Posts Tagged ‘Sarawak’
(four parts: part 3 , talking about the months of july to september)
Any casual reader of Malaysian newspapers for the third quarter of 2008 would be comprehensively confused. There were developments but they had to be seen through the lenses of the situation preceding and the players involved.
Easy for avid soap opera viewers, not so [...]
(Four parts – this is second part about the changes and posturing in the second quarter of the year)
The theoretical expectation after state governments and opposition coalition in parliament were sorted out in the aftermath of the general election – was governing. That the designated people got on with their roles.
The actual expectation notwithstanding, the [...]
The budget is done, and today on the eve of the country people might not bother too much about it other than the key information: a) because it is the eve of Merdeka and a long weekend, people may have already fled the city by now; b) what is the point to a budget when [...]
“Petronas paid out a total of RM26.839 billion in royalties to the Federal Government and the state governments of Terengganu, Sabah and Sarawak for the financial years ended March 2004 till March 2007.” www.Malaysianinsider.com May 14 2008
Here’s an idea, why not pay the royalties from Petronas direct to Malaysians. Most of of it to [...]