According to his own PR, delegates to an Asian Green Energy Conference have been hugely impressed by Abang Jo’s ‘visionary’ plans for creating ‘Green Hydrogen’ and achieving ‘Carbon Capture’. People who understand science and who do not have a vested…

Whilst GPS ministers continue to tout hydropower and dam building as the fix-all economic solution for Sarawak, the rest of the world is recognising it for the outdated and destructive technology that it already is. Early mega-dams were built over…

The verdict of the Swiss Court had seemed inevitable to most of those who have followed the 1MDB scandal over the past years and had listened to the solid evidence of the prosecutors on the case. The defence was not…

Let’s take a look at how Sarawak’s ‘green policies’ are working out in practice compared to what is being boasted of in public pronouncements. In Baram, one of the few relatively unspoiled remaining areas of the state, native communities have…

This week yet another story of rural conflict was brought to the attention of Radio Free Sarawak. It is the sort of incident one rarely hears much reported in the pages of ‘mainstream’ media owned by local timber barons. On…

Millions of hectares of Sarawak’s native territories have been handed to the logging and plantation billionaires who sucked the wealth of the land and rolled out single crops of oil palm and acacia, home to rats and snakes. Abang Johari…

At the end of last week Sarawak Report sent an emailed request for comment to the information desk of the major public company Puncak Niaga Bhd in Kuala Lumpur. The title of the request is self-explanatory: “Demonstrations by Sacked Penan…

Among the present spate of disputed incursions into native land areas currently underway in Sarawak, perhaps the most brazen is happening in Belaga, thanks to two companies identified as logging in areas previously already abandoned by Pusaka KTS in the face…

The damage and suffering caused by log jams in Sarawak rivers is monumental and yet totally preventable because they are caused by up river logging that has not been properly managed or safely cleared. No one is unaware of the…