Candid Insights

Tangan ghaib Fuzhou China di sebalik tuntutan agregator gas Sarawak TERBONGKAR

Untuk memahami perebutan kuasa agregator gas di Sarawak, kita mesti bermula dengan memahami peranan golongan elit Fuzhou. Merekalah jaringan yang dahulu menguasai industri balak bersama keluarga Taib, meraih berbilion ringgit sambil rakyat biasa hanya mendapat serpihan....

MAHB-operated Turkey airport meltdown lays bare the disaster of BlackRock privatisation

When Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) was taken private under a Global Infrastructure Partner (GIP)-led consortium involving Khazanah, EPF and ADIA, it came with grand promises. We were told it would unlock transformation across...

Bagaimana kerajaan Sarawak bina kuasa veto terhadap kerajaan persekutuan

Ada sesuatu yang sedang berlaku di seberang Laut China Selatan. Sarawak, melalui satu langkah politik, telah meluluskan penambahan kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) daripada 82 kepada 99 kerusi. Alasan rasmi? Kononnya untuk mempertingkatkan wakil...

How Sarawak gov is engineering a veto power against federal government

There’s something audacious brewing across the South China Sea. Sarawak, in a bold (or brazen) political move, has just expanded its state assembly from 82 to a whopping 99 seats. The official reason? Better...

Keterlanjuran Kerajaan Sarawak mungkin bangkit semula gabungan penentang lampau

Dalam satu situasi jarang berlaku, pemimpin dan Ahli Parlimen pembangkang termasuk Muhyiddin Yassin, Hamzah Zainuddin, Radzi Jidin, Fadhli Shaari, Saifuddin Abdullah (PN), dan juga Ketua PN Sarawak, Jaziri Alkaf, bersatu mempertahankan Petronas. Premier Sarawak Abang...

Sarawak gov’s Petros overreach may resurrect a grand old coalition against it

In a rare show of unity, opposition leaders and MPs including Muyhiddin Yassin, Hamzah Zainuddin, Radzi Jidin, Fadhli Shaari, Saifuddin Abdullah (PN), and even Sarawak PN chief Jaziri Alkaf rallied to defend Petronas. Sarawak’s Premier,...

Putra Heights inferno – who let this happen?

It’s a day since a massive explosion rocked the peaceful neighbourhood of Putra Heights. A gas pipeline, part of the Petronas distribution network, burst into a raging inferno. The damage? Dozens of homes charred,...

From bold promises to bare minimum: the airport upgrade that never came

Where, oh where, is that much-vaunted capital expenditure (CAPEX) that Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) once promised when it swooped in to acquire Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB)? That is the question on many lips right...