB deputy secretary-general, announced his candidacy against his second cousin Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud at Kuching International Airport yesterday.

Pakatan promises Sarawak religious freedom, more cash

KUCHING, April 5 — Pakatan Rakyat (PR) pledged today to form a land reform commission, freedom of religion in any language and RM400 a month for senior citizens if the pact’s three parties of the DAP, PKR and PAS win next week’s Sarawak state election.

PKR names its cream of the crop for S’wak polls

KUCHING: Sarawak PKR today announced an assortment of candidates, described by PKR deputy president Azmin Ali as the “best” to fight the state BN.

Among the 48 candidates are medical doctors, PhD holders, lawyers, engineers, accountants, businessmen and former senior civil servants.

S'wak polls: Taib leaves early while Ba’Kelalan candidate not named

KUCHING: The much-anticipated announcement of the Barisan Nasional's candidate list came with a few surprises the candidate for Ba'Kelalan was not named and Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud was not present.

BN drops Taib’s ‘baby’ Sng

KUCHING: When Adenan Satem, special advisor to the Chief Minister, announced the Barisan Nasional candidates for the upcoming state polls yesterday, conspicuously missing were a number of old faces including Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Speaker Asfia Awang Nasar and two assistant ministers Soon Choon Teck and Larry Sng.

Sng keeps mum over his status

KUCHING: Partyless Pelagus assemblyman Larry Sng, who is uncertain about his fate in the coming state election, is still tight-lipped over his current status.

Sng, who is also state Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister's Office, said it was better for him not to comment if his frequent visits back to his constituency was part of his preparation for the coming polls, which must be held by July next year.

"It's difficult to say or not to say (on contesting)," he told reporters when asked to comment on his status after launching the Laboratory Safety Institute (LSI) Asia-Pacific Regional Office, here, today.

Last week, Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP) president George Chan confirmed that Sng was not among the 19 potential SUPP candidates identified for the state polls.

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