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 KOTA KINABALU, 5 Feb 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) leaders visited
the Kampung Air shopping area, here, distributing Chinese New Year
greeting cards to retailers and members of the public.
SAPP President Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee and other party leaders took the
opportunity to greet retailers and public members during the visit, which
was made in conjunction with the coming Lunar New Year on Feb 14.
The party also invited public members to attend the SAPP Chinese New Year
2010 Open House (Xin Chun 2010) to be held at the Kian Kok Middle School
on Feb 15 from 10am to 1pm.
SAPP Treasurer General Datuk Wong Yit Ming, Supreme Councillor cum Api-Api
Central Liaison Committee (CLC) Chairman Datuk David Chong as well as SAPP
Api-Api CLC Committee Members, Youth and Wanita accompanied Yong making
the rounds, yesterday.
 Kota
Kinabalu, Feb 4, 2010: The two SAPP members of the State Legislative Assembly will move a motion
under Standing Order 31 of the Assembly to ask the BN State Government to
publish a white paper on the SAS fiasco so that the whole truth will be made
known in the interests of the public and SAS investors.
This motion is necessary because of the arrogance of the PBS members of
the BN administration who have repeatedly attacked SAPP, especially its
President, Datuk Yong Teck Lee, on the SAS issue. These PBS leaders have
over the years made defamatory and malicious statements that Datuk Yong was
responsible for the losses suffered by SAS investors. PBS has been
suggesting that wrong doings have been committed in SAS's dealing. Its
supreme councilor Chin Tek Ming had even tried to mislead the public that Datuk Yong was the Chairman of SAS.
SAPP has been consistent all along that Datuk Yong and SAPP other leaders
have nothing to hide and nothing to fear on the SAS issue. If any wrong
doing has been committed by Datuk Yong or its two ex-members who were
ministers at the time, Datuk Raymond Tan Shu Kiah and Datuk Tham Nyip Shen,
then they should be exposed and punished. Any wrong doing of political
leaders should not be used as bargaining chips to make them obey BN and UMNO.
Any attempt to do so by the authorities amounts to political
corruption...more
 KOTA KINABALU, 3 Feb 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) leaders led by
President Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee visited few markets around the city
distributing Chinese New Year greeting cards to hawkers, retailers and
members of the public.
The former Chief Minister and his entourage met and greeted hawkers at the
Lido Open Market, Foh Sang Open Market and the Kota Kinabalu Central
Market from six morning until afternoon, yesterday.
He was accompanied by wife Datin Seri Stella Yong, Likas Assemblyman cum
SAPP Deputy President Datuk Liew Teck Chan and wife Datin Chu Yun Moi,
Luyang Assemblywoman cum Wanita Chief Melanie Chia, Information Chief
Chong Pit Fah, Supreme Councillors Datuk David Chong, Siaw Shui Lan and
Wong Kee Yu.
They also distributed cards inviting members of the public to attend the
SAPP Chinese New Year 2010 Open House (SAPP Xin Chun 2010) to be held at
the Kian Kok Middle School on Feb 15 from 10am to 1pm...more
 Papar, Feb
3, 2010: A warm response from the Papar folks greeted Sabah
Progressive Party (SAPP) Party president and entourage when they made
their Chinese New Year visit to the town.
This is the first time that SAPP president Datuk Yong Teck Lee, together
with supreme councillors and the Papar CLC committee and members (around
30) organized such a visit in conjunction with the forthcoming Chinese New
Year festive season .
Papar folks were pleasantly surprised when the SAPP Chinese New Year
wishers also comprised of other local bumiputras who joined the visit
greeting them a ¡°Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year¡±... an example
reflecting the party¡¯s concept of a non-racial party.
Among the supreme councilors were Youth Chief Edward Dagul, Assistant
Secretary General Foo Fook Ming, Supreme Councillor Jaafar Ismail and Siaw
Shui Lan. Edward Dagul is also the CLC chairman for SAPP Pantai Manis and
Kawang while Jaafar Ismail is the SAPP Bongawan CLC chairman...more
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Kota Kinabalu, Jan 31, 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) during
their yearly Chinese New Year visiting at Gaya Street, Kota Kinabalu
led by party president Datuk Yong Teck Lee...more
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 PUTATAN, 31 Jan 2010: Big projects around Putatan Parliament areas costing
more than RM500 millions have been delayed for many years, said Sabah
Progressive Party (SAPP).
SAPP Secretary General Datuk Richard Yong said the most visible one is the
railway project costing more than RM300 millions, which experienced delays
since 2005.
He said the contractor had been given an extension but it was lapsed in
October 2009 and the government gave them another one-year new extension.
"The section of the railway from Lok Kawi to Tanjung Aru station with
multiple crossings is actually potential problems to traffic havoc and
endangering lives of the people as well as motorists," he said.
He said the expansion of the Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA)
and the extension of the runway from 3 km to 3.8 km as well as
drainage system costing RM200 millions also delayed.
He said the original completion date of the KKIA was April 20 last year
and then extended to December 2009...more
 KOTA KINABALU, Jan
30, 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) is holding its
Chinese New Year 2010 Open House at the Kian Kok Middle School on 15
February.
SAPP Deputy President cum Organising Chairman Datuk Liew Teck Chan said
the open house is to be held at the school hall between 10am and 1pm on
the second day of the Lunar Chinese New Year.
Liew who is also Likas Assemblyman said SAPP President Datuk Seri Yong
Teck Lee and the Supreme Council members would attend to greet members of
the public at the open house.
He said the Chinese New Year Open House is one of many SAPP efforts
to preserve the rich cultures of the Chinese community here...more
 KOTA BHARU, Jan 29 ¡ª Umno veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has insisted
that Kelantan is entitled to a five per cent royalty for oil extracted off
its waters, saying it was time to "re-examine the relationship between the
states and the federal government".
The Gua Musang MP told a packed Stadium Sultan Mohamed IV last night that
national oil firm Petronas was bound by law to give the money to states
where oil is found, adding Kelantan was not interested in compassionate
payments.
"Kelantan may be poor. But we are not beggars. We demand what is
rightfully ours," the Kelantan prince said to cheers and cries of "Allahu
Akbar (God is great)" at the last night's gathering organised by the state
government over the oil royalty issue.
The
PAS government had demanded the oil royalty payment from Petronas last
year, after the Statistics Department revealed that Kelantan, together
with Sabah and Terengganu, had contributed 62.5 per cent of the oil
extracted in Malaysia
The Barisan Nasional-ruled federal government has insisted oil from the
joint development area with Thailand was not from part of Kelantan's
waters and has only offered RM20 million as "compassionate payment".
 KOTA KINABALU, January 28, 2010: The 'failure' of the schools from Sabah and
Sarawak to make it to the list of the country's top 20 schools is not only
questionable, demoralizing and an insult to the teachers and students of the
two states, but also a solid proof of the Federal government's neglecting of
the various types of schools in the two states, said Datuk Wong Yit Ming,
Sabah Progressive Party's (SAPP) Education Bureau Chief.
He pointed this out while commenting on the recent announcement made by the
Deputy Prime Minister cum Education Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin on
the said list of top 20 schools in the country, which was completely void of
schools from the two states.
"It's a known fact that till today Sabah is still facing acute shortage of
teachers mainly due to insufficient allocations from the Education Ministry.
Many schools in the rural areas of Sabah are still lack of such basic
amenities like power and water supply hence, making a mockery of the
constant proclamations of teaching Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) in the schools," noted Wong in a statement issued here today...more
 KOTA BELUD, 28 Jan 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Kadamaian urged
the Government to rethink the construction of the proposed dam at Kg.
Tambatuon near the Kadamaian River .
SAPP Supreme Councillor also cum Kadamaian CLC Chairperson, Agnes alias
Moifun Liewpin, called on the Government not to carry the proposed
development.
It is also known that villagers at Kadamaian State constituency
particularly at Kg. Tambatuon are up against the construction of the dam
fearing the project could put their lives in danger.
It is learnt that the village chiefs have sent letters to the relevant
authorities including the police and the project consultant expressing
their disapproval and the possibility of villagers resorting to action
against the proposed project.
Some 193 villagers at Kampung Tambatuon where the dam is to be sited had
signed a letter urging the government to scrap the project...more
 Tenom,
Jan 28, 2020: SAPP Melalap and Kemabong have urged the Water Department to act on
complaints by the people here about the shortage and poor quality of water
supply over the past several months.
"Everyone in the district is affected by these problems which have caused
chronic diseases to some. It is time for the Government to take measures
to resolve the problems," said SAPP Deputy President, Jimmy Jawatah.
Jimmy, who is also the Chairman of the party's CLC for Melalap and
Kemabong, said this to Daily Express while presenting a memorandum from
the people to the District Officer regarding the problem, here, Wednesday.
The memorandum demanded the District Officer, who is also the chairman of
the district's development and action committee, bring up the matter to
the Government...more
 Kota Kinabalu, Jan 27, 2010: Many of the crimes in the residential areas in the city
occurred because of negligence on the part of house owners, said City
Police Chief ACP Ahmad Sofi Zakaria.
"I conducted a midnight patrol at a housing estate in Manggatal recently
and found at least five houses where the main gate and doors were left
open," he said.
He was speaking to a group led by Likas assemblyman Datuk Liew Teck Chan
who had come to see him yesterday.
Among others, they spoke on the frequent theft of scrap iron, burglaries,
drug abuse and traffic congestion along the Tuaran Road .
Ahmad sofi told them that police would launch "High Profile Policing" in
areas such as Luyang, Dah Yeh Villa and Likas to better prevent crime.
"I hope the communities will continue to provide valuable information to
the police," he said...more
 TAWAU, January 27, 2010: PBS leaders should have the real courage to stand
up for the Sabah Amanah Saham (SAS) investors, and to push for a thorough
probe into its fiasco, said Yong Chong Kim, a Supreme Council member of Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP).
He stressed that this is the appropriate thing for them to do if they are
really passionate about the issue and concerned for the SAS investors, as
what was reflected in their recent statements highlighting the issue, and
conveniently linking it to SAPP President, Datuk Yong Teck Lee, portraying
him as the main culprit behind the issue.
He said PBS leaders like its deputy president, Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai, its
Vice President Datuk Herbert Timbon Lagadan, its Information Chief, Datuk
Johnny Mositun and its People Development Leader (PKR) Kapitan Chin Teck
Ming who had been harping on the said issue of late, must not conveniently
keep quiet now just simply because Chief Minister of Sabah, Datuk Seri
Musa Hj Aman recently dismissed the issue as petty...more
 KOTA
KINABALU, January 22, 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) is not seeking
to be in the government just for the sake of wanting to be in the
government, but more importantly, to achieve its mission of fighting for a
better future for the State and its people, said its President, Datuk Yong
Teck Lee.
"SAPP was in the government before but on our own free choice we decided
not to be part of the BN coalition on September 17, 2008 in order to
achieve our 8-point struggles for a better future for Sabah and its
people. We are not in the hurry to get back in just so that it was the
status quo again.
"This is the fundamental difference in the mindset of our party leaders
and members from that of the other opposition parties, and this has to be
made absolutely clear," he stressed...more
Kota Kinabalu, Jan 22, 2010: Enforcement agencies in Sabah are worried
that the shortage of manpower will seriously undermine efforts to reduce
crime, one of the nation's six NKRAs, in the State.
State Criminal Investigation Department Chief, SAC II Zainal Abidin Kasim,
said agencies like the police were not only shortchanged in that
department in Sabah but also lack the equipment to investigate cases in
locations with less accommodating landscapes in the State.
Explaining his views during the Question and Answer session during the
Government Transformation Programme (GTP) Open Day at Magellan Sutera
here, Thursday, he pointed out the targets of the Crime Lab initiatives
under the Performance Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu) were not
impossible but that the obstacles in Sabah were different to that of the
peninsula...more
 KOTA KINABALU, 21 Jan 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) is going all
out to woo the 34 per cent registered voters statewide who did not cast
ballot during the 12th general election in 2008.
SAPP Wanita Chief Melanie Chia said the number is huge and could decide
the outcome of the coming 13th general election here.
"Majority of them are between 21 and 35 years old. They could bring
victory to us in the coming election," she said at the ' Blue Ocean '
talks, which was held at a local hotel, here, yesterday.
Present at the talks were SAPP President Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee, Deputy
President cum Likas Assemblyman Datuk Liew Teck Chan, Vice President cum
Tawau Member of Parliament Datuk Dr. Chua Soon Bui, Youth Chief Edward
Dagul, Information Chief Chong Pit Fah and other party leaders.
The 2008 general election saw only 66 per cent of the total registered
voters in Sabah cast ballots.
The Barisan Nasional (BN) got 42 per cent while 24 per cent votes went to
the opposition...more
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KOTA KINABALU, 18 Jan 2010: The plight of young Sabahans in the Peninsula
Malaysia under the noses of present Sabah Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders in
Kuala Lumpur is a sad phenomeno...more
 KOTA KINABALU, Jan 18, 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) has urged the federal and
the state governments to provide decent housing for the hardcore poor in
the state.
Its Wanita chief, Melanie Chia, said after almost five decades of
independence and despite being endowed with abundance of natural
resources, the governments had failed to provide a decent home for
hardcore poor like Rohead Nik Dominic who instead received overwhelming
sympathy and unconditional help from foreign ambassadors in the country.
"How would you feel if it takes foreign diplomats to help repair
dilapidated homes of the rural poor in our own state? And where have all
the monies collected from the oil palm and gaming taxes gone to?" she
asked in a statement issued here yesterday.
Rohead from Kampung Morion, Kota Marudu, is suffering from Thalassemia.
The boy recently made headlines in local and national newspapers when the
deplorable living condition of his family was highlighted following a
visit by Croatian Ambassador Zeljko Bosnjak to his dilapidated home.
During the visit, Bosnjak was visibly moved to tears after seeing the
condition of Rohead's wooden home, which has zinc sheets riddled with
holes for the roof and rusty zinc sheet for walls...more
 Tawau, Jan 18, 2010:
Mr. Hong Kim Sime, Mr. Rosman bin Amin and some small holders from
Kalumpang A expressed their thanks to Datuk Chua Soon Bui, Member of
Parliament for Tawau, for helping to
co-ordinate with Mr. Munandar Tahir, Assistant Collector of Land revenue
for Tawau, to expedite the approval and permission to build the road
reserve at Section 1 (right) next to Sime Darby plantation. Mr. Hong said
as most of the 30 small holders have developed their land along the
proposed 3-km road, it is high time that the road is constructed
rather than the small holders passing through other estates...more
By Amde Sidik
 Kota
Kinabalu, Jan 17, 2010:
Amde Sidik, a part-time university law lecturer and local author has this
to say on the recent "Allah" controversy... "I hate to be included in the race just because I'm a Muslim it doesn't
mean I agree with it.
Who is my wakil to speak on my behalf? I can't
remember much nor have I heard in the past if any of the Peninsula's (Semenanjung
or Malaya) based ethnic groups ever used word "Allah" when referring to
God. Thus no great surprise when some Muslims from this part of the
country worked up when they heard non-Muslims from Malaysia Borneo saying
it.
For the first time? After 50-odd years? They didn't realise after all
that Christians or non-Christians a like (besides Muslims) from Malaysia
Borneo refer their God as Allah too.
The hooha-hooha about the word Allah started in Peninsular where the
people there never used it, while the irony Malaysians in Borneo used it
never even bother to care who owns it-who are most perturbed? Now the
battle ground end up in Kuala Lumpur, plain funny!..more
 Tawau,
Jan 14, 2010: Member of Parliament for Tawau Datuk Chua Soon Bui,
hopes the public can
make full use of the service provided by the 1Malaysia clinic which was
opened on the 7/1/2010 at Bandar Sri Indah at mile 10, Jalan Apas.
Chua, who is also the Vice President of
Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) said that when the 50 new 1Malaysia clinics were proposed under the 2010 budget in October, 2009 in
the parliament, she made a request for two "1Malaysia Clinics" to be introduced in Tawau,
one at Jalan Apas and another at Sin On.
"The clinic in Jalan Apas
can cater for the needs of the rural areas in Balung and Apas. The clinic at
Sin On can cater for the needs of the dense population the
area. She was glad that at least one has started in Tawau, which is one
of the 4 in Sabah among the 50 newly launched 1Malaysia clinics in
Malaysia...more
KOTA KINABALU, 13 Jan 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) said Minister
of Resource Development and Information Technology Datuk Dr.Yee Moh Chai's
statement on Saham Amanah Sabah (SAS) issue "that there was no need to
repeat what was said because it is already known to all in the State" is
irresponsible.
SAPP Treasurer General Datuk Wong Yit Ming further asked if indeed the SAS
issue is well known to all then why is it that his PBS colleagues like
Information Chief Datuk Johnny Mositun, Chin Tet Min and Vice President
Herbert Timbon Lagadan don't know about the issue.
"What is wrong in telling people the truth? What is there to hide? Is this
really a petty issue? Yee as a Minister has obligation to initiate the
White Paper on SAS issue which he used to champion," he said in a
statement, here, today...more
 KOTA KINABALU, 12 Jan 2009: Assistant Minister of Community Development
and Consumer Affairs Datuk Herbert Timbon Lagadan's excuse for not knowing
Sabah Electric Board (SEB) was given to the Federal administration during
Berjaya time is because he was not in politics then, does not hold water.
As such, Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) called on Herbert to stop
insulting the intelligence of the people who easily remember (that SEB was
federalized in 1983).
"Such ignorance is a disgrace to his post of an assistant minister. You
don't have to be a politician to know what happened to SEB," said SAPP
Information Chief Chong Pit Fah in a statement, here, today.
Pit Fah said none of the current Assemblymen was involved in politics at
the time but surely they know when SEB was federalized.
"Only Herbert who happened to be the Kadamaian Assemblyman and PBS
Vice President does not know," he said...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Jan 9, 2009: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president
Datuk Yong Teck Lee, today said the culprits who fire-bombed the three Churches must be brought to justice
as soon as possible.
"Justice done will repair, even if to a limited
extent, the deep fractures inflicted on Malaysian society by such cowardly
actions. Ordinary people who are not deeply involved in religious matters
have suddenly become agitated by these incidents. This is a dangerous
polarization that is spreading to a wider section of our society.
"The people expect that the Prime Minster's assurances that those
responsible will be brought to justice will bear results without any
delay. The police force should have by now the prime suspects with the
motives to commit such fire-bombings.
"Are the culprits part of a wider conspiracy? Are they pockets of "lost
command" who no longer take orders from their leaders? Or are they mere
opportunists who want to create chaos in Malaysia to fulfill their hidden
agenda? The timing and modus operandi of the three fire-bombing
incidents suggest that there is some similarity in the thoughts of
the culprits...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Jan 8, 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP)
Secretary-General Datuk Richard Yong We Kong, questioned why cabinet
minister Datuk Dr. Yee Moh Chai, assistant minister Datuk Herbert Timbon Lagadan, deputy speaker Datuk Johnny Mositun
and Kapitan cum PKR Chin Tek Ming all harped on the SAS issue on and off
for years while Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman called the SAS
fiasco a petty issue and not to waste time on it in the newspapers
today.
"Then why did his cabinet minister Datuk Dr. Yee Moh Chai, Does this mean that the PBS leaders have been wasting time on
this "petty issue"? In the PBS hierarchy, Yee is no less than a Deputy
President, Herbert a Vice President, Johnny Mositun the Publicity Chief
and Chin is a supreme councilor.
"On June 25, 2007, Chin Tek Ming even alleged that Datuk Yong Teck Lee,
SAPP President) was the Chairman of SAS! This blatant lie led to the
police report of June 26, 2007. He again made defamatory remarks in
2008 and April 28, 2009...more
 Tawau, Jan 7, 2010: Datuk Chua Soon Bui, MP of Tawau and vice president of
SAPP responded to the appeal by 98 small holders at Bukit Andrassy, Sg.
Balung, and urged the authority especially the Forestry Department to
reconsider its further actions based on this special individual case.
"Although nobody is above the law, the background history of this
case warrants a sincere review by both parties. She sympathized with the
98 small holders, most of them from the KDM communities who have been
farming on the land since the logging activities terminated in the
70s. She also regretted to hear that no reply was received despite
numerous appeals to the government. The small holders felt that they
were inhumanly treated when their 60 homes were forcefully burned
down in 2006 despite their repeated appeals with their valid genuine
history, the authority's actions were regrettably uncalled for...more
 Kota Kinabalu, Jan 6,
2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president, Datuk Yong Teck Lee
today said the Sabah Electricity Board (SEB) was handed over by then
Berjaya Government to the Federal Government in the 1980's. Everbody knows except
Herbert Timbon Lagadan.
"There was little public objection to this federalization of SEB because
SEB at the time had failed in its duty to provide reliable electricity
supply. The reasoning at the time was that that the Federal Government had
the necessary funds and management expertise to resolve the electricity
problem. SEB was put directly under the Federal Ministry of Energy as a
100% federal agency. As we know, SEB failed.
"In 1998, the State Government got back some shares in SESB when it was
corporatised as a private Limited Company with the expectation that Tenaga
Nasional Berhad(TNB) will do better than the Ministry of Energy. TNB makes
huge profits each year. TNB has management and technical expertise. But
SESB, as part of TNB, still failed...more
Kota Kinabalu, Jan 6, 2010 : Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president,
Datuk Yong Teck Lee, in referring to the news statement today by PBS Vice
President cum Community Development and Consumer Affairs Assistant
Minister, Datuk Herbert Timbon Lagadan, negatively associating former
leader of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Prof. Nur Misuari with
the illegal immigrants issue, and saying that SAPP's stand on the illegals
issue is a "joke". His racial stereotype undertone is distasteful...more
 KOTA KINABALU, January 6, 2010: Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) Information
Chief Datuk Johnny Mositun and his party leadership should demand for the
Barisan Nasional (BN) State government to come up with a 'white paper' on
the Saham Amanah Sabah (SAS) fiasco, if they are really concerned about
the issue, said Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Treasurer, Datuk Wong Yit
Ming.
Wong said this would be the appropriate thing that Mositun and his party
leaders should do instead of repeatedly issuing vague, baseless and
misleading statements concerning the issue, which does not help the SAS
investors at all, but at the same time unfairly implicating SAPP
President, Datuk Yong Teck Lee on the SAS fiasco.
"The people of Sabah have the right to know what's the actual cause of the SAS fiasco and since the PBS are now in the Barisan Nasional, it should
hence demand for the State government to come up with a 'white paper' on
the issue, so as to inform the people of the truth. Any person, including
the BN leaders, if they are involved in it and found guilty, should be
charged according to the law. The BN State government must not attempt to
protect any wrongdoer including their own kind," stressed Wong in a
statement issued here today...more
 KOTA KINABALU, 6 Jan 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) said Parti
Bersatu Sabah (PBS) Information Chief Datuk Johnny Mositun is a man full
of self contradictions and is good at twisting facts and making up
stories, in particular, over the Saham Amanah Sabah (SAS) debacle.
SAPP Youth Chief Edward Dagul said Mositun is a man of such after he had
explained that he mentioned Datuk Yong Teck Lee's name on the SAS only in
response to the police report lodged against him.
Dagul said that in fact his police report was lodged on 2 January after
Mositun's statement, which appeared in local dailies on 1 January.
"So he started the whole thing by stating that the SAS investors 'had
bought the shares when SAPP President Datuk Yong Teck Lee was the Chief
Minister'," Dagul said in a statement, here, today.
He said the SAPP had on many occasions explained the SAS issue and even
called on the government to produce White Paper on the matter but the
government is reluctant to do so...more
Kota Kinabalu, Jan 4,
2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president, Datuk Yong Teck Lee, stated that the BN government should go ahead and conduct a full
probe into the SAS's activities from its time of launching on 23 June 1994
to the present day...more
 KOTA
KINABALU, 4 Jan 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) seeks further
clarification from the Chief Minister on his supposed "away on leave"
stint.
SAPP as well as the rakyat of Sabah were left in the dark on the actual
whereabouts of the CM during the Christmas period.
SAPP Information Chief, Chong Pit Fah, said his counterpart from PBS,
Datuk Johnny Mositun, who is also the Deputy Speaker of the Sabah Assembly
had revealed that Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman had gone on leave
during the Christmas.
He quipped that if it were not for the revelation from Datuk Johnny
Mositun that the Chief Minister was away on leave, as reported in the
local dailies 4th January 2010, on the 25th December and only back in time
for Mositun's open House on 27th December 2009, everybody would be none
the wiser...more
 PENAMPANG,
4 Jan 2010: Sabah should take back Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd. (SESB)
after the utility company failed to improve power supply all over the
State following its privatisation exercise.
Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) President Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee said
energy supply management better be managed by Sabah as the State have the
abilities to do so.
He said the Sabah Electric Board (SEB) had been handed over to Kuala
Lumpur by the Berjaya Government due to insufficient funds but no
improvement was seen.
He said following that, the SEB was privatised in 1998 and renamed SESB
when taken over by the Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB)...more
PENAMPANG,
Jan 4, 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) had
been busy in the past year indentifying the state constituencies which it
feels it can win in the next election in order for it a obtain the
majority needed to form the State Government...
more
 KOTA KINABALU,
3 Jan 2010: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) has called on
the police to investigate whether Deputy State Speaker cum Parti Bersatu
Sabah (PBS) Information Chief, Datuk Johnny Mositun, is concealing crimes
committed involving Saham Amanah Sabah (SAS).
SAPP made the call after its Youth Chief, Edward Dagul, accompanied by
some party's youth members lodged a police report at the Kota Kinabalu
police head quarters at Karamunsing, here, today.
Dagul said the report aimed at calling the police to investigate the news
report appeared on Jan. 1, 2010 in the Daily Express quoting Mositun that
"SAS investors had bought the shares when Datuk Yong Teck Lee was Chief
Minister".
"This was yet another press statement by PBS leaders falsely accusing and
implying that SAPP President, Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee, said to be
involved in SAS investment decisions.
"The last time SAPP lodged a police report so that investigations can be
carried out was on 26 June 2007 when Yong lodged the report himself so
that statements could be taken from two PBS leaders," ...more
 TENOM,
Jan 2, 2010: Timbalan Pengerusi Majlis Pastoral Paroki Gereja Roman Katholik
disini Jimmy Jawatah 45, (gambar) mengalu alukan keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi
Kuala Lumpur yang memutuskan bahawa larangan Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN)
terhadap penggunaan perkataan 'Allah' adalah tidak sah.
Kata beliau lagi, berikutan keputusan itu Mahkamah turut membenarkan
permohonan Gereja Katholik untuk mengetepikan larangan tersebut.
"Saya percaya bahawa semua umat Kristian dinegara ini menyambut baik
keputusan tersebut yang melambangkan bahawa keadilan dan amalan demokrasi
dinegara ini masih terus subur sepertimana yang termaktub didalam
Perlembagaan Persekutuan," kata beliau dalam satu kenyataan disini pada
Jumaat.
Jimmy yang juga Naib Presiden Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) berkata demikian
sebagai maklum balas beliau terhadap keputusan Mahkamah yang membenarkan
perkataan 'Allah' dibenarkan sebagai terjemahan perkataan 'Tuhan' didalam
majalah 'The Herald' edisi bahasa Melayu.
Ketika membenarkan percetakkan majalah 'The Herald' menggunakan perkataan
'Allah', Hakim Lau Bee Lan menjelaskan bahawa arahan Menteri Dalam Negeri
sebelum ini disifatkannya sebagai 'tidak sah dan batal' sambil menegaskan
bahawa perkataan tersebut bukan hanya eksklusif untuk Islam sahaja...Berita
selanjutnya
By Sim Kwang Yang
 The
running joke going the round in Sabah and Sarawak for decades has been
that you hear about these two East Malaysian states only during the
daily weather report following prime time news on TV.
Overnight within our new political landscape, these two large and
largely forgotten, marginalised and neglected states have been the
focus of media attention, thanks to the rumours of mass defection by
Sabahan and Sarawakian MPs to the Pakatan Rakyat coalition.
On my recent trip back to my home town of Kuching, I was told that a
senior BN Dayak politician has been informed by Anwar Ibrahim that if
the federal government should change hand, the chief ministers of
Sarawak and Sabah would be a Dayak and a Kadazan respectively. For
those who know the politics and the demographic of these two unique
states well, such an offer would tip the political scale there in a
radical manner.
Then, there is the open offer by Anwar that if the Pakatan Rakyat
should take power at the federal level, the oil and gas royalty for
Sabah and Sarawak would be raised from 5% to 20%, one way or
another. This is a sensitive issue that has hurt the feelings of
Sabahans and Sarawakians since the early years of their independence
through the formation of Malaysia...more
Form royal probe on Dr M's squandering
By Dr. Mahathir Mohamad...
 1. I welcome Lim Kit Siang's proposal for Najib to set up a royal
commission on whether I burned RM100 billion on grandiose projects and
corruption during my 22-year reign.
2.Such a commission should not be made up of Government nominees
but should have as members impeccable people including foreigners
and members of Transparency International.
3.The commission should not confine to one Prime Minister only but
to Tun
Abdullah Badawi's regime.
4.It should include how RM270 billion of Petronas money paid
during Abdullah's five-year term was spent; what projects were
financed by this huge fund and the cost of all these projects
5.It should include how much money was lost due to the
cancellation of the crooked bridge and the Johore Baru to Padang Besar railway...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, 21 Dec 2009: Prices of goods and services all over Sabah
would increase with the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Secretary General Datuk Richard Yong said
prices of goods and services statewide, in particular, at rural areas are
already higher and it could increase further the implementation of the GST.
The intended GST replacing the sales and services tax applies to everyone,
the wealthy and the poor. Once imposed would definitely caused inflation
and hike in prices of goods and services much similar to the effect of
hike in petrol price.
The sales and services tax only applies to the rich at urban areas while
the poor at rural areas are exempted.
Sabah being the poorest State in the whole of Malaysia, having the lowest
income per capita yet has to cope with the highest cost of living.
"The most worrying thing is prices of goods and services at rural areas,
which already costly as compared to other areas nationwide would be even
higher and causing the poor folks over there to suffer further," he said in
a statement, here, today.
He said the imbalances in terms of development, the lesser infrastructure,
poor condition of roads and bridges has caused higher transportation
costs, here...more
 The
following is the speech given by former finance minister
and Umno vice-president Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah at the
one-day Young Corporate Malaysians Summit this morning.
In a speech I made in April this year, I spoke of where
we stand in our developmental path and what I felt we
must do to move forward...more
 KOTA KINABALU, 16 Dec 2009: The privatisation of Sabah Electricity Board (SEB)
had failed to improve power supply all over Sabah and worst is when the
private company, Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd. (SESB) is pressing hard for
the establishment of a harmful coal-fired power plant.
More misery to Sabahans when there were more blackouts these days as
compared to the days before Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) took over Sabah
Electricity Board (SEB) and named the subsidiary company SESB more than a
decade ago.
Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Secretary General Datuk Richard Yong said
the privatisation exercise was done in 1998 and the people of the State
was assured of a better power supply then...more
 Kota Kinabalu, Dec 15, 2009: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) said the Prime
Minister's announcement that the Malaysian Government is willing to offer
its commitment to cut its carbon dioxide emission at the Copenhagen
climate change summit "is laughable".
Its Deputy President Datuk Eric Majimbun said this is because Datuk Seri
Najib Tun Razak not long ago also announced that a coal-fired power plant
would be built in Lahad Datu.
"It is funny because the country is offering to credibly cut its carbon
dioxide emissions while at the same time the Government will build the
country's seventh coal-fired power plant which will be in Sabah," he said.
Malaysia presently has six coal-fired power plants, four in the
peninsula and two in Sarawak..more
 Kuala
Lumpur, Dec 15, 2009:
Replying on issues raised by Datuk Chua Soon Bui (MP Tawau) in the
ministry committee debate, the Minister of Energy, Green technology and
Water, Datuk Seri Chin Fah Kui said that for early power plants based on
diesel and early MFO, failure to supply electricity as directed by the
SESB only affects the availability factor which will result in penalties
in the form of reduced payments if the rate of capacity availability falls
below the agreed level. For matters relating to the "Failed Despatch
Instruction" in Energy Purchase Agreement for the new power plants,
additional clause has been included on the supply of electricity as
directed. The IPP will also receive a reduced payment for the month
concerned. He was replying to the issue of penalties imposed on IPPs in
Sabah that fail to supply electricity to the system, as raised by YB Datuk
Chua Soon Bui (MP Tawau)...more
Kota Kinabalu,
Dec 15, 2009: Tuaran Member of Parliament Datuk Wilfred Bumburing has
requested from an explanation from the Health Ministry as to why Phase 2
of the Tuaran District Hospital has yet to commence...more
 LAHAD DATU, 14 Dec 2009: Rampant loss of land and rising costs of living
are serious issues affecting local people that the government has failed
to handle, said Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) President Datuk Seri Yong
Teck Lee.
"This is the analysis of the 300 plus local leaders all over Sabah during
SAPP recently concluded Level 5 leadership course held from November 28 to
December 14 in various parts of Sabah with the theme 'Fight To Win'.
"As a result, many people live in constant fear of being unable to sustain
their way of life in the coming months or years," Yong said in a
statement, here, today...more
 Item taken from a
comment, Dec 14, 2009:
I suppose SAPP did read a Chinese newspaper articles about a few days ago
regarding the lack of developments on this Island.
As a local boy here, I must admit that there are a lot of basic facilities
which are still under developed and being an island with the status of
International Business and Financial Centre (IBFC), these incidents should
not happen since the beginning.
Sadly speaking, the road condition in Labuan island is worse than the road
all the way from Menumbok to Kota Kinabalu. In terms of water supply, water
shortage is no longer a fresh news but the quality of water in Labuan is a
disaster. 'Milo' is what you get if you are not capable to buy water filter
at home...more
 Papar, 2009 Dec 12: A
63-year-old paralysed woman request to the Welfare Department for a
wheelchair went unheeded had her wish fulfilled five years later by the
opposition Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP).
Sepanggar MP, Datuk Eric Majimbun, presented the wheelchair to Lonjuing
Lodsung at Kampung Labak, Kinarut, here, recently. Also present were SAPP
Youth Chief, Edward Dagul, and SAPP Chairperson of Kampung Labak branch,
Thomas Fredonan (pic).
"We do not want to politicise
this matter as the party's responsibility is also to help those who in
need. We knew of her predicament through party members and acted on it
immediately," Dagul said.
Lonjuing's husband, Elis Sidim, expressed happiness with the aid given
to his wife as it could now help her to move around...more
 KOTA KINABALU, December 10, 2009: The Federal government must not even
think of raising the power tariff in Sabah until and unless it has
improved the depressing power supply situation in the State, said Sabah
Progressive Party (SAPP) Women Chief, Melanie Chia.
She stressed this while responding to the remark made by Energy, Green
Technology and Water Minister Datuk Seri Peter Chin Fah Kui in Parliament
on Tuesday, that there's no guarantee that the power tariff in Sabah would
not be raised in the near future, citing rising production cost.
He further noted that Sabah's power tariff has remained unchanged for the
past 23 years and is currently the cheapest in the country, even cheaper
than Sarawak .
He nonetheless acknowledged that power outage or the System Average
Interruption Duration Index (Saidi) in Sabah was higher than in the
peninsular and Sarawak . He thus said his ministry's main Key Performance
Indicators (KPI) was to reduce Sabah 's high Saidi...more
 Kota Kinabalu, Dec 7,
2009: Member of Parliament for Sepanggar Datuk Eric Majimbun had
appealed to the federal government to reconsider its plan to revoke
the import of used cars and used spare parts in the country
effective 2011.
He said the decision
will affect not less than 100 used car traders in Sabah. He also
said that most of the cars in the State are still in good condition
even though have reached 15 years old.
Debating the Ministry of
International Trade and Industry 2010 expenditure budget at
committee level in Parliament in Kuala Lumpur recently, he said it
not feasible for th government to go ahead with the decision
because it will cause dealers to fold up their business...more
 Kota Kinabalu, Dec 7, 2009: SABAH Progressive Party (SAPP) Education
Bureau Chief Datuk Wong Yit Ming has slammed the Ministry of Education's
latest decision to allow SPM candidates to take 12 subjects instead of 10
only, but refused to accept the vernacular subjects i.e. the Chinese and
Tamil languages, for Government scholarship (under the Public Service
Department) or university entrance qualification.
"This is a grossly unfair and an insult to the Chinese and Indian
communities in the country. The Education Minister owes the general public
especially the Chinese and the Indian communities on the rationale for not
allowing the Chinese and Tamil languages subjects to be qualified for
Government scholarship and to qualify for public university entrance,"
said Wong in a statement issued here today.
He also described the Ministry's backing down from its earlier decision to
limit the SPM subjects to 10 subjects only and to increase it to 12
subjects now as a mere "gimmick", since it still does not give proper
recognition to vernacular subjects.
 Kota
Kinabalu, Dec 6, 2009: The Federal government should first
rectify the many imbalances that are currently still plaguing Sabah
including higher prices of goods as compared to Peninsular Malaysia,
before even thinking of introducing the goods and services tax (GST).
This was coupled with the fact that Sabah is currently the poorest state
in the country still, with lowest per-capita income.
Expressing this was SAPP Secretary-general, Datuk Richard Yong We Kong
while commenting on the Federal government's plan to introduce the GST,
which bill will be tabled in Parliament on Dec 15...more
 KOTA KINABALU, Dec
5, 2009: Unfair practices by Kuala Lumpur has made Sabah from the richest
to the poorest state in the country, said Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP).
SAPP Youth Chief Edward Dagul said Sabah also has the most
number of poor people with one out of every four individuals. Sabah has to
pay more due to various created imbalances in the country's system by the BN government.
"Sabah's poverty rate stands at
23 per cent while the national rate is 5.7 per cent while Sarawak's poverty rate stands at 7.5 per cent....more
 KOTA KINABALU, Dec 4, 2009: The people of Sabah lived in harmony without
racial or religious conflicts with no communist threat and very little
crime before Malaysia was formed. Sabah then was governed by London with a
locally appointed Legislative Council.
"And Sabah was the richest State in the country when Sabah formed Malaysia
with Sarawak , Singapore and Malaya in 1963, after Brunei opted out.
However, after the formation of Malaysia , Kuala Lumpur began to control
Sabah's politics," said Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) President Datuk
Seri Panglima Yong Teck Lee.
"Apart from being the poorest State, Sabah is now riddled with imported
racism and religious suspicions," he said in a statement responding to the
Deputy Prime Minister who had said Datuk Yong was "outdated" in comparing
Kuala Lumpur with the British colonialists...more
Hazlan Zakaria, Dec 2, 09, 5:22pm
'We were shown a picture of Anwar Ibrahim with an American. The
instructor told us that he is a traitor to the country as he had a
good relationship with the Americans.'
This was among the issues raised during a nation building programme
carried out by Biro Tatanegara or the National Civics Bureau,
recalled fourth year economics student Fakhrul Zaki Fazial...more
 Dec 1, 2009: Reference 06300 Control and Enforcement ..."I would like to
ask the Menteri on Terms of Reference (TOR) regarding the EIA (Environment
Impact Assessment) and SIA ( Social Impact Assessment) to be conducted by
the Department of Environment (DOE) in Sabah on the viability of the coal
power plant in Kg.Sinakut at Felda , Lahad Datu. What are the major
considerations on the TOR, When is the EIA and SIA going to start? How
Long does it take to complete?
Similarly, I also wish to know on the same study carry out on the Kaiduan
Dam, when is EIA and SIA going to start and time taken for its completion.
Does the people has a chance to present their views?...more
KOTA KINABALU, Nov 29, 2009: An initial environmental report on a proposed
300mW coal fired plant on the state's east coast has drawn concern from
various Sabah groups, who say it is full of shortcomings...more
 Kota Kinabalu, Nov 28, 2009: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) believes the
Barisan Nasional (BN) will resort to gerrymandering by manipulating the
electoral boundaries in order to improve its chances in the next general
election.
Its President Datuk Yong Teck Lee said the State Government is not
going to propose for additional seats in Sabah because of the cost factor.
"Because there is no need to. What will happen is that the BN and Umno
may want to improve their chances by going for more gerrymandering.
"Play around with the boundaries like dividing the Umno seats to two or
more and lumping the non-Umno seats from many into one like they have done
in the 1990s," he said, after officiating at the SAPP KK Zone Annual
General Meeting (AGM) at the Sabah Trade Centre, Friday...more
 Kota Kinabalu, Nov 28, 2009: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) Deputy
President Datuk Eric Majimbun is amazed by sudden interest and strong
reaction of certain people when
it comes to determining an individual's bumi status and pressing for a
police probe.
"Political leaders in the present government seem trying to
divert our attention to more serious and severe problems such as the
illegal immigrants numbering hundreds of thousands whom the federal
government granted citizenship with Mykad, better treatment, getting
government facilities free of charge, living on state government land and
untouched.
"Worst of all, our rural...more
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 Nov 27,
2009: "The minister of energy, Peter Chin Fah Kui mentioned that bakun power is
need in Peninsular Malaysia. Have he ever thought that Sabah is also in need
of Bakun power from Sarawak as a viable alternative to dirty coal-powered
plant. This is the kind of double standard practised and so called
1Malaysia?"
(Quoted from his Blog) November 25, 2009: There is much
debate recently on this question and I do not think that it will stop just
because of this posting. Still as Minister of Energy, I must try to convey
to readers of this Blog how I feel about the subject matter and hopefully
provide some facts and to an extent some intelligent answers.
Let me begin from this point of view. Bakun power is needed for Peninsular
Malaysia based on the following reasons...more
Kuala Lumpur, Nov 25, 2009: Member of Parliament Datuk Chua Soon
Bui handed over 85 enquiries on the applications for citizenship to the
Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Dato' Wira Abu Seman Yusof, at the
parliament. These enquiries were received from Tawau residents during her
service centre recently.
Chua, who also Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) vice president, said
these applicants had applied many years ago but yet to receive any reply
from the authorities about the status of their applications.
According to Chua, some of them have been waiting for more than 20
years without any news from the authorities, who seem to be delaying them...more
Nov 25, 2009: The legacy
of Badawi continues......
PM Najib: Coal is Dirty, Not Environmentally Friendly
 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct
31: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak admitted today that the
government needs to revise its energy policy, calling the current one
obsolete and in need of a revamp.
PM Najib: Sabah Should Accept Dirty Coal
KOTA KINABALU, Nov 8: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said there is
need for some sacrifices to be made in order to achieve development and
something good, particularly in addressing the power woes in Sabah...more
 Kota Kinabalu, Nov 19, 2009: Likas assemblyman Datuk Liew Teck Chan urged
the government to resolve the problem of late issuance of strata titles to
flats, apartments and condominiums in the state.
He said most of them were still pending after many years of processing by
departments such as the Land and Survey, the local councils, City Hall and
the various government authorities.
"Many cases are old as 25 to 30 years old where the strata titles
are the responsibilities of the developers."
"Who else can help these helpless property buyers if not for the
various authorities within the government?" he said when debating on
the budget yesterday...more
Nov
19, 2009: Member of Parliament for Tawau Datuk Chua Soon Bui asked
the Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water on what plan of
action is to be taken by its ministry to implement a water dam
project in Tawau to resolve the acute shortage of water supply in Tawau,
which had been proposed by Tawau Water department since the 9th Malaysian
Plan (RMK 9).
Chua, who is also Sabah
Progressive Party (SAPP) vice president, further asked what are the
alternative plans to resolve the acute shortage if the said proposal
has not yet been approved, during question time at Parliament...more
 Kota Kinabalu, Nov 18, 2009: Luyang Assemblywoman Melanie Chia said Sabah
Progressive Party (SAPP) is not against the move to provide more stable
and sufficient supply of electricity to the people.
"We also want the rakyat to get continuous and sufficient electricity
(but) through other alternatives like hydro and gas," she said in her
Budget debate speech.
Unlike other assemblymen who received minimal interruptions from the other
members of the House when debating the Budget, it was not plain sailing
for the SAPP Wanita chief...more
Tawau, Nov 17, 2009: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) vice president
Datuk Dr Chua Soon Bui, today Sabah people's objections against the
building of the coal-fired power plant came from all walks of life...more
Kota Kinabalu, Nov 16, 2009: A bid for an emergency motion to enable
the House to debate a proposed 300mW coal-fired power plant at
Tungku in the east coast Lahad Datu district was rejected by Speaker
Datuk Juhar Mahiruddin...more
 Kota Kinabalu, Nov 16, 2009: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) said the State
Government proposal to construct a coal-fired power plant in the State is
not supported by the people.
In fact, SAPP Tungku chief, Datu Suaib Mutalib said the State Cabinet led
by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman had rejected the proposal to build
the plant in Silam, Lahad Datu, the site chosen by the Tenaga Nasional
Berhad (TNB) before.
The reason given by the Chief Minister for the rejection of the coal-fired
power plant proposal on April 2, 2008 was that it would be detrimental to
the health of the people and the environment.
The people in Sandakan also objected to using the same arguments when
Sungai Seguntor was chosen as the alternative site, he said...more
Kota
Kinabalu (Wed, Nov 11, 2009): Member of Parliament for Sepanggar
Datuk Eric Majimbun has described as "just a political gimmick" the setting up of a
Special Cabinet Committee announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun
Razak to address issues related to the indigenous communities in Sabah and
Sarawak.
"This is not the first time such panel was established or to be formed,"
Member of Parliament for Sepanggar Datuk Eric Majimbun (Pic) told FMT in a
telephone interview from Kuala Lumpur today.
Majimbun, who is also
SAPP deputy president, also questioned why the
Prime Minister had come up with the committee under the 1Malaysia
Concept only now, since all along he was aware of the problems and
hardship of the indigenous people in the two States...more
 2009-11-11 (Daily Express) Tawau: Compensation would be given to the
family of a pair of twin babies who died at the district hospital here
after it was found negligence on the part of the hospital had caused their
deaths.
MP Datuk Chua Soon Bui said she found out about the matter after following
up the case with Health Minister, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, adding that
she was told the case had been submitted to the Attorney General for
compensation purposes.
"It is hoped that those involved in causing the death through negligence
would be investigated or disciplinary action taken so that similar
incidents would not take place," said Chua, who is also SAPP Vice
President...more
 BEIJING (Reuters) - China is considering moving the last four coal-fired
power and heating plants out of Beijing's municipal area, replacing them
with gas-fired stations, state media reported on Monday, in an effort to
improve air quality in the capital.
"The existence of a number of
coal-fired power plants in urban Beijing does not conform with the city's
positioning as a metropolis," Zhang Guobao, head of the China's National
Energy Administration (NEA), was quoted as saying in the China Energy
News.
"While the heat supply to
Beijing residents must be ensured, coal-fired stations that need to be
relocated must be relocated, and building gas-fired plants with advanced
environmental protection technologies is a first choice."
No timeframe was mentioned for the possible move, and it was not clear
where the plants would be moved to if such a decision were approved...more
 Kota
Kinabalu,10 Nov 2009: SAPP assured people
that a petition will reach Prime Minister urging him to immediately solve
the more than one year crisis beleaguering Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH),
here.
SAPP Information Chief Chong Pit Fah said the party was prevented to
hand over the petition to Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Saturday at the
Kota Kinabalu International Airport, here, due to obstruction from the
authority.
Chong said SAPP understands the plight of the people statewide who
yearns for better health and medical care services when the main tower
block of QEH was declared unsafe since November 2008...more
Kota Kinabalu, Nov 10, 2009:
SAPP challenges the Barisan Nasional (BN) to dissolve the State Assembly to pave the way for
an election if problems pertaining illegal immigrants (PTI) here is not
solved by 2012...more
Kota
Kinabalu, Nov 9, 2009:
SAPP president, Datuk Yong Teck Lee, said
the Prime Minister cannot simply force the coal power plant at Tungku.
"How can
Prime Minister insist on Felda Tungku for coal power plant even before the
EIA study is done?
"The basis given by PM to site the controversial coal power plant at Tungku Felda is because he is Felda Minister. Thus the premature approval
to site the coal plant at Tungku is tainted with abuse of power. He
assumes that Felda managers and settlers would not dare to object just
because the land owner is a federal agency...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Nov 8, 2009: The attempt by SAPP to
hand over the petition on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak
at the Kota Kinabalu International Airport VIP
Terminal, Saturday was not entertained.
The SAPP delegation led by Secretary-General Datuk Richard Yong together
with Information Chief, Chong Pit Fah and Youth Chief, Edward Dagul was
advised by the Political Secretary to the Prime Minister, Datuk Mohamad
Fatmi Che Salleh to do it another time!
They intended to hand over the petition containing more than 4,000
signatures calling for the Federal Government to take immediate action on
the QEH problem as soon as Najib arrived here...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, 6 Nov 2009: SAPP Petagas Central
Liaison Committee (CLC) Chairman Dullie Marie said Putatan Member of
Parliament's statement that he had changed since joining SAPP was
unfounded.
Dullie said he joined SAPP the very first day it becomes an opposition and
not when the party was still with the government.
"I am here not to seek cheap publicity or glory and to champion petty
issues. In the 21st Century leaders should be more accountable regardless
of being either in opposition or in the government," he said in a
statement, here, today...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, 5 Nov 2009: SAPP would hand over
petition to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Sunday
pressing him to solve the chaotic health and medical care services
here.
Today is exactly 365 days Kota Kinabalu is without a General
Hospital. SAPP which started a signature petition on 29 August 2009
had asked the Prime Minister to "GIVE US BACK OUR GENERAL HOSPITAL
IN Kota Kinabalu".
At the close of the signature petition, a total of 4,028 signatures
were collected from all over the state. Out of this number, 1,211
were collected online and 2,817 were signed.
SAPP Wanita Chief Melanie Chia said the petition seeks Najib's good
office to hasten the reconstruction of the main tower block declared
unsafe in November 2008 and the expansion of the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital (QEH) in Kota Kinabalu...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, November 5, 2009: SAPP has again
accused the Barisan Nasional (BN) led Federal government of paying
'lip service' and neglecting the people of Sabah.
To substantiate this, SAPP Information Chief Chong Pit Fah
this time cited a few abandoned Federal government-funded projects
in the Penampang District. They included the Mogoputi Industrial
Park phase 2 earmarked for "Kawasan Industri Mara (KIM)" undertaken
by the Mara Sabah, the low-cost housing project in Kg Kibabaig and
the SMK Bahang expansion project...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Nov 4, 2009:
About 100 dealers of used vehicle parts and components in Sabah are
unhappy over the drastic and plan to ban the import of used parts and
components effective mid 2011.
They hope the Government would not implement this policy, particularly
in Sabah as many motorists depend on used parts and components which are
more affordable.
"Otherwise many people, the
dealers and motorists, would have a big problem... not only that because
there would be risks like an increase in vehicle theft because the demand
for used parts and components is very high particularly in Sabah.
"Vehicle owners are mostly earning low income and will not be able to
afford expensive brand new parts or components," said their representative
Don H.K. Chin, at a press conference...more
 NABAWAN, Nov 4, 2009:
SAPP on Tuesday
alleged that the Federal Government has neglected health needs in Sabah, apart from failing to fulfil its promise to the people on
hospital developments in the State.
Its President Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee said they have already
promised twice to build a hospital here but that until now it has
yet to be fulfilled.
According to him, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak when he
was still Deputy Prime Minister during the 2004 general elections
had promised that a hospital would be built here if the BN won.
Then in the 2008 elections, he said the BN again uttered the same
pledge...more
Why only Kluang, Bera, Shah
Alam, Alor Gajah, Tampoi in 2010 Budget?
Kota Kinabalu, Nov 3, 2009: SAPP would hang
banners to inform Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak who is
scheduled to visit Sabah on Sunday that Kuala Lumpur is not taking firm
steps to address the worsening health crisis here...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Nov 2, 2009: SAPP Supreme Councillor, Encik Dullie Marie, told the BN leaders not to make a mockery
of their own "People First" slogan by anti-people policies such as the
latest road worthiness test for vehicles over 15 years old. Even the
2-term BN MP for Putatan, Datuk Dr. Marcus Mojigoh, has expressed his
anger at the BN government.
Dullie, who is also SAPP's Petagas CLC chairman said Sabah has become a
dumping ground for second-hand cars from peninsular Malaysia and he is
sure Datuk Dr. Marcus Mojigoh is well aware of this.
"Should this policy implemented, the poor bumiputras in Sabah are the
biggest losers. I fully support this policy should not be implemented in
Sabah ...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Nov 2,
2009: SAPP Youth leader, Edward Dagul,
said he found it both distressing and unbelievable as to the UPKO
President cum MP for Penampang, Tan Sri Bernard Dompok's claim that he is
completely in the dark over the Kaiduan Dam mega project proposal.
"How is it possible that both ADUN for Moyog and MP for Penampang do not
know about a project of this proportion? It is reported that the proposed
Dam is worth RM2.8 billion.
"Are we to understand that the affected villagers knew..more
 (By Amde Sidik) Nov 2, 2009: Nearly everyday, if not every other day in a week is a new day for
SAPP, I mean, something is happening. Some call it excitement in the
making.
For the last few days, which I'm sure some of you are aware, our State's
politics yet again unfolded another drama. Two big names in Sabah's PKR
resigned from the party, Datuk Dr Jeffery Kitingan, the vice President and
Puan Christine Liew a supreme councillor and founder of Sabah PKR,
consequential of the event questions are posed to us whether it has any
bearing to SAPP. My short answer is not, but it does give us an extra work
answering queries from members of the public as well as politicians alike.
I'm pretty sure more excitement is in the making as we go along, which we
just have to be prepared for it. I wouldn't want to elaborate much,
partly, for political strategic purposes...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, October 30, 2009:
SAPP president, Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee,
questions the RM544 million bond the State Government which is a debt that must be repaid at the end of its term.
"Since the Sabah State government plans a five-year bond of RM 544 million, it means
that this RM544 million will be spent today and to be repaid in 2015,
after the next general elections. This is an unprecedented way of a
government that spends tomorrow's money today.
"The Ministry of Finance yesterday revealed that the RM544 million will be
used partly for "working capital" and "general investments"...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, 28 Oct 2009: SAPP Youth today
called on the State Cabinet to produce White Papers on both Forest
Management Unit (FMU) and the so-called Tanjung Aru Government Quarters in
order to clear all doubts.
Its Chief Edward Dagul said, a White Paper would also tell the whole truth
about both the FMU and the quarters.
He said many Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders especially the Assistant
Minister of Community Development and Consumer Affairs Datuk Herbert
Timbon Lagadan had come up with misleading statements about the FMU and
the quarters...more
Kota Kinabalu, Oct 28,
2009: The drop of RM13.7 billion in Federal revenue for 2010
compared to 2009 is a clear sign that the economic productive base of the
country has diminished, said SAPP President Datuk
Yong Teck Lee...more
Kuala Lumpur, Oct 27, 2009: Member of Parliament for Tawau, Datuk Chua
Soon Bui, questioned the federal government whether there is ulterior
motive in forcing coal power plant project which is in direct conflict
with the National Green Technology Policy (NGTP) launched by the Prime
Minister in July this year.
Chua, who is also SAPP vice president, said
that the main objective is to improve the quality life of all Malaysians
and avoid negative impact on our environment and especially the
health of the people.
The federal minister of Energy,
Green Technology and Water...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, 24 October 2009:
SAPP president, Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee said
that the government must learn from the past
experiences in Sabah and elsewhere in the world that it takes more that
just monetary "ganti rugi or ex-gratia payments to solve the problems of
people affected by development projects.
"In the case of current concern over the proposed Kaiduan Dam, even
government-appointed local leaders such as JKKK and village heads have
found it necessary to hold peaceful protests in order to highlight their
worries in the media. The recent protests show that the repeated
assurances of government ministers and wakil rakyat in the newspapers are
insufficient to make up for the failure of the government leaders to
inform and consult the village people at an early stage...more
 Oct
21, 2009: Renowned Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip
Rojanasunand made several explosive allegations at the Teoh Beng Hock
inquest this morning.
Among
others, Pornthip suggested that the political aide could have been
strangled before falling from the 14th floor of Plaza Masalam.
The colourful doctor noted that the marks on Teoh's neck indicated the
possibility of 'manual strangulation'.
Furthermore, she pointed out that Teoh's skull fracture was not typical
of an injury from a fall...more
Oct 21, 2009:
CONTRADICTING theory based on general principles and research that
eventually designates hidden intention apart from the necessity of a coal
fired power plant to boost the shortage of electricity in the east coast
of Sabah...more
Kota Kinabalu,
Oct 19, 2009: SAPP president, Datuk Seri Yong
Teck Lee, said that the September 16 national holiday is a long overdue
rectification of national consciousness of Malaysia Day...more
by Datuk Chua Soon Bui
 TAWAU, Oct 19, 2009:
SAPP president, Datuk Seri
Panglima Yong Teck Lee said he had seen the determination of members in
the party which shows the party stand is still being fully supported in
their move to fraction themselves out from the Barisan Nasional (BN)
coalition.
Yong who was in the state to officiate the party's district branches
annual meeting cited that the determination will ensure that they will
continue to remain relevant to the state in protecting the rights of Sabahans.
"We are doing our audit and to take stock on our members and the
impression I saw among those attending this function shows that the move
by the party is supported by all", he stated in the event which saw some
500 members attending on October 17...more
Kota
Kinabalu,
Oct 17, 2009: SAPP said the issue of non
transparency on the proposed Kaiduan Dam in Papar speaks volume of the
ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) continuous attitude of not consulting
affected people and local leaders in its acts.
SAPP Vice President, Edward Dagul, in a statement here today said this is
another classic example of what is being preached by BN leaders is not
what they practiced, especially so when it involves Mega projects funded
by Federal authorities.
"The Kaiduan dam issue is just another tip of the proverbial
icebergs. This is not the first time a feasibility study is alleged
to have misled, in this case there are allegedly little or no impact
on local inhabitants affected when in actual fact, there are." ...more
 TAWAU, Oct 9, 2009: Sabah Land Development Board (SLDB) action in the
Serudung Baru village scheme settlers should be made clear as the current
situation had brought anxiety among the 79 settlers there fearing the
repeat of the Tingkayu, Kunak case where planters are being forced out of
their own properties as claimed...more
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According to the State Minister for Tourism, Culture and Environment
Masidi Manjun, the federal government policies are - cast in the MIC or
Malay, Indian, Chinese mould...more
 TAWAU,
Oct 1, 2009: SAPP vice president and Member of Parliament for Tawau, Datuk Chua Soon Bui, lashed out at the Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd. (SESB), Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB)
and TM Net for not practising what they preached and contrary to calls by
opposition parties as well the national leaders.
"The general public
suffered as a result of their failures to overcome irregular power
supply and frequent breakdown of Streamyx online services. They also
failed to give prior notices to the general public causing immense
loss of revenue to the business sectors...more
Kota
Kinabalu, Sep 15, 2009: SAPP Deputy President, Datuk Eric Majimbun,
on Monday called on the State Land and Survey Department to reveal how
many of the so-called Native Title land have been converted to plantations
in Sabah.
He said apart from that the people should also know the total area of
village customary land, burial grounds and native forest reserves already
owned by individuals.
"The people also want to know whether Cap. 68 of the State Land Ordinance
has truly been enforced accordingly. An ancestral burial ground in Inanam
is owned by an individual with a CL title?how could this happen without
the knowledge of the village head?," he asked...more
 Tawau,
Sep 14, 2009: SAPP Supreme Councillor Kenneth Goh, chided the BN government for
imbalance of allocation funds from the Federal Stimulus Package to Tawau
especially on development.
Goh expressed concern after the Chief Minister said in the press that 60% of the
allocation to Sabah had been used so far in the 9th Malaysia Plan. Tawau
People would like to know the amount that had been allocated for progress
in Tawau and the benefit it entails...more
 Tawau, Sep 13, 2009:
SAPP Vice President and
Member of Parliament for Tawau Datuk Chua Soon Bui, urged the Prime
Minister, YAB Dato' Sri Najib bin Tun Razak to extend the National Energy
Commission to Sabah in view of the repeated power disruptions that have
haunted the people of Sabah especially Tawau for more than 20 years. Up to
now, no assurance has been given by the SESB/TNB on regular and reliable
power supply.
She asked how much longer does the people of Sabah have to suffer and
how much longer does the business sectors have to 'succumb' to huge
losses...more
Tawau, Sep 10, 2009: SAPP Vice President and
Member of Parliament for Tawau, Datuk Chua Soon Bui, said it was very
serious matter concerning the recent relevation in New Sabah Times on 5th
Sept. 2009 and Chinese dailies on 6th Sept. 2009 regarding the possibility
of granting MyKad applications to about 200 illegal immigrants from
Kalabakan Tengah 1 from 10 -12 August 2009...more
Kota Kinabalu, Sep 9, 2009: SAPP deputy president Datuk Eric Majimbun is disappointed with the action of some Government
Linked Companies (GLC) in the state which he claimed have disregarded the
plight of Sabahans...more
 Kota
Kinabalu
Sep 6, 2009: SAPP on Friday vowed to help
villagers, particularly those of Kampung Rampayan Laut in Menggatal near
here, to protect the lands they have been staying on all this while.
Its President, Datuk Yong Teck Lee, said the party will ensure the
villagers, particularly of the said village, will not be marginalised or
left out if their land is taken over for any development project either
for commercial or public purposes.
"I see there are surveying works already done here and if the project
planned to be implemented is housing for the rakyat, particularly for the
affected villagers, then SAPP will support it," he said...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Sep 5, 2009: The SAPP Deputy President Datuk Liew Teck Chan said the time has not come to
abolish work permit requirements of West Malaysians and Sarawak who work
in Sabah.
Although the government is promoting the 1 Malaysia concepts, many
unsolved problems in the state, especially the high unemployment rate of Sabahans, make it inappropriate for it to be implemented at this time...more
 Sep
4, 2009: (The Borneo Post) Kota Kinabalu: Sabah remains the poorest state
in Malaysia even after 46 years of independence.
On this SAPP deputy president Datuk Eric
Majimbun said almost a quarter of Sabahans fall below the poverty line.
"What makes it worse is that the leaders in Kuala Lumpur are ignorant of
this fact. Almost 24 per cent of Sabahans live below the poverty line,
that is, 24 out of 100 Sabahans are poor," he said.
The Sepanggar member of parliament compared Sabah with Kelantan, the
poorest state in the peninsula which is governed by PAS since a decade
ago, and pointed out that the poverty rate there is only seven per cent...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Aug
30,
2009: It has been 298 days now since the tower block at the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital (QEH) in Kota Kinabalu was shut down after it was declared
unsafe.
We the people, Malaysians in the State of Sabah, who have elected our
representatives in both the State Assembly and the Parliament, and
who are angered by those who choose to ignore, obstruct or water
down the health care challenges faced with no general hospital for
the city of Kota Kinabalu that is so desperately needed, do hereby petition as follows...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Aug 28,
2009: SAPP elected representatives, Datuk Liew Teck Chan, Datuk Eric Majimbun and Melanie Chia has called for
the setting up of a special task force to solely look into the citizenship
issue of many elderly Sabahans.
The party's Deputy Presidents. Liew and Eric as well as its Wanita
Movement Chief, Melanie were of the opinion that back logged cases
pertaining to citizenship applications by those born before Malaysia was
formed can be expedited through the special task force....more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Aug 23, 2009: Sabah Progressive Pary (SAPP)
Information Chief Chong Pit Fah said that the party is confident that many
of the government appointees who have left SAPP under intense pressure
from BN government will continue to support SAPP's cause in their own
way..
"These
'defections' to BN parties by political appointees holding
government posts was a scenario that SAPP had envisaged last year when
SAPP deliberated its membership in the BN government.
"This is a challenge that SAPP has overcome because the vast majority
of government appointees have sacrificed their jobs to stay with SAPP...more
Kota Kinabalu, 22 Aug 2009:
SAPP described report
that 500 members are joining the Peninsular based Parti Gerakan as
baseless...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Aug 19, 2009: SAPP told the government to get down to the serious work of substantiating its
high-sounding slogans to salvage whatever little credibility it has
remaining.
"The 'People First, Performance Now' slogan is sounding less believable by
the day as the people are subject to barrage of empty promises," said Datuk Richard Yong, the secretary-general of
SAPP...more
Kota Kinabalu, 17 Aug 2009: SAPP has urged Chief
Minister Datuk Musa Hj Aman to stop intimidating and holding the people of
Sabah to ransom over the perennial power supply problem in the state...more
 Tawau, Aug 12, 2009:
SAPP Vice President and MP for Tawau, Datuk Chua Soon Bui said she is fed up
with SESB for the incessant power disruptions in Tawau. She also received
numerous complaints from the people on the frequent brownouts, and nobody attended to their hotline
calls to SESB.
She said despite her many protests, demand and adjournment speech in
the parliament in July regarding the major concerns of the people on the
continuous disruptions of power supply, the ordeal continues to take place
with its worst lasting about 6-7 hours in Sin Onn area last Sunday. Worst
of all, Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd. (SESB) provided an unreliable schedule
of disruptions that they didn't adhere to, causing more damages to the
industries and business sectors...more
Tawau, Aug 10, 2009: Datuk Chua
Soon Bui questioned why Tawau has again been left out of
mainstream development in both the stimulus packages in real contradiction
to Prime Minister's 1 Malaysia concept.
She said Sabah was allocated RM550
million in the first stimulus
package in which Tawau only received RM3 million i.e. 0.5% of the state
total....more
Kota
Kinabalu, August 7, 2009: SAPP has slammed the salary hikes for
the State Cabinet Ministers, Assistant Ministers, House Speaker,
Deputy Speakers, assemblymen and political secretaries between 10
and 30 per cent, describing it as a gross insult to the people of Sabah...more
 Nabawan, Aug 4, 2009:
SAPP received 102
application forms to join the party during its party induction, in Nabawan.
Asbollah Pogonon, 48, handed over the forms to SAPP vice-president
Datuk Frankie Chong Yu Chee. Frankie, when welcoming the new
members, said their inclusion is strengthening the party's presence
in Nabawan...more
Is it not: People First Performance Now says SAPP
 Kota
Kinabalu, 28 July 2009: SAPP said the lower
income folks deserved free City Bus shuttle rides at once and not in the
next two years.
SAPP Wanita Chief Melanie Chia said the free rides could be implemented
without any delay once there is subsidy from the Federal Government.
"What is wrong with asking for a subsidy? There is no reason we could not
ask for such small subsidy," Melanie who is also Luyang Assemblywoman
said in a statement, here...more
Kota
Kinabalu, July 28, 2009: "At last, the Federal Minister finally
admits that there are bogus agents going round the State selling
identification documents. This admission from the Federal Home
Minister is important as if it happens now, one should not discount
the possibility of such a matter has happened in the past, " says
Edward Dagul, who is the SAPP Youth
Leader.
"We in Sabah have known this fact for years. Others like MD Mutalib has
even written books with names and NRIC numbers to prove the existence of
fake identification documents obtained through dubious means. But
what actions have been taken by the authorities? To the layman, none...more
Kota
Kinabalu, July 25,
2009: SAPP Members of Parliament, Datuk
Eric Majimbun (Sepanggar) and Datuk Chua Soon Bui (Tawau) both said
that the Royal Commission of Inquiry on the death of Teoh Beng Hock,
who died a mysterious death at the premises of the MACC should also
include the cause of his death...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, 23 July 2009: SAPP urges Kota Kinabalu City Hall (DBKK) and Lembaga Pelesenan Kenderaan
Perdagangan (LPKP) Sabah to seek allocation from the Federal
Government to subsidise the City Bus operation in the Kota Kinabalu
City area and provide free bus services to the commuters.
The request was made at a briefing on the Kota Kinabalu Public
Transport System at the request of Luyang Assemblywoman Melanie Chia
Chui Ket and Likas Assemblyman Datuk Liew Teck Chan. The briefing
was given by DBKK and LPKP Sabah. It was chaired by the Mayor of
Kota Kinabalu City Datuk Illiyas Ibrahim, JPJ Kota Kinabalu branch
chief Izairuddin Isnin, LPKP Sabah Director Ariffin Samsudin and his
officers were also present...more
Kota Kinabalu, Jul 22, 2009: Datuk
Chua Soon Bui, MP for Tawau, questioned the rational of the few education
policies announced by the Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin who is
also the Education Minister...
more
Kota Kinabalu, July 20, 2009:
Sabah Barisan Nasional (BN) Government is powerless for failing to press
the Health Ministry to solve the healthcare chaos in the State especially
here...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, July 19, 2009: SAPP has called for the
setting up of a royal commission to investigate the mysterious death of Teoh Beng Hock, political aide to Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong
Hian Wah, after being interrogated by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption
Commission (MACC).
In a statement issued here today, SAPP Treasurer-general, Datuk Wong Yit
Ming said SAPP and a majority of the thinking Sabahans were sad and
outraged by Teoh's mysterious death while in the custody of MACC...more
Kota Kinabalu, July 18, 2009: SAPP Youth Chief,
Edward Dagul, said Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's suggestion to the
government to consider repealing the Internal Security Act (ISA) is
a wake-up call similar to people getting up from sleep.
He said, however, it is
still not too late to repeal the draconian Act.
"Badawi have the best
chance to repeal the ISA when he was the Prime Minister. The issue
has been around for too long and many people are victimized but the
government defended it even when many quarters like political
parties, NGOs, SUHAKAM and the Bar Councils pressed for its repeal...more
 Tawau,
July 17, 2009: SAPP Member of Parliament for Tawau, Datuk Dr Chua Soon Bui, said she was not in favour of developing
the 200 acres of state land (the old Tawau Airport) for the sole purpose
of Aerodrome by the Ministry of Transport.
"Firstly, we have to ensure
that the land has been surrendered to the state government by Department
of Civil Aviation (DCA) to prevent a repeat case of what happened on the 5
pieces of recreation land approved for commercial development.
"The 200 acres of land is prime
land within the town vicinity. I propose the local council (Majlis
Perbandaran Tawau) to make a feasibility study of establishing buildings
for both state and federal departments and agencies at the said
site...more
 Kudat,
July 12, 2009: SAPP's rebranding programme received good response from the
Muslim Bumiputeras and non-Muslim Bumiputeras in Sabah.
SAPP is making inroads into the
interior areas after receiving 250 new members from the Kudat zone.
Its treasurer-general and Kudat
zone chairman, Datuk Wong Yit Ming, said that new members from the Rungus
community in Kudat shows that its party non-racial policy is accepted.
Wong also said that since the
withdrawal of SAPP from BN, the party had been receiving good response
from the bumiputeras in Sabah. According to Wong, SAPP is also accepted by
the people because it is a local political party...more
Kuala
Lumpur, July 5, 2009: About RM25.95 billion in revenue was collected
by the Federal Government from Sabah from 1995 to June 15 this year.
Finance Minister Datuk Mohd Najib Tun Razak, said this in reply to
Sepanggar MP Datuk Eric Majimbun during a question and answer
session in Parliament here.
He said the system for recording the Federal Government's revenue
according to State was only created and implemented since 1995...more
Kuala Lumpur, July 4, 2009: Sepanggar Member of Parliament, Datuk
Eric Majimbun, said the construction of a new general hospital in
Kota Kinabalu should be addressed urgently by the Government...more
Kuala Lumpur, July 4, 2009:
SAPP Member of
Parliament Datuk Dr Chua Soon Bui questioned what is the progress on
the review of the SUHAKAM status by Sub-committee on Accreditation (SCA)
in Geneva in March 2009?...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, July 1, 2009: SAPP has called on
its turncoat leader cum Parti Gerakan National Vice President, Datuk
Raymond Tan Shu Kiah to stop being evasive but to accept its counter
challenge to re-contest the two state seats currently held by him
and his Party colleague, Au Kam Wah, besides the four seats
currently held by SAPP Elected Representatives (YBs).
In a statement issued in Sandakan today, SAPP Vice President, Poon
Kee Yang emphatically pointed out that, this was only appropriate
and honorable since Tan had earlier cited moral standing in urging
the four SAPP YBs namely Datuk Eric Majimbun (MP for Sepanggar),
Datuk Chua Soon Bui (MP for Tawau), Datuk Liew Teck Chan (Likas) and
Melanie Chia (Luyang) to resign and re-contest their seats...more
Kota
Kinabalu, June
28, 2009: SAPP Information Chief Chong Pit
Fah said this was because it is a public knowledge that both of them
resigned from SAPP and later joined Gerakan for selfish agenda and
interest, rather than for the people's interest as what they have
been claiming all the while...more
Kuala
Lumpur, June 25, 2009: Over 77 percent or 9.4 million EPF members
have yet to name their beneficiaries as of May 31, 2009 out of the
total of 12.2 million registered members. Only 12.8 million or 23
percent named their beneficiaries.
This was
revealed in Parliament by the ministry of finance when asked by
Member of Parliament for Tawau Datuk Dr Chua Soon Bui during
question time...more
Kota
Kinabalu, June 24, 2009: SAPP president Datuk Yong Teck Lee takes to task the federal ministry of finance
last year to extend the Money Lenders Act 1951 (Act 400) to Sabah to
replace the Sabah Money Lenders Ordinance 1901 (Sabah Cap. 81) was
to curb loan shark activities as their main excuse...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, June 20, 2009: SAPP president, Datuk Yong Teck Lee today said that SAPP is positive about talks
with PKR on preparations for the next general elections.
"The
most sensible part of the election preparations is to agree that the
election should be a one to one contest against the might of the BN
machinery because we must not underestimate the will power of the BN
and UMNO to stay in power at all costs and using all tricks" added
Yong.
This was
conveyed by Yong during a lunch meeting with PKR State liaison
Chairman for Sabah, YB Azmin Ali, this afternoon together with
Deputy President Datuk Eric Majimbun from SAPP...more
Kuala Lumpur, Jun 19, 2009: "The Animal Feed Act 2008 (Rang Undang
Undang Makanan Haiwan 2008) is necessary now for quality control of
animal feed, animal feed additives, antibiotics, hormones and
chemicals, which have been used indiscriminately and which could
endanger human health," said Datuk Dr Chua Soon Bui, Member of
Parliament for Tawau...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Jun 18, 2009: SAPP Vice
President Datuk Wong Yit Ming said the image of the postal service
has been tainted as evidenced by the reluctance of Internet mail
delivery order service providers to send orders to Malaysia.
According to him, a group came to see him complaining about the poor
General Post Office mail security here when they continued to miss
mail after placing orders through the Internet.
One clear case that was reported to the police was the discovery of
the content of missing mail being sold by a person to one of the
shops in the city...more
I THINK
we are farther apart now than we were in 1969.
But you have to remember that I grew up going to an English school,
to a university where there were people of all races. At that time,
although we did think in terms of race, it wasn't in the way people
do now. We felt that we were Malayans. We socialised much better
than we do now...A very wise view,
more....
 Kota
Kinabalu, 16 June 2009: SAPP, the biggest Sabah-based opposition party, surprisingly receiving thousands
membership application ever since left Barisan Nasional barely few
months ago.
SAPP Secretary General Datuk Richard Yong said more than 3,500
Sabahans of various races are joining SAPP after the party left BN
in September 2008.
In a statement, here, today, he said 41 new branches have also been
set up all over the State during that time...more
Kuala Lumpur, 2009 Jun 16 - "The National Service Training Program (PLKN)
has been implemented for 5 years now, but there are still weaknesses
in the programme urgently needed to be improved. The matters of
concern include substandard camp facilities, safety, hygiene and
cleanliness posing health hazards, lack of professionalism of
training personnel, discipline problems of the trainees and, most
importantly, the unexplained mysterious deaths of a number of
participants...more
Kota
Kinabalu, 10 June 2009: The new proposed City Hall new headquarters
can ensure better services to the people living in the city area and
enable DBKK to perform more efficiently and effectively.
SAPP Wanita Chief Melanie Chia said, the
new headquarters proposed to be sited at The Jesselton Point is
timely as it could offer better services when all department is
housed under one roof.
"A New City Hall Building will definitely uplift he image of Kota Kinabalu as a city and the new building would enable more efficiency
and effective management in the provision of services for the
benefits of the people. We hope the delivery system can be further
improved with the better logistic."...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Jun 5, 2009: SAPP vice
president, Jimmy Jawatah hoped the independent third party auditing
of long-term forest licences under the Forest Management Unit (FMU)
which will be implemented in two years as announced by the Forestry
Director Datuk Sam Mannan, should be comprehensive and transparent.
"The auditing among others, the legal compliance of licensees
including the approved Forest Management Plan (FMP) and approved
Annual Work Plan (AWP) for each licensee as well as assessing the
individual licensee's performance on the level of compliance based
on the agreed checklist.
"We are very concern about the rights and privileges of the natives
staying in the forest reserve that fall under FMU areas. We have
received a lot of complains that they ...more
 Kota
Kinabalu, Jun 4, 2009: SAPP Treasurer General Datuk Wong Yit Ming in
a statement said that the policy hinders the growth of manufacturing
in Sabah and Sarawak.
Sabah will always have to "play catch up" with those from peninsula
and this will pose a major challenge to the success of the Sabah
Development Corridor, he said.
"The policy deprives Sabah's industries, the competitive ability to
survive let alone compete with her peninsula counterparts. Unless
the policy is abolished, there is no way for us to compete fairly,
openly and ideally due to the uneven playing field," he said...more...
 Kota
Kinabalu, May 30, 2009: SAPP president, Datuk Yong Teck Lee said that the decision by the BN government to
limit students to take a maximum of only ten subjects in Sijil
Pelajaran Malaysia examinations from next year onwards is an
obscenity in public policy that must be removed immediately.
"Such an
arbitrary decision upsets a lot of students who are already
preparing to sit for more than ten subjects in the next year.
"According to the Deputy Prime Minister, more than 48,000 students
of the 500,000 students last year took more than ten subjects,
accounting for almost 10% of the candidates. "The DPM should worry
less about the students who got top grades and worry more about
those who fail"...
more
Kota
Kinabalu, May 27, 2009: The Barisan Nasional (BN) Government is
discriminating Sabah when it comes to providing the needed
development, in particular, energy supplies, said SAPP.
SAPP Wanita Chief Melanie Chia said it is evidence when the Tenaga
Nasional Berhad (TNB), a Government Linked Company (GLC), which has
been monopolising energy supply in the country, has confirmed that
power from Bakun dam in Sarawak is very unlikely to be channeled to
Sabah .
"Is this another confirmation of the disparity managed by the Barisan Nasional Government," Melanie, who is also Luyang
Assemblywoman asked in a statement, here, today...more
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 Kota
Kinabalu, May 26, 2009: SAPP has urged the
Government to seriously rethink its recent proposal to limit the
number of subjects taken by students in the SPM examination in
future.
In a statement issued here today, SAPP Treasurer-general cum
Education Bureau Chief contended that such a move is absurd,
regressive and detrimental to nation-building in the long run,
especially in this highly-competitive era....more
 Nabawan,
May 25, 2009: Barisan Nasional ( BN ) leaders in the State must not
manipulate the Forest Management Unit ( FMU ) issue to the extent of
confusing the people on its effectiveness.
"In fact, when the FMU was incepted in 1997 when it was my turn to
be the Chief Minister, the State Cabinet at the time understood the
policies. So even though I am now in opposition, it is not nice the
objective of the FMU is politicized," said Sabah Progressive Party (
SAPP ) President Datuk Yong Teck Lee.
Speaking at the SAPP State-level Pesta Kaamatan celebration at
Kampung Saupi, about 2 km from the town here, attended by about
3,000 people, Yong said the real objective of the FMU was to curb
excessive clearing of the forest, apart from protecting the
ecosystem in the long run...more
Kota
Kinabalu, May 22, 2009: Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) proclamation of
the proposed plan to convert Wisma Khidmat into a private hospital
as "the best Kaamatan gift to the people of Sabah" is outrageous and
a gross insult to the people of Sabah, said SAPP Information Chief, Chong Pit Fah...more
May 21,
2009: We huddled long into the night. The shopkeeper kept topping up
our teh tariks and left us alone. He knew the seriousness of our
discussion. He gave the occasional stare in our direction, hoping
perhaps for an inclusion into our midst. We disappointed him and
what we discussed disappointed us even...more
"Whole Cabinet should be sacked for allowing such nonsense year in
year out"
This is simply outrageous! A student with 6A1s getting a Public
Services Department (PSD) scholarship to study engineering while
students with 13A1s and 14A1s not getting any scholarships!
more...
MCA
President and Transport Minister, Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat should
stop running from the question why he had failed to honour his
repeated public undertakings to "tell all" and make public the full
report of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) audit into the
mega-billion ringgit Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal. Malaysians
want to know what he is hiding...more
Kota
Kinabalu, May 17, 2009: The State government should put all its
mind, heart and resources in improving the public healthcare system
in the state, instead of going all out to compete with the private
sector, said SAPP...more
Kota
Kinabalu, May 14, 2009: Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd., (SESB) has
caused lots of inconveniences for failing to notify the consumers on
load shedding and power failures in advance.
more...
 Kota
Kinabalu, May 12, 2009: The construction of the Sea Goddess Statue or
better known as Mazu is being politicised and could divide the
Chinese community in the State, which already enjoy unity over the
years.
Former Hainan Federation of Sabah and Labuan President Foo Fook Ming
said the Minister of Resource Development and Information Technology
Datuk Dr. Yee Moh Chai's recent statement that the State Government
has approved a piece of land in Kudat to the federation for the
construction of the Mazu statue is seen as an attempt to create
animosity amongst the Chinese.
more...
 Kota
Kinabalu, May 1, 2009: Kota Kinabalu is the only city in the world
without a general hospital, a basic requirement for such status,
said Chong Pit Fah, SAPP Information
Chief.
He said the State Capital's people are deprived of the basic
necessary health care services after the Health Ministry had on last
year declared that the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) unsafe forcing
patients to evacuate.
He was referring to the ongoing crisis plaguing QEH, the general
hospital for Kota Kinabalu which is also a referral hospital for the
state. Its patients were evacuated and relocated to the other
district hospitals as well as the Sabah Medical Centre (SMC) last
November, after its Tower Block was declared unsafe...
more...
Kota
Kinabalu, April 30, 2009: The current load shedding is understood to
last until June draws a lot of fury from the people and to make
matters worst Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd. (SESB) had admitted it has
stop transferring energy to the East Coast via the grid system since
several days ago.
And
Sabah, the state with most power failures in the country, deserved
electricity supply from Bakun dam or Murum dam, both in Sarawak and
not Indonesia or Brunei, to address shortages here as well as
overcome the problems once and for all.
More....Do
not hold us to ransom with coal-fired power plant!
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The
nation called Malaysia was born on 16 September, 1963. This is a
historical fact. It cannot be disputed. I remember it very well. I was
already 25 years old at the time. I also remember the day when Malaya
gained independence on 31 August 1957. 1957 was the year I left school.
It was the year I sat for my Cambridge Oversea School Certificate – only
a handful of us. In school my teacher used to discuss with students the
possible merger of North Borneo (as Sabah was then known) Sarawak and
Brunei, all British Colonies. Malaya was never mentioned...
Oct 28,
SAPP received 526 new membership
applications. 
