In an act of breathtaking meanness and greed the multi-billionaire Taib family are seeking to deprive impoverished Ibans of one of Sarawak’s last remaining hardwood forests, for a paltry compensation of just RM250 per family.
News publications have been chewing over the figures as Bakun waits to be flooded and have come to some inevitable, long-predicted conclusions. Firstly, the Dam has no genuine economic purpose. Sarawak already has more electricity than its impoverished population can afford to use and the plans to send it to Malaysia by undersea cable was
Samling, the giant logging company owned by the timber tycoon Yaw Teck Seng and favoured with numerous timber licences by the Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, was at the heart of the housing bubble that led to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the world economic crash, according to our exclusive research. We have established that Mountain House, a major new-town development in San Joaquin California, currently labelled as
Sarawak Report would like to enquire of Abdul Taib Mahmud how much he paid for the mansion that Samling passed on to his family in Seattle, USA ? The residence forms an enormous property, standing in its own grounds in one of the most prestigious area of Seattle on Boylston Avenue East. It was passed from a
Scandal highlighted by DAP Taib Mahmud, the Chief Minister of Sarawak, has failed to account for a staggering RM 4.8 billion of government expenditure over the past 3 years alone, according to explosive figures released by the opposition DAP party. This represents more than half the Development Budget, which in turn represents nearly three quarters
Sarawak’s Chief Minister has issued not one word about our expose revealing him to be the majority owner of Sakti International, the Taib’s multi-million dollar property company in the US. Clearly he does not want to test our documented evidence in court. So let us reach some logical conclusions about the Taib family´s other sources of wealth. In his joint capacities as Chief
Sarawak Report has uncovered devastating documents which prove that Abdul Taib Mahmud, Sarawak’s Chief Minister, is the real owner of millions of dollars of property assets held in the name of family members abroad. The damning discovery lays bare a system of private deals, which enabled the Chief Minister to conceal his true ownership of
Following recent exposes about the lavish international properties which the Taib family have for years kept hidden abroad, Sarawak Report feels it is appropriate to also draw attention to the equally staggering opulence of their lifestyle in Kuching. Through the keyhole Most Sarawakians only get a glimpse of the luxury enjoyed by their modestly-paid Cheif Minister,
If the people of Oxford had not heard of Abdul Taib Mahmud, Chief Minister of Sarawak, until today, they certainly know all about him now. His visit, tied to Sarawak’s heavy sponsorship of the Said Business School’s ‘Inaugural Global Islamic Branding and Marketing Forum’, was supposed to buy him credibility. In the event it ended up as a
The Said Business School, Oxford University Taib’s Big Moment As the news about Taib’s top gig in the UK started to break in the astonished host city of Oxford last week, anyone who was anyone in Sarawak was piling into planes (who paid?) to come and applaud the great moment. If you were not invited on Taib’s big trip,
What is the Chief Minister’s Official Salary? Sarawak Report has had its attention drawn to an inaccuracy regarding its reporting of the Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud’s, official salary. For this we apologise, as we have attempted, despite a conspicuous lack of public information, to stick to accurate and objective reporting. In this context we have
One Shocking Report After Another Sarawak’s PKR Leader Baru Bian has expressed his “utter disgust” at the extent of the foreign properties owned by the Chief Minister and his family, as revealed in a series of recent exposes by Sarawak Report. “For us it has been shocking as we read one report after another”, he said. The
