Lahat Datu Sabah - Invaders from Philippine

The head line on March 6 2013 carried the news about the actions against the invaders. How long they had been in the countries or whether was connected to the hot issues a couple of months earlier, the Project IC was everyones' guess.


4 Mar 2013 - Evacuation of the civilian

5 Mar 2013 - 7 am Bombing of Kampung Tanduo

5 Mar 2013 - 8 am Ground Assault.

After 23 days if stand off, the airstrike followed by heavy bombardment, would dislodge the Sulus. When the bombardment stopped, the elite force move-in. By morning, half of the village was secured.

According to a report, the number of invaders were about 100 to 200.

The history that led to invasion goes back a few hundred years, when Sabah was under the Sultanate of Sulus. They were not colonised by the Spanish like those in Luzon, and Sabah was leased to the British for a meagre sum of RM5000 per month.

It would be odd for Philippine to support that claim by the invaders as it amount to accepting their right, not only to Sabah, but to the Southern part of Philippine like Mendanao and Pahlawan.

Malaysian Richest List

The Star published the 13 richest in Malaysia . This is taken from Forbes Magazines. The number of billionaires is up from 11 to 14.

No 1 - Robert Kuok - He retained the title as the richest man in Malaysia. His assets quoted to be USD12.5bil

No 2 - Ananda Krishnan - USD11.7bil, up from 9.9 last year. He is the tele-communication giants.

No 3 - Lim Kok Thay - USD6.5bil,

Forbes gives a more detailed list of the richest 40 and list include the son of former PM,






The original list from Forbes...
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2012/84/malaysia-billionaires-12_rank.html

Lynas The Rare Earth Approved

The controversial Lynas rare earth plant gets the approval from PSC and the parliament. The temporary license to operate to be given but the Parliament Select Committee made 31 recommendation to ensure its safe and transparent operation.

The Star 20 Jun 2012

 The committee was satisfied that the project complied to the strict international rules. However to ensure public safety, the PSC recommended the  following suggestions among the 31 recommendations made:
- a monitoring agency to be created consisting of related agencies, non-government bodies and experts.
- The exposure of the staff to be limited to the average of 2 millisiaverts (mSv) per year and the public to 0.002 mSv per annum.
- audits to be carried out every 6 months to be conducted by by a third party registered with DOE.
- DOE and the Atomic authority to set up site office at the Gebeng plant to monitor the activities.

Malaysia had unfavorable experiences dealing with the the negative effects of the rear earth at the site in Bukit Merah.