Sarawak Timber Scandal Hits UK – Expose!
Posted Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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Sold as cheap plywood - this is how Sarawak's precious remaining hardwood is ending up in UK store
Two of Britain’s top chain stores have been caught out deceiving their customers over ‘eco-friendly’ wood by our latest Sarawak expose, which has also been taken up by the leading UK paper, the Daily Mail.
We can demonstrate that B & Q and Wickes, which both specialise in selling building and decorating materials, have been knowingly selling wood from Sarawak, falsely labelled as responsibly sourced.
In fact, the accreditation agency, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), has not certified any Sarawak timber, because of the greedy and unsustainable nature of the logging promoted by Chief Minister Taib Mahmud and his business cronies.
The chain stores, which have hundreds of UK outlets between them and are leading brand names, now face potential prosecution under Britiain’s consumer laws for misleading their customers.
How the story was told in the UK
The Daily Mail explains to its readers:
“Environmentalists are particularly worried about the accelerating destruction of the Borneo rainforest, which threatens the orang-utan with extinction, along with an irreplaceable eco-system of rare creatures and plants.
At particular risk is the rainforest in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo, where corruption has in recent decades led to deforestation”.
Asia Plywood Company Sdn Bhd
Asia plywood proudly announces on its website that it is the largest exporter of Meranti wood from Sarawak and specialises in top quality tropical plywood! This is its photograph of logs being loaded on the Rajang River
The cheats behind the scandal is a Malaysian company called Asia Plywood Company, which openly advertises as the largest exporter of Meranti wood and tropical plywood in Malaysia.
The company boasts a large sawmill in Tanjung Manis, which it rents from the company Tegas Kesuma, from where it is believed to be exporting 10,000 cubic metres of timber each month to its headquarters in Kedah.
Despite this, the company managed to get FSC accreditation last year by pledging that at least 70% of the content of its finished plywood was now being sourced from New Zealand plantation pine.
Stamps and labels on the sheets of plywood displayed in the stores
The UK supplier Finnforest has imported tons of this material into Britain (around a quarter of the output), offering it at well below the normal market price for genuine sustainable plywood.
The boards are all stamped with the Asia Plywood Company brand name, alongside the FSC logo and certification. They also all bear stickers claiming it is “wood from responsible sources”.
Consumers in the UK and elsewhere rely on certification by the FSC (the most respected authority) to reassure them that they are not doing damage to the environment, which is why the stores are so keen to be able to display that their wood is eco-friendly.
This is the stamp of approval from the FSC, bearing the logo of Asia Plywood and the company's HQ address in Kedah
B&Q and Wickes snapped it up, leaving genuine FSC products struggling to find an outlet. However, the low prices of this supposedly sustainable plywood caused suspicion amongst timber experts, who knew that genuine plantation pine costs far more to produce.
Keeping consumers happy - these labels were still stuck on the plywood in both Wickes and B&Q long after the stores knew they were actually misleading.
Their inspections immediately revealed that the plywood was in fact almost completely made up of tropical hardwood, such as meranti wood – exactly the material which is being exported in such large quantities by Asia Plywood Company from Tanjung Manis.
Sadly, this fast disappearing Sarawak hardwood, which should be worth much more than pine, is being sold off cheap because of Taib’s policies.
His licences permitting rampant logging mean that Europe and America no longer want to buy Sarawak wood, because of the rainforest destruction. Yet, his crony timber barons are cutting them anyway and selling them off cheap to cheats like Asia Plywood.
Cover up!
According to our information, the timber experts alerted the FSC to the situation towards the end of last year. The authority immediately suspended Asia Plywood’s licence and conducted an investigation. On 6th January the FSC’s investigation agency, Scientific Certification Systems(SCS), concluded:
“Our investigation found that the FSC products sold by Asia Plywood between February 25th, 2011 and present are not FSC certified and should not carry the FSC label or any marks that indicate that the material is certified.
We have requested that Asia Plywood remove the FSC label from any products that they have in stock and that Asia Plywood request the same of the customers to whom they sold these products”. [SCS statement]
Sustainable pine-based plywood from New Zealand or 'Superior Grade Tropical Plywood' from Sarawak?
The FSC also confirmed it had removed its accreditation from the cheating outfit, Asia Plywood Company, meaning that the company can no longer brand its wood with their logo.
However, it was at this point that the two UK stores and the FSC also acted in a way that many would also find culpable.
The stores decided not to remove the labels as requested and the FSC failed to take any steps to make them, despite concerns that customers were therefore being mislead.
Asia Plywood's store in Tanjung Manis
Their later excuse was that the FSC legal department had concluded that because the wood had been believed to be eco-friendly at the time it was bought by the stores, they could continue to sell it to customers under that label. This was despite the fact that the stores now knew that claim was false!
Embarrassing questions for FSC
That decision by the FSC raises serious questions about the integrity of the accreditation agency and also its legal judgement.
How could it be ruled that because B&Q and Wickes had been conned they could legitimately pass on that con to their customers and sell the wood under false pretences? Also, did the fact that B&Q acted as one of the key ‘partners’ in setting up the FSC result in the authority’s dubiously lenient stance on this matter?
Until the day the stores were challenged by the Daily Mail and Sarawak Report both Wickes and B&Q continued to promote the wood as a sustainable product to their unwitting customers, instead of peeling of the sticky labels that claimed the plywood came from “Responsible Sources”!
Conning customers?
Loaded off in containers to line cupboards and drawers around the world
The reason why the stores did not want to peel off the labels seems clear. Most responsible buyers in the UK take care to only buy products that have been labelled by the FSC, because they do not want to encourage the wanton destruction of rain forests like the Borneo jungle by ruthless and greedy individuals like Taib Mahmud.
Likewise, stores like B&Q and Wickes take great pride in advertising that nearly all their products are certified as being sustainably sourced. Indeed Kingfisher, the owners of B&Q have won a number of recent awards in recognition of its responsible approach to the environment. The company boasts:
“Our businesses sell a high volume of timber and products made from or containing wood. Therefore the choices we take regarding which wood products to stock can help protect the world’s forest resources while reducing our impact on climate change. B&Q UK was one of the pioneers of responsible timber sourcing, helping to set up the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in the early 1990s…
The reported volume of timber sold in our stores that comes from proven well-managed forests or recycled sources reached 81% in 2010/11 – up from 77% the previous year and ahead of our target of 75%.” [Kingfisher's Corporate Responsibility webpage]
By removing the FSC sustainability logos from the Sarawak sourced plywood, therefore, B&Q not only faced putting off customers, but would also have been forced to admit that a lower percentage of its products are sustainable!
Panic reaction
Still on sale until yesterday's story!
Once the stores were faced with exposure they immediately moved to defend themselves. B&Q within hours began to strip the wood from their shelves, claiming that after they were called by the Daily Mail “new evidence had come to light”!
Wickes on the other hand tried to claim that it was better to continue to sell the wood, rather than waste it by destroying it!
“Its better to use the dodgy wood than throw it” [Jeremy Bird, MD Wickes]
What the Managing Director of Wickes failed to explain, however, was why it was necessary to continue to lie about the wood in order to sell it. Why not peel off the labels claiming it was sustainable?
Emotive - how the Daily Mail communicated the effects of logging in Borneo to the British public this week
The question now is whether Britain’s trading standards authorities are likely to agree with the strange legal advice from the FSC and the decision by the stores to misrepresent their product?
Once again it seems, the corruption boiling in Sarawak has broken out to compromise others elsewhere.
But, at least attention In Britain has now been drawn to the scandal of Asia Plywood and to the extent of Sarawak’s deforestation. Action should now be taken to prevent Taib’s timber cronies from selling more of the state’s diminishing hardwoods to the UK under the guise of eco-friendly labels.
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In the two Malaysian States of Borneo, only Sabah has planted wood Acacia mangium. It was planted during Datuk Harris Salleh Administration for pulp and paper industry. It has however being used in the manufacture of wooden furniture for overseas market. Is this eco-friendly source of timber? FSC certified?
Sarawak on the other hand just recently 'embarked on a mini-scale' planting of trees over degraded forested areas. There is no eco-friendly source of timber in Sarawak at the moment. All wooden products produced in Sarawak are made from mixed tropical hardwood either from Sarawak own dwindling jungle or 'illegally' sourced from neighboring country.
To plant Acacia mangium, still deforestation is needed… what do you mean by eco – friendly source of timber? its not about planting one or two trees, it involves thousands of hectare my friend. last time it used to be rainforest, but now it's a whole Acacia plantation.. and oilpalm
so what are you going to do about it.tblame it on the orang putih who chopped the rain forest for almost 3 centuries and the malaysian do it now,you guys wanna be upset and say we must keep the forest and orang utan.
Dayak, are you a fcking retard by putting on such comments? Why do we need to follow the Orang Putih's stupidity? It's all about sustainability and preserving what is for our future generations.
lau…you sound like the china foochow who illegally deforest the timber……sustainability my foot…only reason dayak go with taib is they don want the china fowchow to rape them even more….we dayak knows how and what you do for the money….
Taib's Lover, do you know that sustainable forest management was and still is an idea mooted by taib? How dare you dare give taib your foot for his own idea? By the way, where EXACTLY do you want to put that foot on taib?
Do you even know that those huge timber concessions given to his chinese cronies are with his signature on them? Illigal deforestation are done by those who do not have timber concessions within those legally given concessions and ofcourse those trusted to guard the forest made the money from those illigal activities. Who do we blame this time mr taib's lover? Not the orang putih again i hope!
Lau..we all know that you are liable for the Rainfiorest destructions.Pa Lu Li Asal Lui Latang..NO moral values..We don;t doubt that you love ATM for your bread and butter as the dayaks expense. NO CSR…just go ahead with your forest destruction and cut trees,more trees,more trees..Ching Kulung Mo Ka Nyen!! Sa ni ne kuyong!! Lui,Lui,Lui in your eyes,ears,mouth ,heart and head.
The orang putih did log the forest for a long time and continue to do so- so learn from the mistakes made. Look for sustainable ways to make income- there are many and they the returns will last longer than returns from logging. Maintain the pride of the Dayak's and their protect ancestral land. What to do about it? … get rid of Taib!- granted though- this is possibly the hardest thing of all to do!
The orang putih chopped the tree for 3 centuries you say but who did the chopping until the land is totally devoid of trees? Why still blame the orang putih who has moved on and left us to rule over our own. Do you realised that the penans came into the lime light because of present day logging? Do you know that the natives started protesting because of present day logging? They did not protest 3 centuries ago beacuse there was nothing to protest against. Logging was not clear cutting of a whole junggle, not displacing, not encroaching and not depriving people effected of their livelihood. Why do we still blame the orang putih for our own present day greed and folly mr taib's lover?
3 centuries ago the orang putih did the logging and s.r and clare's grand parent were the colonial master but now when taib and dayak doing it,its wrong and not sustainable.the dayak then did nothing because no tukang hasut from the orang putih now they are the tukang hasut and putting whatever we dayak do to be wrong and stupid.
please then fochow was brought down from china to chopped the sibu and rajang timber for rubber plantation,who was protesting,even if the dayak were to protest they were put down by the orang putih but now the orang putih try to hasut the dayak again.
and if we dayak dont go behing all of you,we are cheap or stupid.we just dont want to listen to all of you.
let see how the dayak as a whole will responce this election.sorry,dayak knows what is best for them.
Yes, the Dayaks do know what's best for them. You a fraud do not.
Your description of history itself is already wrong.
- Its not the British government who were ruling Sarawak, but just the Brooke family
- Clare is not related to the Brookes.
- 3 centuries ago, Sarawak was still under the Brunei Sultanate
- The Chinese were preliminary involved in trading and mining, and its definitely not logging activities
- Large scale logging as such that destroys the native rain forests only started during taib's time in office
Yes, Dayaks are not cheap or stupid. We know you are not one of us.
Dayak love Taib is the type of Dayak with no dignity and willing to be a slave to melanun pirate throughout eternity! This type of person is cheap, useless and stupid!
He's not even a Dayak. He's not even Malaysian, chances are that he's just a paid foreign propagandist
wow,thanks…i am so good for a dayak to be akin to foreign propagandist……thanks,thats a compliment for a dayak with only grade3 spm and yes jabu help me to go to vocational matang…thanks jabu…only certificate in machanic….not bad for a longhouse boy….and yes taib government do put us poor dayak into the mainstream of development…..now…i am haappy to vote for taib and jabu all the way…..not like the rest of you in s.r and p.r…tukang hasut and perosak hidup rakyat with your mentality….and will destroy the dayak future of developement.
Oh really? so who's your headmaster during the time you were there at SMVK?
sorry…not telling you adrian….you not getting me to spill who i am,unless you want to have a debate with me.imagine,i can out you all to shame….dayak love taib is a 31years old now.you cannot kill a grown man.i only come out if you want to have a debate with me with cnbc cnn abc al jazeera or bbc tv3 all the mess media covering the event….come on yo…dare you….you want to know me…lets do it….fix it if you all are right it gives you good political milage…
More and more exposures by SR will create awareness and eventually people will support the POOR dayaks of Borneo. This is due to GREED by the Melanun group, a new race in Sarawak discovered.
Inland Revenue Board really making spoof joke of itself when its own HQ was built by bunch of Ali Baba Crooks Cronies
Talk about taxman sleeping with crooks!
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Ali Baba Projek Title: Proposed National Tax Academy branch campus, Kuching, Sarawak
Cost: RM140 million
Main Contractor: Javel Engineering / KACC Group / Bustari PBB Goons
Sub-Contractor: Perbena Emas / Pansar Group Ali Baba 10 persen
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A. Maklumat Syarikat: :
Company Name : JAVEL ENGINEERING SDN. BHD.
Address : 7H-I, 3RD. FLOOR BAN HOCK ROAD
Postcode 93100
Town : KUCHING
State: SARAWAK
D. Maklumat Ahli Lembaga Pengarah:
Bil Nama Warganegara Jawatan
1.AHMADI BIN YUSOFF MALAYSIA PENGARAH
2.DRAHMAN BIN SAIT MALAYSIA PENGARAH
3.MOHAMAD NADZIFF BIN BUSTARI MALAYSIA PENGARAH URUSAN
4.MOHAMAD ZAIDEE BIN ABANG HIPNI MALAYSIA PENGARAH
H.Maklumat Projek:
Bil Tajuk Tarikh Anugerah Nilai (RM) Klien
Akademi Pencukaian Malaysia Cawangan Timur 18-07-2008 RM 140,000,000.00
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National Tax Academy branch campus in Kuching
By SHARON LING
KUCHING: The Inland Revenue Board’s (IRB) National Tax Academy will open its first branch campus here, with two more later in Malacca and Sabah.
IRB chief executive and director-general Datuk Hasmah Abdullah said the campuses were needed as the academy’s main campus in Bangi, Selangor, could no longer accommodate the increasing number of staff and officers who needed to be trained.
“Opening up branch campuses will help us achieve our vision of becoming a tax administrator of international standards by allowing us to continue pro*ducing highly-trained and skilled staff,” she said at theground-breaking ceremony for the campus at Jalan Tabuan here on Friday.
See this: Hasmah showing Taib (centre) and assistant minister in the Chief Minister’s Department Larry Sng a model of the National Tax Academy’s branch campus in Kuching.
The ceremony was performed by Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud.
Hasmah said the academy had been set up as the IRB’s training arm to produce staff who were highly disciplined, professional, competent and knowledgeable in carrying out their work.
She said the academy had also opened its training courses to the public and international participants besides offering a number of courses in part*nership with overseas insti*tu*tions. This included the Orga*nisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Commonwealth Association of Tax Administration, the Japan International Coo*peration Agency and the Australian Tax Office.
The RM140mil branch campus is expected to be ready in July 2010.
Located on a 1.78ha site, its facilities will include an administration and academic block, multi-purpose hall, auditorium, hostel, staff quarters and computer lab.
It will also house the Kuching investigation and intelligence office.
When completed, it will be able to accommodate 300 trainees and 120 staff at any one time.
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Tax academy in S’wak likely to be ready by year-end
Bernama News, March 3, 2010, Wednesday
KUCHING: The Malaysian Tax Academy Sarawak, the Inland Revenue Board’s (IRB) training institution, is expected to be ready by year-end.Sarawak IRB director Romli A Hamid said the Academy, expected to cost RM124 million, will be used to train staff in the field of taxation and management to enable them to undertake duties in a professional manner.
“Construction work on the Academy on a 4.4-acre site in Jalan Tabuan here, began in 2008 and is proceeding to schedule, with the completion date set for this November.
“The intake of IRB staff to undergo training is expected to begin next year,” he told reporters after a gathering of Federal Agencies in Sarawak at the Bangunan Sultan Iskandar here yesterday.
Romli said the Academy will have an administrative and academic block,investigations branch as well as hostel.
The Malaysian Tax Academy Sarawak is the IRB’s second.
Its pioneer Academy is in Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor and began operations in September 1984 to reinforce the knowledge and expertise of officers, in meeting the demands of a dynamic tax system.
Meanwhile, Romli said the IRB Sarawak has targeted to collect RM2.9 billion in tax for this year, compared to the estimated RM2.85 billion for 2009.
He also said the IRB would enhance its online service as well as the security of information, apart from enhancing its other electronic services from time to time, to ensure the level of delivery to taxpayers is guaranteed. — Bernama
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The taxman has a university dream
by Lim How Pim, Borneo Post, Friday January 13, 2012
FIRST IN EAST MALAYSIA: Mohd Shukor (centre) and others react after the opening of Malaysian Tax Academy Kuching.
KUCHING: Malaysian Tax Academy Kuching – the first of its kind in East Malaysia – will be run like a university offering tax-related courses for the community.
Inland Revenue Board chief executive officer Datuk Dr Mohd Shukor Mahfar hoped the academy would gradually be recognised by professional bodies at both national and international levels.
“It is a dream of mine that the academy will be able to produce graduates and have its own convocations.
“We all share the dream of turning the academy into a regional hub to train experts in taxation based on international standards,” he said when opening Malaysian Tax Academy Kuching at Jalan Tabuan here yesterday.
Mohd Shukor said the academy would help instill a sense of pride and ownership into their personnel in the city and the state in general.
“I take pride that Malaysian Tax Academy Kuching, the first and so far the only taxation training institution in East Malaysia fully recognised by the government, will emerge as a landmark in Sarawak.”
The academy, he said, would move towards producing and grooming officers who could portray high quality and competency in discharging their duties.
The first academy in Bangi is capable of housing slightly over 200 trainees at any one time. Thus, the Kuching campus built at a cost of RM140 million should help address the congestion. Sitting on a 4.4-acre land, Malaysian Tax Academy Kuching has a 124-room hostel, 11 lecture rooms, an administrative block, a multipurpose hall, an auditorium, surau, parking and sport facilities
Mohd Shukor believed that these facilities would satisfy the needs of both trainers and trainees. He also placed high hope that the academy would play a pivotal role in the nation’s human capital development which in turn would help in the growth of Malaysia’s economy.
Exclusive friendly golf game between YS and IRB top executives lately with unusually attractive cash prices and fringes?
its all about timber busisness and s.r is just out to discredit just about anything.
problem with this NGO, its a form of religious belief,you are right but others seems to be wrong and whatever does not suit your point of view and belief;they are to be fried alive.
you NGO s can keep your side of the bargain but leave the others out of your belief.
you seem to think that this timber business is part and parcel of your agenda but the lives of many have been kept alive in sarawak by this business.may not be perfect but then again what is.lifes is lets live and die.its a process.many dayak family lives on their men working in the timber business from the loggers to the lorry truck drivers.
ALL YOUR GUYS THINK IS SAVE THE RAIN FOREST BUT FOR WHOSE BENEFIT,YOURS OR THE DAYAK OR THE ORANG UTANS.
WE NEED IT TO SUSTAIN OUR ECONOMY,SAY WHAT YOU WANT,LIKE I SAY NOT OF YOU PUT TOGETHER CAN WIN THE PENDING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION.NONE.IF YOU CAN THEN DO IT.IF ITS JUST COMPALINING LEFT RIGHT AND CENTRE,WELL MANY ARE DOING IT BUT NOT THE MAJORITY OF THE SARAWAKIANS VOTERS.OR THE DAYAK MAJORITY.
LIKE I SAID THE DAYAK RATHER TAIB THEY KNOW THEN ANY OF YOU GUYS,THEY DONT KNOW.
if i were you guys stop disturbing us in sarawak,if you are concerned so much about rainforest why harp on sarawak taib and the dayaks,why not sabah, and kalimantan(it is even bigger the sarawak),and the other rain forest regions in the other part of the world like brazil.
ya oviously you motive is to get rid of taib but who can fill the vacuum,p.j.j.or baru or granda or who.
at this point of time,sarawak is under taib and the dayak leaders.
s.r is just a media tool to try to create negative political milage for the opposition,if its just about orang utan then do it in sumatra or java or kalimantan but why sarawak.please its the same old story,get rid of taib and get the wealth for one self,thats the agenda.
any dayak knows that reason why so much fuss about sarawak timber and rain forest is to try to get rid of taib so that the opposition can have a free hand on sarawak for their own economic agenda.its again the deep blue sea we dont know.
better the deep blue ocean that we don't know than to commit suicide by not changing course when there's a whirlpool in front of you. feel free to commit suicide on your own, but others may not share you point of view
adrian,the dayak want taib and this have been going on for 31years…….you job is to get all the dayak to be convince to go otherwise but can you,or do all the dayak trusdt you with their future or taib.
suicide……well so far so good no dayak commiting suicide because of taib being a a bad chief minister…
elections after election,the dayak voted him and b.n into power…certainly thats not suicidal….
dn be stupid with the media of the opposition,nothing else they can say good about sarawak ands the dayak choice of c.m which is taib,they p.r wants putra jaya and petra jaya….well let the dayak decideand after that is done…..please just shut the fcuk up.
let dayak decide and respect the majority decision.
funny is it not? You are already contradicting yourself here.
First of all, the exposes on this website is to convince the dayaks that they are being screwed over. Can you deny the issues being brought up at all? Can you deny that there's currently about 200 land grab cases pending in the courts bring brought up by the dayaks and others?
You say that its important to convince the dayaks. But you whine when there's effort to do so. What's wrong with you?
Yes, let the dayaks decide, but let when decide when they have the right information, not just the government propaganda that you seem to love so much.
adrian,are you doing a good job,look if the information is totally accurate sure the dayak will listen to you but for now who is listening…..its just land grab and timber…taib is corrupt like the whole world is not….najib is a bad but who is good….you memang sudah not in this earth working you somewhere in the blue sky kingdom..
the dayak are happy with life in sarawak and taib as c.m,let them alone.let them decide in this pending election,ya right information,if it is so right then you will win the election.as for now you guys are losers.
Sure they're so happy that they're showing their happiness by burning down a logging camp
let see how effective are you are speaking the truth….if its indeed the truth then the truth will set the dayak free…but if its not the truth the dayak are not listening.
Yes of course, the truth will set the Dayaks free. So why are you whining like you are doing now at the attempt to send the truth to the Dayaks? Perhaps you've got something to hide hmm?
I just read somewhere else today that folks from 22 dayaks long houses in Ensebang-Melikin area are being screwed from behind. Three longs house chiefs,Alex Libau,Tinsun Anchau and Augustine Bagat made separate police reports regarding their NCR land being taken from them. These folks are staunch BN supporters who gave Snowdan Lawan their votes during the last election. Do you know who they turned to for support when none of BN lawyers want to help them? Yes you got it right..Baru Bian whom you called a loser. Now i challenge you to go and tell these BN supporters that all is well under taib and BN,that their lands will not be taken away to be given to a crony or ex-minister? Look them straight in their eyes while you tell them this! Btw i like Baru's conditions….
i dont have to tell them….the election result will speak louder the s.r report or free sarawak radio…..let the dayak vote whom they love…dont be jealous….dayak love taib….
Yes we already know you are Taib's Lover. Why so insecure in your love for him. He is paying you well for loving him so you do not have to remind yourself over and over again that you love him more then you love others!
Now don't be jealous if you see him with his new wife.ok taib's lover?
How long can the people in Sarawak stay in a state of denial over their government's misdeeds and in this latest expose, implicated in fraudulently using eco-friendly labels for Sarawak timber products to deceive the British buying public? No matter how you look at it, it's a form of cheating, We hope the British office of Fair Trading and law enforcement agencies would intervene and book the offenders. That would teach some of the State ministers a thing or two about honesty and fair play.
Thank you SR for the expose!! We appreciate that We love you all at SR!! Keep up the excellent work!!!!
Hmmm. It seems that the Brits are as corrupt as us. Who would have believed it?
No favour anymore for wicked and corrupt CM, enough is enough…..If you become leader for too long, you have the tendency to become evil MONSTER!!! Keep up the good work for justice and restore our dignity.
TAX ACADEMY SHOULD TEACH ON THE FOLLOWINGS":
1. TAX EVASION
2.THE ART OF CORRUPTION.
3.HOW TO CATCH A SHARKS
4.IGNORE FRIES
5.MONEY LAUNDERING
6.HUMAN TRAFFICKING
7.PROJECTS AND COST ACCOUNTING..(.ALLOW ONLY 30% MARGIN ONLY AS THAT IS FAIR.)
8 THE ART OF CORRUPTION IN TAX OFFICE BY TAX OFFICERS.
IT IS NOT A ONE DAY COURSE OR ONE MONTH COURSE BUT ONE YEAR COURSE.
hahaha,should go to africa or south america and see how they operate,its a taib or the whole universe sickness of corruption.
Feel free to make yourself comfortable in south america or africa if you like the system there so much. but I won't want my homeland to be condemned in a similar manner. But then again, its not as if you care right? seeing that you're not even from Sarawak in the first place right?
you cannot change the dayak and whom they want to vote for……..get this correct…..the dayak dont trust others but taib….and they dont want forest but cities……so how about maxico and brazil,why not s.r do something there……why just sarawak……look at brazil….they are clearing their rain forest what are s.r doing about it….please get real…..
200 + land grab cases currently in the courts, and getting more. This shows how little the trust is.
Sarawak Reports obviously focuses on Sarawak in case you're unaware of the term 'Sarawak' in the name of the website.
So, in return to you, please get read instead of being in denial.
How ignorant can you be about Brazil and othe countries! By the way we are not defending other countries here, we are defending our own. And seriously,i do not believe you are a dayak at all. Dayaks loves the forest as much as you love taib.
shows you that our country is just like other country or even batter…make a comparision then you know the dayak are happy or not…..WELL LET THE DAYAK VOTES AS FOR THE COURT CASES ONLY MINORITY…WHAT THE WHOLE MAJORITY HAVE TO SAY….AND YES MANY ARE CONVERTED TO S.R AND P.R PUNYA PROPAGANDA…BUT LETS SEE WAT THE MAJORITY WILL SAY.
Yes that's right. Its a simple matter for me to merely just print out content from here, complete with your hilarious comments, and send it back to the folks back at home for them look at and also to spread to the rest of the community there.
And mind you, I won't be the only ones doing as such. Plenty of others in other parts of Sarawak doing the same too
Unlike you who are very likely outside of Sarawak who will not be able to do as such easily.
Seriously,i do not believe you are a dayak. You are hiding behind your dayak love taib name. Btw are you now saying the BN gov't doesn't care and can just forget about the minority? 200 courts cases is not a small number if it invoves 200 long houses and communities all across sarawak! There is no propaganda in these court cases. These are real people with real problem that need to be addressed by the gov't of 30+ years. And what do you do to help these folks?…..You are only good at loving taib!
In the event that you cannot read properly, the name of this website is SARAWAK Reports. Hence the focus on Sarawak. Those behind this website has got their own background ties to Sarawak, and not Mexico or Brazil and so forth.
Clare herself was born in Sarawak. Papa Orang Utan is a Dayak.
orang utan born in sarawak dont make them sarawakians…orang putih born in saarawak don make them sarawakians……like chinese born in malaysia,we dont call them malay…they are chinese but we dayak are dayak and sarawakians.and we daayak love taib.
The Western model of development based on industrial growth and expansion is no longer tenable because it requires increasing and never ending use of the Earth’s resources to which there is a limit supply and fast depleting. To address this limitation, sustainable development models have cropped up to address development issues and strategies which recognize “the vital relationship between biological resources, well-functioning ecosystems and economic development at multiple levels”.
At the community level, the most venerable are the indigenous groups where biological resources and ecosystems are vital for their continuing survival and existence. Endogenous means ‘growing from within’ and you don’t need to be a development expert to figure out that the more communities are self-sufficient, the less dependent they are on the government. Politicians don’t like this because they want communities to be continually dependent on them. “Development” – whose agenda is it anyway?
aborium,when you die and when the forest are all gone mankind will still exist and know how to adept.
dont worry about the future generation,worry about yourself and your salvation after your life on earth is over.
since the time of adam,and the great flood and many wars and famines and destruction.mankind have adept to their new environment well,let us dayak in sarawak adept to our new environment.dont used western civilization as an example,we `dayak can survive even anywhere and come what may.
dont worry as for now,taib and dayak are one via b.n and thats how it is.and yes to deforestation,until there no buyer of timber,why should we stop…..cut all the timber and sell it to u.k,and the money is good why not.
but get the dayak to vote for all of you guys in p.r thats the uphill task which you all cannot do.
it still taib and b.n,so how.dayak still love taib.
I'll say that you're a fraud. Not even a dayak at all. Those living in sync with nature will nature otter such words. And nobody in their right minds will be as selfish as to be totally unconcerned for the future generations as you are.
btw. I'm a dayak, and I say that taib must die.
IF YOU ARE A DAYAK THEN SURELY THE DAYAK WILL ALL LISTEN TO YOU,AS FOR ME I AM THE ONE WITH THE MAJORITY VOICE.
and dayak love taib….so how…tell that to the rest of the dayak majority behind my back.
its very obvious that you're a fraud, when you addressed Bian Baru as merely 'Baru'. Anybody from Sarawak will know that Baru is not Bian's name, but his father's name. People address each other mainly by their first name, as the way names are given, there's no family name. They take their father's name as their last name.
adrian….baru bian….baru is his name lah…like his brother name freddie acho bian….his name is freddie acho…not baru….you know sarawak or not,i find that you dont know things in sarawak,bet you the foreigner s.r propagandist.
like you dont know who is rentap in sarawak and he is alive and kicking but you said he is a pirate…and hang tuah is actually a chinese and came with puteri ang li poh….you know nuts or your history you flunk….Laksamana ang cheng ho came to where….kuching or kota kinabalu….if you cannot answer this you the fraud….don google….use your head….
Have you ever visited a dumping ground anywhere in the cities in sarawak? If you did then tell me who are the majority digging through mountains of filth every day. They even raise their children in cudboard box they call home right next to the dump site! Now can you go tell all those dayaks that all is well under Taib and BN? Ask them why they left the long house for the filth in the dump site? Look them straight in the eyes when you ask them. Then tell us here in SR what has taib's and BN done to help them in the last 30+ years!
well go to smoky mountain in philiphines or india…..
feel free to move to India then if you love that sort of living environment. however we do not wish our homeland to be the same as those dumps. then again, you're not even in Sarawak are you, let alone a Dayak?
Is that where taib sent you to study? No wonder our dump sites are well populated!
if you go to the best university but cannot even led the dayak to unite for 31years……you a failure….your university qualification is of no use…..what taib did to the dayak is unite them under b.n….this is what he did to the dayak for 31years….if i learnt anything is from taib and jabu on how to handle the dayak and unite them under one roof….b.n,that also not easy…..if credit is ever due its to taib and jabu for uniting the dayak leaders and govern sarawak succesffully for 31years which
many have tried to destroy but cannot and majority of the dayak acknowledge this.
thats why dayak love taib….if not sarawak is like sabah…rotation chief minister…..HAIL TAIB AND JABU…..dayak owe you both this and more for uniting the dayak….
Unite the Dayak you mean? If dayaks are united they will be under one party and that party will be ruling sarawak not PBB which is propped up by dayaks who do not see eye to eye with other dayaks. Yes dayaks supports parties which are aligned to BN but do you know that these parties leaders and members hates each other to bits.Masing,Jabu and Mawan are dayak leaders but can you as taib's lover unite them under one dayak party or you are happy that taib divide and rule over them? Why the dayaks as majority the poorest amongst all the races in sarawak? But then again why should you bother about all this. You only know your love for taib
Points to Ponder:
“Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere… In these circumstances, a return to business as usual is not an option. Prosperity for the few founded on ecological destruction and persistent social injustice is no foundation for a civilised society.”
(Sustainable Development Commission Report,March 2008)
Latest news. The thief minister youngest brother, Ibrahim Mahmud, 69, died today of stroke. Question..why not Taib himself? God is loving,Taib. He's giving you chances after chances to repent. As for that dog dayak love taib, you don't represent the dayaks so go loco your batang.
minopake..Sad as the wrong one died.
IF YOU ARE A DAYAK THEN SURELY THE DAYAK WILL ALL LISTEN TO YOU,AS FOR ME I AM THE ONE WITH THE MAJORITY VOICE.
GOD LOVE TAIB BECAUSE EVERY SUNDAY FOR THE PAST 31YEARS THE DAYAK PRAY FOR THE LEADERS OF THE COUNTRY AND FOR GOD TO GIVE THEM WISDOM AND LONG LIFE TO GOVERN THE COUNTRY AND STATE.
GOD ANSWER THE DAYAK MAJORITY PRAYER AND INDEED GAVE TAIB ALONG LIFE AND ALSO JABU.
KEEP PRAYING DAYAK FOR OUR C.M AND D.P.M.
ALL THE DAYAK ARE PRAYING FOR TAIB.CERTAINLY GOD WILL REWARD US.
Really? They're more of praying for their poverty issues to be resolved, rather than praying for taib. very obvious that you're just grasping at straws now
you never been to church thats why you dont know wh0 the dayak pray for….they pray for the peace of the country and pray for the leaders of the country…adrian…about time you go to church….its people like you never go to church but cakap diri christian…..if you go to church you know what the pastor and father and bishop pray for…its always peace and stability and the leaders to give the wisdom and long life.
thats why taib and jabu and mawan and masing and gramong have long life….thanks you GOD for answering our prayers and the churches prayers.
Two wrongs dont make a right! We can still save the world and we begin now by taking action. First by ourselves and we should know what to do come any election…issues and not 3Rs or divide and rule/fear factor as the basis in crossing the ballot paper. Then we start to move on to the next level by trying to communicate and impress upon our next person our stand/issues and then to the next level family/relatives/community/public then go to election ceramahs to make believe/confirm our stand before the final count down and vote with our strong hope that clean and fair election will prevail and produce govt of the RAKYAT by the RAKYAT and for the RAKYAT. Come on come all…dont just brag NATO for 55 years and now is the chance. Try this strategy and it works…………..
yes God loves taib not only the dayaks,long live taib.if dayak love taib is a dog then the majority of the dayk who vote for taib are dogs…and jabu masing mawan and gramong are all dogs…..and you guys all orang hutan…..what stupid remark…when dayak love taib is a fact….as for loco…your guys all suka loco cos cannot get the real thing.
I'm sure the folks back at home will love your comment here. taib's propaganda people calling the Dayaks dogs
adrian if you so gud why don you get all the dayak to hate taib which you cant…..if you know baru…then you know freddie…..i dont care if their father's name is burung pipit……all i know is baru bian bin burung pipit,a small bibit wants to be c.m.his community the lun bawang is just a small pipit compare to the dayak majority who loves taib.yet he wants to be c.m.
like i said don try to belit….because if you so good,i dare you to debate in padang merdeka,kuching…..topic taib the best c.m of sarawak and dayak loves him for 31years and will do so for another 31years if GOD permit.
get all you best advisors,i stand alone.lets go public….
as for now you are nothing until you can get the c.m.ship from taib whom dayak love.
time will tell if dayak truely and still love taib…..you and s.r…and the rest have no power until this is so.
You are begining to sound desparate and not dayak at all. If we follow your logic then taib should not be cm cos the MALAYNOW (Modern Melanau) is a minority race just like the lun bawangs. He would have never be cm if he and his uncle didn't cheat and stole it from the dayaks. And you love that kind of character which shows exactly the kind of person you are. If taib was contented with just stealing and cheating to get the cm post and did not cheat and steal to be rich and powerful,we rakyat will have no bones to pick with him. Instead of working for the rakyat whom you said love him but he worked the rakyat to poverty to make only he himself rich. But then,the fact is he's your lover and you are his and some dayaks who loves his money are in it as well. You just Pray that taib live longer for you to enjoy more!
Don't worry, working on it. News from the folks at home is that their minds are changing, especially with the latest news of the land grabs just this week, where the BN rep had promised them that no such thing will ever happen during the last state elections.
'bin'? Dayaks using the 'bin' in their name? Shows you're really a fraud now doesn't it?
And that you really do not know about the Dayak's minds and hearts, but are just making empty noise? 
Btw. I live just 5 minutes drive from Central Padang in Kuching, so you're welcome anytime. Also, nobody in Kuching calls the Central Padang as 'Padang Merdeka'. This goes further to show what a fraud you are too. Not even familiar with the usual name that people from Kuching uses to call that field.
what ever you just mulak……no time for loser….we fight it in the coming poll…..let see…..dayak love taib or dayak love clare and s.r…..unless they are lepaking at ruai…..with the apai uran utan…..you dont even know you padang merdeka is central padang…adrian…just go and jump from tanjung lobang lah…bet you dont know where the is……you really a losers no wonder dayaks dont listen to people of you sort….dayak are smarter and not fall for people like you…kuching konon…bet you dont known where is atap pa……or jalan pinang in kuching…..please you not even from sarawak.you just some dayak wanna be….failures all the time….no wonder jabu never ask any one of you to join him cos you all are losers.frustrated losers….
Yup, confirmed you're a fraud. You still think padang merdeka and central padang are different.
ahhh.. Jalan Pinang, my grandmother used to stay nearby there. Still remember there was a house in that area there 30 years back that has a small plane in their backyard. Bet you don't even know all of these don't you?
you dont know where is jalan pinang in kuching….
ALL IN THE NAME OF GREED, CONCEIT AND HYPOCRISY! THREE OF THE GREATER EVILS OF MAN!
yes you are right.My master should have stepped down and share all the wealth with Sarawakians.I will tell my master when I next meet him. I am fed up with Taib also like you but he pays me money to counter such claims.
majority f the dayk loves taib…..its a fact and time again proven.thats why God love taib.and give him a longer live then the rest of the other people,even a great dayak worrior like Antony belon also go back to the next world.he is a true dayak worrior and sincere with his idea.former police and read law at Buckingham University.he is a great and true dayak.
Unfortunately or rather fortunately you are not!!
My advice to all readers here is DON'T READ dayak love taib's POSTINGS. He is an asshole!
Nah, he's fun to read. Any Dayak in Sarawak can see that he's just a fraud. Useful too to show the folks back at home how desperate taib's propaganda people are getting when I print out this article complete with his comments to send back to them
adrian,say what you want…..i am dayak real alter ego…not you guys…..i show you the truth and you guys just dont like the truth.
So says a joker who's not even a Dayak, or not even in Sarawak, and is desperately trying to distort the truth?
Anyways, its like you said, 'Say what you want'. Any Dayak can see through you, when you do not even know the correct form of addressing a person, or when you called the Central Padang in Kuching as Padang Merdeka when hardly anybody ever uses that name.
adrian ,i am not some dayak living in london or florida and trying to tell the other dayakm what to do…aand hasut them and if the hasut dont work you run back to london or florida and saay you are waanted by immigration and s.b wants to put you in prison….trying to be hero for the dayak and hiding in foreign land but come election try to come and hasut again…..please we have enough of this type of dayak loser hero…if you dare to fight come down to the fighting ield like a true dayak and win the election like jabu masing gramong and mawan…..dont jadi hasut tak guna oleh dayak.
The truth is you love taib and taib love you front and back and thats the truth we like which ofcourse you like more then we do cos you are taib's lover!
all the dayak are taib lover…dayak love taib and nothing is gonna change that….you all are just JELOUS and all the dayak are behing taib,then rest of you are just trying hard to get dayak sympathy..which they are not giving you all…..sorry…no to s.r and no to p.r…no to clare or peter john anak jaban or the dayak say jamban…..for his days in smk green road…suka hisap rokok in school toilet and fail his mce.
until you guys become c.m or d.c.m…nothing is gonna change.dayak love taib and will make taib c.m.
truth is dayak lve taib and you cannot do anything…..you guys cannot even get the votes needed…to try to be c.m and d.c.m…now all the dayk in sarawak is behing taib and b.n…not ss.r or p.r.everytone knows this….your hasut dont work for the dayak.
Journalism is dead. Where's the evidence of the tests that prove that plywood produced by this large manufacturer was not of certified material? I've heard from reliable sources that the reason for the removal of the FSC certification was not because of issues of the wood material itself, but merely because of problems of documentation.
Isn't pine radiata much cheaper than the expensive malaysian hardwood that only grows in large qty in Malaysia and parts of Indonesia? Why substitute a cheaper softwood for an expensive hardwood?
If shock value is what you're trying to achieve, it's written all over this blog. But accurately stated, factual information? Hard for me to believe…
Where's your evidence that the removal of the FSC certification is due to problems of documentation? Where's the evidence from your reliable sources? Hard for me to believe too…
The Dutch turned down Sarawak timber certification standards because these do not meet EU standards for use of sustainable timber. Sarawak had even earlier rejected the move to comply with the national timber certification board. So you’re left dealing with a rogue player. Documentations are pretty straightforward, the question is whether you comply with the standards or not.
hahaha…i am a standing truth in sarawak for the past 31years and i and a pain in all you s.r and p.r ass hole….get it right…you are all failures…losers until then i am winning all the way….
Yes indeed, this comment of yours is going back to the folks at home, where you called the Dayaks losers and failures
upset because i dare to tell your what is the truth the fact and the real deal,not some idea or famtasy.
many cannot accept facts of live but cannot do much but talk and talk.comes election talk and talk but its the doer who wins and the talker merely talk.
dayak love taib are doer and winning in every seats with fail.
I'm sure those at home will love your words here, foreign propagandists paid by taib calling the dayaks losers
thanks so much for your efforts in helping in convincing the Dayaks in the rural areas that they are getting ripped off 
no need to convince the dayak lah they know what to do for the past 31years…we are not desperate to make dayak votes for us…they know they will vote for us because we are there for them for 31years…you guys come only before election and after that all disappear and come again before election never even turun padang.
that why the dayak love taib because he always there for the dayak and all the great dayak leaders also with taib,like jabu masing mawan lawan gramong kayan linggi and the rest of the dayak.
Shit, the wrong one dies!!
I enjoy the comments from this retarded taib lover, please continue…
adrian,do you know where to eat the best kuah chap in miri??????or the best chiken rice in kuching,or the best laksa…or mee jawa.when to have the best kampua mee in limbang…..or sarikei….the best bak kut tea in sibu…bet you one of the dayak who stay in london who enjoy girup the kilkeny or strong bow….trying to be hero in london for the dayak.please fight a good fight here in sarawak against all of us.
why dont you stand in kapit….sure you win win…..if you so smart……
like i say you and the rest are losers…….talk is cheap….get hold of petra jaya then putra jaya…which all of you cant…..we dayak love taib still hold the upper hand…and the fat bank account….ask jabu…our smartest dayak…meek but true rentap of the 21th century…..hidup jabu hidup taib….the true hero of the dayak…..
adrian,do you know where to eat the best kuah chap in miri??????or the best chiken rice in kuching,or the best laksa…or mee jawa.when to have the best kampua mee in limbang…..or sarikei….the best bak kut tea in sibu…bet you one of the dayak who stay in london who enjoy girup the kilkeny or strong bow….trying to be hero in london for the dayak.please fight a good fight here in sarawak against all of us.
Like I said, its a simple matter for me to just print out your comments and pass it to the folks at home. Enough said
Unlike you who are not even a Dayak and not even in Sarawak
print lah banyak banyak….sidak semua nemu taib agik manah….taib paguh….jabu pintar sigik pandai….dayak not stupid to listen to your s.r report or p.r….dayak all love taib and not cheap to be bought but make their wise decision…..
May i ask you where do you want to stand and against who? And rentap was a pirate just like Hang Tuah who is not real, who are ofcourse your heroes!
Sure I do, familiar with the food places in Kuching and Miri. Don't care much for mee jawa though, not really my thing. Don't care much for beer either. My folks back home supplies me with the tuak that I prefer.
And Bak Kut 'Tea'? Only foreigners will call it Bak Kut 'Tea'
Did i get you right that you were in our ass hole? I thought its our arse hole you are after but you were happy with the donkey ass hole instead which ofcourse we are glad to offer you because we are not as merry and gay like you and taib! By the way, how many donkey holes you wants you say?
.k,to prove you point,get the dayak to vte for you guys…which you cant.they trust taib and jabu……bye bye see you after election losers.
dayak love taib…s.r is just so deperate to adopt orang utan..and apai orang utan dah nyayok..kiena hasut pukik burak….his anak anak in sarawak tak terjaga but try to be apai to orang hutan….
bini pun lari with sariff……but he beat the wife lover hand and leg…now he is apai orang utan…gila you peter…clare,you also crazy…you love the orang utan more then dayak…why dont you build home for dayak children….please lah….if you care fr sarawak work with the dayak to build not destroy the state with your propaganda and hasutan.
you also always wash you car after coming backb from your d.j work at damai terlanjang every early morning at the batu lintang quaters….you really lah peter gila.you look like monkey with your dick drooping with not malu.ask all the batu lintang guys.they can confirm.
hope too see you back in town again.but yu memang sudah gila.
Actually, the work being done here is to destroy the party who are bent on destroying and looting Sarawak, which are taib and his family and their business partners.
Fact is, you cannot even deny any of these, so you're merely resorting to crap talk
dayak love taib…s.r is just so deperate to adopt orang utan..and apai orang utan dah nyayok..kiena hasut pukik burak….his anak anak in sarawak tak terjaga but try to be apai to orang hutan….
i wrote the above when I was drunk with my master's free money to buy untaxed beer…to enjoy myself. Actually I do NOT like my Thief Minister but I am forced to.Now I am with you all,ubah lah.Let us all vote for STAR/UBF Alliance
I will tell my THIEF MINISTER to stop grabbing dayak NCR land ,take all the forest and shre Sarawak wealth with each and every community. I know my aster is a very greedy man so we dayaks must unite and voted him out in the next election. Actually he wants to repent but his pride and ego are just too big for him to swallow.So we MUST change for the better and I am sorry to say all kmind and nice words about my thief minister/master. UBAH lah kita semua,IBAH lah KITA, UBAH mieh bara ta!!
the dayak got their fair share of what they want…taib to be c.m…and taib got what he wanted….sarawak…..so who is actually compalining.