UK Conservative Spokesman Made Video Promos for Sime Darby!
Posted Sunday, January 29th, 2012
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Bill Wiggin appears on FBC's World Business programme for CNBC. FBC organised the visit as part of their PR contract with Sime Darby.
The Conservative Party’s ex-Environment Spokesman, Bill Wiggin, agreed to play a starring role in videos promoting Sime Darby, after enjoying a luxury trip to Malaysia sponsored by the company.
The palm oil giant, headed by former Deputy PM Musa Hitam, has been exposed as a major client of FBC Media, the disgraced British public relations company, which has now been axed by the Malaysian government and Sarawak, following our exposes into corrupt practices.
FBC boasted that it had managed to ‘cultivate’ and ‘influence’ prominent people to become ‘ambassadors’ to ‘champion’ Sime Darby, which has been trying to greenwash its image after a wave of international condemnation over deforestation caused by palm oil plantations.
British MP cuddles baby orang utan in Sabah sanctuary on a tour paid for by Sime Darby. The practice is discouraged for fear of communicating diseases to the vulnerable creatures.
The company lists Bill Wiggin, who was Conservative Shadow Environment Minister until mid-2010, as one of those ambassadors from the political arena.
We have established that Wiggins was jetted out to Malaysia in 2009 and given a tour of Sime Darby’s showcase ‘eco-plantation’ on Carey Island, before being whisked to Sabah to see the Orang Utan Sanctuary there.
Tour insiders have told us that Wiggin expressed it as a major personal ambition to cuddle a baby orang utan and gratefully responded to the hospitality with a near farcical performance starring as the reporter in a ten minute promotional video praising Sime Darby for its environmental credentials.
Excerpts from the same interviews with Wiggin were then used by FBC reporter Ryan Meltzer to illegally promote Sime Darby on CNBC’s World Business show, in a package which was disguised as a genuine news report about sustainable palm oil.
No expense spared to butter up Wiggin - car and escort all laid on as he visits Sabah.
In fact, Sime Darby is the world’s largest palm oil producer and it owns vast plantations across Borneo in areas that used to be pristine jungle. Few of its plantations had been certified as being sustainable.
The company has also recently caused outrage and been forced to pay fines in Africa, where it is currently attempting to expand its operations, again at the expense of native people.
One-sided report
Wiggin seems to have willingly understood he was being used as part of a PR drive as Sime Darby attempted to get sustainability certification for its palm plantations in order to attract consumers in the UK and elsewhere. As he says:
“The purpose of my coming here was to learn about the process, which I’ve enjoyed doing, but I kind of knew what was going on. It was really to support a company that was going hell for leather to hit that sustainability target, to encourage the people who are doing the right thing, to emphasise that we in the UK want to buy their product when they have gone to the trouble of making it genuinely sustainable”!
It is perhaps no surprise then, that the report by Bill Wiggin on behalf of Sime Darby is blatantly one-sided and lacking in objectivity or balance. The palm oil giant, which has indisputably destroyed vast tracks of jungle since the 1970s is painted as a benign environmental force, while smaller operators (who can’t afford jolly PR trips for MPs) are castigated as the main environmental menace!
“One of the reasons why people are worried about palm oil is the orang utan. So, when you go into the sanctuary they tell you that it’s the big estates that are doing the right thing but it’s the little guys, the smallholders, the private individuals, who simply can’t afford to take any losses on their very small operation, where the problems lie!”
Wiggin says he was told that the big palm oil companies are not a threat to orang utans!
Wiggin gives no evidence that he has explored this issue, beyond what he has been told by Sime Darby employees.
He also fails to point out the fact that it is the vast plantations being rolled out across Borneo, thanks to massive investment and industrial scale logging, which have stripped out the jungle by the square mile and exterminated so many of his beloved orang utan.
Wiggin also fails to make any mention in his report of the greatest environmental threat to Borneo, which is corruption and bad governance by BN politicians, of which the Chairman of Sime Darby is one of the most prominent. Instead he gushes:
“We should be doing everything we can to support Sime Darby in its efforts to lead and from everything I’ve seen it’s quite clear that not only is this company leading, but Malaysia is also in a different league to some of the other palm oil producers. They’ve got proper government backing, proper government buy in, commitment, funding and all the right things are happening here!”
Singing for his supper? Many of Wiggin's constituents have expressed anger at the 'jet-setting' MP
Has Bill Wiggin stopped to consider how the destruction of Sabah and Sarawak, under the governance of the party of Sime Darby’s political boss Musa Hitam, can in fact be classed as one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters of recent years ?
Has he likewise considered that the on-going destruction of Borneo in Kalimantan is being driven, to a very large extent, by the same Malaysian palm oil giants that have destroyed Sabah and Sarawak?
These companies include, of cause, Sime Darby, which has ripped out around 300,000 hectares of Indonesian rainforest and farmland to make plantations in recent years!
Ambassador Bill Wiggin
Dressed for the part - kitted out in Sime Darby gear and logo!
Given that Bill Wiggin MP was listed as having been ‘cultivated’ to become an ‘ambassador’ or ‘third party endorser’ for Sime Darby in FBC Media’s own promotional material, he can be said to have done a very good job on behalf of his hosts.
However, the constituents who pay him a salary to represent their interests back in the UK, might have questions about the thoroughness of his recommendations that they should buy Sime Darby products.
Sounding rather like advertising, Wiggin, in his capacity as Conservative Environment Spokesman emphases the company’s “virtuous activity”:
“I want, when I am a customer in the shops in the UK, to buy palm oil from a company like Sime Darby, who have produced it in a sustainable way…. Borneo is so full of natural treasures, how are we going to protect that if we don’t buy palm oil from people who are doing the right thing like Sime Darby?”
'Cultivated' - Bill Wiggin was an FBC target who delivered.
Wiggin is not the only prominent person targeted by FBC Media on behalf of Sime Darby and its other Malaysian clients. We have already exposed US economist Jeffrey Sachs as another prime catch as far as the PR company was concerned.
Corporate leaning environmentalist - Jason Clay banks on big brands for WWF
Sachs has appeared in a number of programmes for the BBC and CNBC, which had been commissioned by FBC clients. He also featured in a major newspaper advertisement promoting Sime Darby.
Jason Clay of WWF, also listed by FBC Media as one of its ‘champions’ for Sime Darby, is a major exponent of the controversial argument that the 100 top world brands can save the environment.
It is a view that might explain the reluctance of WWF to get involved in criticising large companies when they threaten the environment and the charity’s willingness to engage in working with them!
More FBC material bragging about forging contacts with Bill Wiggin and others on behalf of Sime Darby.
However, any involvement by Clay with FBC, or the others mentioned on the list, appears so far circumstantial. The list even includes British PM David Cameron!
Cameron attended an enterprise forum involving Sime Darby and organised by Conservative MP Andrew Cumpsty, a former lobbyist, who is also listed as one of FBC’s networking contacts.
Our letter to Bill Wiggin
Remember who you need to thank. Promoting Sime Darby to school kids
Sarawak Report emailed Bill Wiggin late last year asking for comment on FBC’s claim that he had been recruited as an ‘ambassador’ for Sime Darby and questioning his uncritical claims about the company’s environmental record.
We also questioned the MP’s effusive praise of the company’s local school, which provides education for immigrant workers. Wiggin posed beneath huge signs situated around the school promoting the company at the children in classrooms and their main hall.
However, so far we have received no reply from the conservative MP!
Visiting Sime Darby showcase. But why is educating workers' children such a great gesture by this Malaysian Government controlled company?
These are the matters we posed to the UK MP in the email we sent
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“Dear Bill Wiggin,
Earlier this year we exposed the scandal surrounding FBC Media, which was later covered extensively by the Independent and also the Mail and the Guardian. You may have noted that the BBC and CNBC subsequently severed their relationship with this PR/ TV production company, which has now gone into administration in the UK. You can see extensive coverage on the matter on the blogg www.sarawakreport.org .
It may have come to your attention that, as part of this coverage, we revealed documents featuring some of the ‘ambassadors’, which FBC boasted they had managed to recruit for Malaysia’s largest palm oil company Sime Darby. Your name was listed on their power point presentations as being one of these individuals.
We have viewed some of the films that you made with FBC Media at the time of your visit to some of Sime Darby’s company locations, including their showcase Carey Island plantation. These films include your contribution to Ryan Meltzer’s report for the World Business programme, which has now been cancelled by CNBC.
In the light of the content of these films we would like to ask you if you can comment on the claim that FBC Media was making to clients that they had ‘cultivated’ and ‘influenced’ you into becoming an ‘ambassador’ for Sime Darby?
We would be grateful if you could confirm the information which we have received, which is that your trip and private jet travel to Carey Island was paid for by Sime Darby?
We also understand that your stated motivation in visiting Borneo was to ‘cuddle an Orang Utan’. Are you aware that standard good practice in such circumstances is to restrain strangers from coming into contact with baby Orang Utans, because of the danger of passing them human infections?
Could we ask what wider research you had done into the background and history of Sime Darby’s plantations before you provided such effusive and un-qualified support for the company in the film made by FBC media? Very few of their plantations have yet, of course, to receive accreditation by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil, controversial as that accreditation is in itself.
We ask this, because the devastating extent of deforestation in Borneo owing to the activities of Sime Darby and other major Malaysian Oil Palm growers, like IOI, in both East Malaysia and Kalimantan is clearly well-documented as being one of the primary causes of the destruction of habitat that is responsible for the wiping out of the Orang Utan.
You visited a school that was designed to educate the children of immigrant Indonesian workers. Sime Darby’s logo around the school is clearly featured in a somewhat totalitarian presence, yet you speak loudly in praise of the efforts of the plantation towards educating the children of its imported workers, as if it was the ultimate gesture in philanthropy.
Might we ask if you enquired as to the situation regarding the indigenous peoples of the region, who have been deprived by Sime Darby and other large companies of their native lands to make way for these plantations? Did you ask why it is that they have not received jobs or education in the same manner, or indeed why it is that so many of the Indonesian workers have been given Identity cards and voting rights in Sabah, whereas a very large proportion of the indigenous population have not?
Is it of concern to you that these immigrant workers have been told that to keep their jobs they need to vote for the governing BN party (whose former deputy Prime Minster is the current Chairman of Sime Darby)?
Did you stop to consider that, since Sime Darby is controlled by the Malaysian Government, education of local children is clearly the basic duty of either it or its owners?
You presented a very simple picture in the films that you made for FBC Media of a terrific company that is doing nothing but good in East Malaysia. Given that there is such an enormous weight of evidence to the contrary, in terms of human rights abuses against the native peoples of Borneo, whose welfare the British handed in trust to Malaysia at the time of independence in 1963; in terms of the world’s worst rate of deforestation and in terms of Sime Darby’s current activities in Africa and elsewhere, could you comment on just how much background research you did on the subject as Shadow Environment Minister before you agreed to the Sime Darby tour and the promotional video on their behalf?”
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its money,the right amount can do wonder.
no one is without a price tag,even judas can do what was needed to betray his master.
this is how it is when the money,wherever you get it from is within your control.
well my boss and the boss of the dayaks is doing what is right to safeguard the palm oil industry for malaysia.
the economy of the country is in a dire need to be protected not just the oran utan and apai of the oran utan.
he need to jaga all his anak2 biak.no trying to be a hero to the oran utan.
why not let P.J.J stand this election and see his performance,then he can talk as the apai of the oran utan.
White man,NO! White Man NO GOOD! Sime Darby is the biggest destructor of Borneo Rainforests be it Sabah or Sarawak. All BILL WIGGIN cares for is STERLING POUNDS!!/USD or RM!!
Antu Jelu…orang putih mega ulih dibeli maruah oleh UMNO. It seems that money doesn't recognize human's creed & color for low moral activities.
It sounds more like a Round Table on Greenwashing Palm Oil by a conglomerate who should know better than engage the services of a PR shop known for its unethical and dodgy practices in recruiting ambassadors for its products for its PR campaigns. Ambassadors are only too willing to do the greenwashing for their client for a handsome fee even when they know that their client's business practices may be suspect.
It's akin to the technique by 'association' widely used in advertising where celebrities endorse a commercial product. It's all about mind influence, manipulation and control. Do they seriously think that in this day and Internet age, people are so gullible?
I think the whole idea of having GLCs needs a revamp or abolishment because, by and large. GLCs have not proven to benefit the people, but instead have sucked up public funds to pay for GLCs' inefficiencies, bail-outs, legal costs and fat pay checks, bonuses, privileges for its top management but with little else to justify for their outputs, ROI, or existence. We're talking about MAS, Proton, Sime Darby, etc and not to mention the many companies set up by State Governments controlled by cronies and business associates of the government. It is as if the whole government is a business entity whose main concern is pursuing and protecting the interests of the ruling or elite class. We have a government that is rapidly losing touch of realities and the REAL purpose for its existence. GLCs can really bankrupt the whole nation!
The problem with SR is that they will only print material that is pro-SR. Sime Darby's response to the earlier "expose" – which I found on the company's web while following the story – was never carried by SR. Responsible journalism requires that.
And that pic of Wiggin's in SD grab? He'd be wearing PROTON's garb if he were in PROTON, and he would wear Nestle's garb if he were in Nestle. That's just safety gear. Pick on the right issues please!
if s.r love jungle so much then keep it in the u.k or u.s……we certainly dont want to stay in jungles and join the orang utans.
we are glad that thru S.D we are having jungle clear and development and income for the country what so bad.
clear vthe jungles and bring the dayak to the cities.
no more oran utan,who cares about oran utans,dayak deserve development at whatever cost.
taib will win again and sent enough m.ps to parliament.
sorry,dayak loves taib.dayak knows who is best after 31years.
Bill Wiggins seems like a nice bloke, actually. But his soft spot for baby orangutans and corporate-sponsored perks, it appears, has landed him on the wrong side of sound judgment. Goes to show, the bigger the stakes, the more twisted the tactics employed to win the silly game of Richest Man in the Universe..
I cant believe Bill is the shadow conservation/environment minister!!! Oil palm plantation releases nitrate from fertiliser into the waterways and that could cause a rise in cancer incidence!!! Besides, it also causes fish kill!! I cant believe this!! Sime DArby is expoanding agressively !!! They are irresponsible and edestroy our forests!!!! Bill , future genrations of people in Birne will remember you for that!!!
NOT only Bill Wiggin, but MUSA BIN HITAM, former Malaysian DPM and everyone in Sime DAMNBY.
Song, talk is cheap. If you have the evidence we would all love to roast the likes of Sime Darby yes? Making sweeping statements with no facts to back your claim is like saying you want to have a baby of your own but you've sworn to be celibate. Show us the proof and we will bring SD to court!
Ignorance may be bliss but it is no excuse!
There's a strong environmental case against the wanton destruction of our rain forests. The argument here is that the exploitation of rain forests, whether it was done in the name of "sustainable use" or not, has contributed to the enormous loss of biodiversity – flora, fauna, water, soil, etc- that has been a part of rain forests for millenia. The effects are irreversible. There is little point in denying that palm oil plantations necessitated the felling of old growth rain forests in their hundreds or even thousands of hectares have contributed much to this loss of biodiversity on a scale unimaginable. So where do you draw the line between biodiversity value and economic exploitation of our rain forests? You and I know the 'bottom-line' corporate answer. Now who is being bias or indeed nonchalant by excluding biodiversity loss or environmental costs in their corporate profit and loss accounts and their media reporting?
I hate Oil Palm Plantation, but not you, you buy new Hilux, new house, new wife…from planting OP, and you slash and burn your forest, you sell your devil fruits to Sime Sarby, and Dare you declare you not benefited even one cent from OP…A-mo, especially those from UK, just not trust worthy i thing…
Sime Darby use to be a British Comapny…
what ever your judgement,come and win the election for sarawak.try to get the votes from the dayak,we dayak will still go with taib that we know in sarawak.better taib we know then any one of you we dont know.
as for now,just some wannabes will complaint left right centre but sarawak need and desperately need to be developed.no point to complaint about our local GLC like S.D,before this it was the dutch and the british companies controlling and chopping down all the trees for plantations and all the money sent to the mother countries to developed them to be where they are now.
WE CUT OUR TREES AND PLANT OUR CROPS CANNOT. NO PLACE FOR THE ORANG UTAN,YOU GUYS MAMANG GILA,AND P.J.J NYAYOK WANTS TO BE APAI OF ORAN UTAN,PLEASE BE APAI TO ALL YOUR HUMAN KIDS IN SARAWAK,THEY NEED YOU MORE YOUR SONS DAUGHTERS AND YOU WIVES,ALL OVER SARAWAK.
AND THE S.R AND ORANG PUTIH,WHY YOU WANT US TO KEEP OUR FOREST AND NOT CULTIVATE IT,HOW TO INCREASE OUR EXPORT AND GDP.YOU GUYS MEMANG BODH OR GILA.
now we have our local GLC doing its and the money made for our local and GDP,so what is so bad.
corruption….yes its every part of this world even in U.S and E.E.C countries and all over the world :so,what you are going to do about it.can you stop human creed.blame it on human nature.
please accept humanity and we in sarawak knows best and who to trust,and now its taib and b.n.
as for the federal level,well najib is there and umno and B.N.
if you cannot get all the votes dont blame unfair political practices.
CONVINCE THE MAJORITY OF THE VOTERS TO VOTE FOR YOU.
as for now just respect the status quo,taib is c.m of sarawak and najib is p.m of malaysia.if there is a change we move accordingly.everyone can talk from outside but try delivering to the majority of the people of sarawak and malaysia.
so far small rally, here and there,but this does not show that the majority in the country wants it that way.many of the silent majority just votes and want a peaceful and stable life in the country.
if given the fact of the the case,its the p.r and opposition who keeps creating the unstable and disgruntle supporters,with complaints left right and up down,asking for heaven when they are still here on earth.be realistic,we are still on earth.
why must we keep the forest and jungle,whats wrong with this orang putih.they cut all their jungle and even came and colonised us for 3 centuries and now,telling us to not plant our crop that we need to earn for our country.tell them to go back to their kampongs and do what they are suppose to do there.
as for the dayak with them,they still ampu the orang putih.please if you think the dayak cares about what you guys want they will vote for you.(dare you to stand in this coming election,see if you win)dont just talk,stand and win with the majority of the dayak behind you.selagi 400 hundred votes win like baru bian bin burung pipit its a joke,get him to stand in betong against jabu,see if the dayak support him or sri aman or balai ringin for that matter to test his popularity.
nak jadi c.m konon,please.
my advise to all the p.r and s.r bloggers and opposition,dont condemn for condemn sake.
you like it the other way but what do the rest of the dayak wants…ask them and allow them to speak with their votes.
as for this show with the oran utan,they are just good for pets if you want it keep it for youself.we are not interested.
got no time for your stupidity and emotion,sarawak and the dayak knows best and vote accordingly,so its taib and najib better then annuar and baru or lim kit siang and kapal sing(let the kapal belagu).all tin kosong.
dont trust them and never will,as for shaking steven or aborium or brian pipit and the rest fo the cowards.people like you are just losers,failures and wanabe.come out in the open and win the race.why hiding but buat bising sini sana.
Ask jabu to stand in Bakalalan see if the Lun Bawangs will support him! We also can ask you to come out in the open if you think you are not a coward,a loser,failure and wanabe(wanabe?..i take it as a japanese name). Aren't you yourself hiding behind your computer screen screaming and being very emotionally worked up. I can see tears running down your rosey cheeks.
You talk about GDP like you are an expert or maybe you are the economic advisor to the Gov't? No wonder there are so many corruption going on and so many lands being stolen from the people. We are not against economic acvtivities which benefits all sarawakians but we are against corrupted economic activities which benefits only you and your master taib while te rest of us live on RM10 a day!
So why do you think we are as bising as you? Where is the politic of development from taib? Stealing land is not development,cutting timbers and pocketing the proceed is not development, planting oilpalm to fill only your own pocket on stolen land is not development,fllooding land belonging to the poor is not development, it is call development for myself,my family and whoever supports me. Don't you think that is politic of self preservation.
My "friend" my small plot of padi field also contribute to our GDP and so are the rest like me who do not like what taib is doing…distinguished my rights to the land in the name of politics of self preservation.
berkalalan,who wants to stand there…….only burung pipit……why not…..kapit or song or sri aman…..please just a 400votes majority wants to shout…please…grow up…the winner takes all…..
what ever your judgement,come and win the election for sarawak.try to get the votes from the dayak,we dayak will still go with taib that we know in sarawak.better taib we know then any one of you we dont know.
Mr. dayak love taib, I love you…
REASON WHY JKR S'WAK ALWAYS NOT ENOUGH FUNDS
How JKR overpaid ShinYang to help Taib looting
Let me summarise, it means what JKR paid for bridge is enough to build hotel and bridge and shin yang get to own 50% of hotel with CMSB and what balance paid out by CMSB is right into Taib Mahmud pocket through the contractor account
So shin yang becomes the vehicle to channel out state fund to build bridge at 2 to 3 times cost, use to pay for building the hotel and 100 + millions of CMSB fund channel out of CMSB through the contractor doing the hotel into Taib Mahmud pocket
Wonder no more why this Manyin keep telling us BN not enough funds for roads well most of it gone to this crooks lah
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Kuching Isthmus Debolotment – Public Funds Wasted & Looted RM Half Billion Ringgit So Far!
1) Shin Yang's RM213 Million Bridge Project Part-Payment Via Contra Deal For Hotel JV Ownership!
Looks like Taib will not have to pay Shin Yang in full but rather 'contra' payment it with the RM380 Million hotel project shares. To do that simply tell JKR to approve the super-inflated tender price for the new Isthmus Bridge that merely saves some 4 minutes drive otherwise 4KM distance if using normal route!
RM213 Million Bridge To Save 4 Minutes Drive?
Yes all of you BN voter fools, this is how BN justified and wasted wang rakyat of RM213 Million: a bridge just to save a 4 minutes or 4 KM drive to the same location if alternately using the existing causeway road/ Jalan Keruing after Bintawa industrial area.
To give you an idea just how wasteful it is, the distance if using the causeway (towards Jalan Keruing / Demak Laut upwards) then taking U-turn at the traffic light near BCCK (Borneo Convention Centre Kuching) and arrive at the junction of the construction site of new Sarawak Energy headquarters tower (the other end of the bridge at Kuching Port/ Sim Kheng Hong Port) is aprroximately 4 KM.
Perhaps 4 KM is too far for Taib to be Rolls-Royce-chaffeured to his beloved pet project Isthmus City so he ordered his goon Shin Yang group/ Woodville Construction to get this bridge done!
RM213 Million divided by 4 KM = RM53 Million Per KM.
That's how BN justified the wastage out of public fund to reach the private greed. Even more amazing there's at least another similar size bridge to be built to connect the Bintawa-end/ near Bintawa Marine Police Complex to the Isthmus. How much more public funds looted to connect this private megalomaniac?
And the greed didn't end there.
2) RM232 Sarawak energy Tower at RM11 Million Ali Baba Cost!
The new Sarawak Energy Berhad/SEB Tower (of which the RM213 Million bridge is purpose-built to connect it!) itself also yet another hallmark of how Sarawak people's money being bleed milked out.
While Petra Perdana Construction recorded a RM221 Million agreed contract sum from CMS Land, it is clearly RM11 Million easy money Ali Baba looted when originally Sarawak Energy Berhad/SEB awarded the same tower for RM232 Million!
These two mega total wastage alone cost Sarawak people's money nearly HALF A BILLION RINGGIT and looks like the entire Isthmus City project probably would bankrupt our state coffers with even more biblical-scale wastage in the future!
More Cronies and Crooks joins the Isthmus Debolotment looting soon with KTS Group is the latest to reinvest their money laundering with UCSI Hotel and Hospitality College right infront of BCCK!
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A. Maklumat Syarikat: :
Company Name : WOODVILLE CONSTRUCTION SDN BHD
Address : LOT 515, JALAN DATUK EDWARD JELI PIASAU INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
Postcode 98100
Town : LUTONG
State: SARAWAK
Telephone: 085-656699
Fax : 085-653999
D. Maklumat Ahli Lembaga Pengarah:
Bil Nama Warganegara Jawatan
1.DATUK LING CHIONG HO MALAYSIA PENGARAH URUSAN
2.KONG LEE CHUANG MALAYSIA PENGARAH URUSAN
3.LING CHIONG PIN MALAYSIA PENGARAH URUSAN
4.LING CHIONG SIEN MALAYSIA PENGARAH URUSAN
5.LING CHIONG SIGN MALAYSIA PENGARAH URUSAN
G.Modal Berbayar / Modal Terkumpul :
a.Modal Dibenarkan (RM):
b.Modal Berbayar / Modal Terkumpul (RM): 100,000.00
H.Maklumat Projek:
Bil Tajuk Tarikh Anugerah Nilai (RM) Klien
2. Design & Build Negotiated Contract Prop. Sg. Sarawak Bridge At Isthmus/Kuching Port (Tan Sri Sim Kheng Hong Port), Approach Road & Connecting Road At Isthmus 12-08-2009 RM 213,000,000.00 JABATAN KERJA RAYA SARAWAK
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Cahya Mata unit in RM380mil JV to build hotel, apartments
By M. HAFIDZ MAHPAR, The Star, 2/12/2010
PETALING JAYA: Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd, through 51%-owned subsidiary CMS Land Sdn Bhd, has signed a joint-venture agreement to build, own and manage a four-star hotel and service apartments at the Kuching Isthmus in Sarawak.
It told Bursa Malaysia yesterday that it had signed the agreement with Premier Cottage Sdn Bhd (PCSB), Boulevard Jaya Corp Sdn Bhd (BJSB), Hikmat Majusama Sdn Bhd (HMSB) and Isthmus Developments Sdn Bhd (IDSB).
The building, comprising 381 hotel rooms and 96 service apartments, will cost about RM380mil, including outfitting, furniture, fittings and equipment, but excluding financing costs and contingencies.
.. to be continued
Part 2
CMS Land will subscribe for 300,000 new RM1 shares in IDSB, while PCSB, BJSB and HSMB will subscribe for 5.05 million new shares, 1.96 million new shares and 1.96 million shares respectively.
Building works for the hotel is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2011 and completed by December 2013.
CMS Land is the land owner and property developer for the Kuching Isthmus development project, which is intended to become Kuching's new central business district.
It is a proposed mixed commercial and residential development project that includes convention and exhibition centre, transport hub, tertiary educational institutions, marina and other housing/commercial developments.
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Sarawak Energy Berhad Awards MYR 232.0 Million Contract to CMS Land Sdn. Bhd.
Business Week, 04/15/2009
Sarawak Energy Berhad has awarded the contract for the development and construction of the Proposed Headquarters Building for SEB at Isthmus, Kuching to CMS Land Sdn. Bhd. for a contract sum of MYR 232.0 million.
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A. Maklumat Syarikat: :
Company Name : PUTRA PERDANA CONSTRUCTION SDN. BHD.
Address : 3RD FLOOR, NO. 5 JALAN P16 PRECINT 16
Postcode 62150
Town : PUTRAJAYA
State: WILAYAH PERSEKUTUAN
Telephone: 03-88868888
Fax : 03-88868886
D. Maklumat Ahli Lembaga Pengarah:
Bil Nama Warganegara Jawatan
1.CHAN KOK LEONG MALAYSIA PENGARAH
2.DATO' THAM KA HON MALAYSIA PENGARAH
3.KAMIL AHMAD MERICAN MALAYSIA PENGARAH
4.KRISHNAN A/L C K MENON MALAYSIA PENGARAH
5.NIK MOHD NASIR BIN NIK SALLEH MALAYSIA PENGARAH
6.ONG AUN KUNG MALAYSIA PENGARAH
7.WIE HOCK KIONG MALAYSIA PENGARAH
G.Modal Berbayar / Modal Terkumpul :
a.Modal Dibenarkan (RM):
b.Modal Berbayar / Modal Terkumpul (RM): 20,000,000.00
H.Maklumat Projek:
Bil Tajuk Tarikh Anugerah Nilai (RM) Klien
10. Proposed Design, Development, Construction, Completion And Transfer Of Headquarters Building For Sarawak Energy Berhad ("SEB") At Isthmus, Lot 2833 (Part of Parent Lot 2342) Block 7,Muara Tebas L.D 15-04-2009 RM 221,000,000.00 CMS LAND SDN BHD
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No budget, no dual carriageway
Manyin says due to lack of funds government’s other option is to build overtaking lanes
by Georgette Tan, The Borneo Post Thursday 23 December 2010
SERIAN: The government is keen to develop a dual carriage way between Kuching and Miri to provide easy access between the two cities.
In saying that this was ideal as it would cut down driving time from 12 hours to seven, Infrastructure Development and Communication Minister Dato Sri Micheal Manyin Jawong, however, said the government did not have sufficient funds to carry out the project.
“Sarawak is the biggest state in Malaysia and our population is only 2.5 million and very scattered. We cannot follow what is being implemented in Peninsular Malaysia,” he told reporters after officiating at the Christmas Road Safety Campaign today.
At the same time, Manyin also said that a lot of villages and longhouses were still not accessible by road, adding that the ministry’s target and priority was to make all these places accessible by 2020.
“Roads are very costly. We cannot just concentrate on the trunk road or the towns. We also want to provide connectivity to all those villages and settlements,” said Manyin, pointing out that this was a tall order for the ministry.
“Public Works Department (JKR) capacity is there but the money is not,” he said.
Nevertheless, he acknowledged that the federal government had given the state a substantial amount of money for roads, including those within the SCORE area.
“Our ministry has submitted a request for RM100 million under the Tenth Malaysia Plan to build overtaking lanes.
“If we get that, I believe accidents on the trunk roads will be very much reduced,” Manyin said, adding that Sarawak does not have enough volume for toll plazas.
On the road safety campaign, Manyin advised motorcyclists to give way to larger vehicles even if they have right of way as they usually bear the brunt of any accident with a car or lorry.
“You may be right, but you may also be dead right,” he said, revealing that around 65 per cent of traffic accidents were caused by human factors.
“As minister, I appeal to people not to drink and drive. You must know your limit,” Manyin said, adding that Gawai was usually accompanied by a drastic increase in the number of accidents.
According to Malaysia Road Safety Department (JKJR), the number of accidents increased from 15,157 during Jan-Nov last year to 15,759 this Jan-Nov.
Meanwhile, accident-related deaths went up from 310 to 330 in the same period.
Earlier on Manyin handed out brochures and goodies to motorists in Serian, and new helmets to motorcyclists as part of JKJR’s regular road safety campaigns.
Also present was JKJR Sarawak deputy director Redzuan Hamdan.
So so so silly,Why have to apply when you can just add another 25% to make it 30% OIL and GAS ROYALTIES and Sarawak can do wonders instead of begging .The money is rightfully Sarawakians and why beg from FEDERAL,they should beg from us. That is just plain stupidity..
Sudah lah,..enough is enough.. UBAH LAH!! Change for the better..Our state is our responsibility.
Shafie ‘caught’ with ‘overpriced’ projects
Projects awarded by Umno vice-president and federal minister Shafie Apdal cost '15 times higher' than their actual quote.
FMT, November 14, 2011
KOTA KINABALU: The opposition in Sabah armed with “evidence” is gunning for Rural and Regional Development Minister Shafie Apdal following shocking disclosures of irregularities in rural development projects awarded through his ministry in Sabah.
Some 209 development projects have been identified for Sabah between 2011 and 2012 and the bulk of these projects involved the rural water and power supply projects covering various parts of Sabah, from Pulau Banggi to Sipitang.
>Of the 209 rural development projects awarded, only 129 projects had been announced and of this, 49 totalling RM1,276.60 million were “ridiculously overpriced”.
Revealing the massive overpriced payouts, Kota Kinabalu MP Dr Hiew King Cheu said some projects were awarded at 15 times or 1,500% higher than the normal price.
He demanded that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) step in immediately and investigate these claims.
He said most of these projects are either invited tenders, negotiated tenders, or directly awarded.
“None of these projects was properly done through the Tender Board.
“Most of the companies awarded the projects are RM2 companies and some of the contractors involved are found to be closely linked to certain senior BN-Umno politicians from Sabah,” Hiew told a news conference here yesterday.
Evidence in hand
Hiew said that a careful study of the detailed tender documents provided by an insider had indicated that the lowest tender bid did not get the job.
In most cases, someone with a higher tender price of almost 1,500% than the lowest bidder gets the job.
He cited the “rural power supply project for the connection of power grid No.1” (for 2011–2012) which was awarded at a price of RM41,736,809.77.
>The lowest tender price, he added, was only RM7,775,000.00 – a difference of RM33,961,809.77.
He also cited the case of the “hybrid solar power system” for the Semporna islands.
He said the project was awarded at a tender price of RM95,282,322.00, which many deemed to be too high.
“With that amount of money, I can always get someone to build a power station,” Hiew said.
He added that a similar project was also awarded to another company for a whopping sum of RM81,475,281.42 to supply power to Pulau Banggi, off Kudat.
Hiew also drew attention to the infamous Pulau Gaya, which he said was in dire need of clean water supply.
“They need clean water more than electricity. In fact, they already have a power station there.
“But they’ve awarded a contract for the installation of a 4-km-long undersea power cable to generate power supply for Pulau Gaya at the cost of RM42 million.
“A random survey conducted with several qualified local contractors revealed that this can be done at just RM5 million,” he said, adding that the government would need another RM100 milion if a water supply project was to be implemented.
To substantiate his claims, Hiew also distributed copies of the detailed tender documents containing the list of projects and names of contractors to reporters.
He said that he received copies of the documents of the Sabah projects from Beruas MP (Perak) Ngeh Koo Han.
Hiew noted that Ngeh had questioned Shafie about the contracts, during the Budget 2012 debate session in the Parliament last week, but the minister refused to answer him.
as if people will care and stiop voting for what they want to reign in malaysia and sarawak.
s.r you killing our economy……who give you the right……its our GDP…..save you oran utan and forest else where….we dont need you guyslah…..
I just wonder if you know how an orang utan looks like and the forest the orang utan lives in for that matter? well,Orang utan looks exactly like you with big long hairy fingers, very human like and cute too! Minds you,the orang utan and the forest brings in big money from tourism and thats one of the reason why we have our ministry of tourism.. to take care of such attraction which we used to have in abundants. I do believe the orang utan,as dirty and ugly as they are also contribute to our GDP! Don't you think so Taib's Lover?
we dayak loves taib,its a mojority decision…….we want it this way…..bongoklah you……you so setaku….sasau….ngok….will you blame the majority of dayaks and sarawak voters…….why you fuss so much…..then win the election then and be c.m of sarawak….stop blaming taib and the dayak……get the dayak to vote you guys….if you so right….surely the dayak will vote you as c.m…..if not what can the dayak do…..if they are so cheap then buy their votes and win the election,if we are so stupid then surely its so easy to convince us to vote you guys.
I just can't stop loving you…
WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF WHITE CROOKS IN SARAWAK..GERMAN SHEPHERDS IN 1ST SILICON, VIKING IN SESCO,BRITISH BULLDOG AT CMS AND MANY MORE..YET BAKUN DAM IS CRACKING BUT JUST A MINOR ONE AND NOT DANGEROUS AS THEY ALL SAY..YOU PAY PEANUTS YOU GET MONKEY!!DO WE NEED THESE WHITE MEN??JUST LIKE A COWBOY MOVIE..RED INDIANS SAY 'WHITE MEN NO GOOD'..HA HA HA
if you hate monkey why keep the forest for who…for dayak to swing on the trees…..or dayak become monkeys and orang utan….you all sudah gila…..
if you love orang utan so much then go to sumatra or sabah….or kalimantan…why disturb us in sarawak…..we dayk still do what we want……
i am watching….and have concluded the dayak love taib…..and…taib have charm and bomoh them to love him….only way to stop this charm is to pray to the living God that the truth shall prevail…..the truth thst taib is a plunderer…and dayak should stop loving this plunderer of the dayak…….dayak stop loving taib…..