2006 News Archive


Rein in your companies, activists tell M’sia (18 December 2006)

GLC Sime Darby may take over troubled Bakun dam (17 December 2006)

Supp wants native land registered (11 December 2006)

Show Support for UK Government’s Efforts towards Sustainable Palm Oil

Azmi Refutes Allegation Oil Palm Planting Affects Wildlife (29 October 2006)

Malaysia's Rights Watchdog Urges Financial Help for Penan tribe (27 October 2006)

FEATURE - Forest-Dwellers Count Cost of Borneo's Bakun Dam (23 October 2006)

Penan take logging woes to Suhakam (13 October 2006)

Ibans held for 'threatening loggers' (11 October 2006)

Penan plight shocks Suhakam team (26 September 2006)

End blockade or face arrest, Penan told (26 September 2006)

Sarawak authorities threaten to arrest Penan blockade leaders (20 September 2006)

Forest governance in Malaysia - An NGO perspective (15 September 2006)

Rainforest dwellers successfully maintain logging road blockade in one of Malaysia’s last virgin jungle areas (14 August 2006)

Hamburg accepts Malaysian forest certificate (11 August 2006)

Demarcation exercise on all NCR land, says Suhakam chief (10 August 2006)

Fallout from Bakun relocation unresolved (7 August 2006)

Timber council ‘protects market, not people’ (7 August 2006)

Dramatic appeal by Penan headmen: "Ask the police not to use force against us" (7 July 2006)

Interhill Logging and its history in logging in Sarawak – Blockade Dismantled (7 July 2006)

Indigenous Peoples' Caucus Closing Statement (1 Jul 2006)

Malaysia Votes for Rights of Indigenous Peoples (30 June 2006)

BREAKING NEWS / Penan set up new logging road blockade in the Middle Baram (Sarawak) - Affected company is operating with 80 bulldozers (20 June 2006)

Natives to chase after millions in commission (17 June 2006)

US-Malaysia Trade Pact May Destroy Forests (16 June 2006)

TAHABAS condemns arrest and detention of 3 Iban Tuai Rumah and 2 longhouse residents by the Mukah Police (15 June 2006)

DAP questions plan to sell Bakun power to smelters (8 June 2006)

Minister’s reply to Penan appeal letter took 11 months in "high-tech" Malaysia (6 June 2006)

Vote buying whistle-blower gets death threat (4 June 2006)

Malaysian logging giant ‘harass’ activists (3 June 2006)

Angry villagers set up blockade (27 May 2006)

Poll watchdog rep gets death threat (27 May 2006)

Revamp EC, says election watchdog (25 May 2006)

Mafrel: Polls failed to meet int'l standards (22 May 2006)

No need for another report, ACA tells Mafrel (19 May 2006)

Election Watch worries over voting stations 3 days before polling (18 May 2006)

Mafrel: Cop voted twice (18 May 2006)

Minister: Palm oil victim of smear campaign (16 May 2006)

Poll watchdog finds more flaws (10 May 2006)

Tell the truth on electoral rolls, EC told (6 May 2006)

Dying tribe takes on timber giants over lost habitat (5 May 2006)

Sibu: 1 address - 94 voters (3 May 2006)

Penan urge British lumber company to stop purchasing timber from their rainforest (30 April 2006)

Jabu flayed over ignorance of NCR land crisis (29 April 2006)

TAHABAS Press Statement (28 April 2006)

Jabu told to check facts on NCR issue (27 April 2006)

Land policy of the Sarawak opposition (26 April 2006)

Poll watchdog: Focus on corruption, money politics (25 April 2006)

Logging stops, uncertainty remains (25 April 2006)

Penan of Sarawak urge British lumber company to stop purchasing timber from their rainforest (24 April 2006)

Logging 'legal', land status in dispute (18 April 2006)

New report of M'sians exploiting PNG logging (1 March 2006)

Oil palm threat to NCR land (22 February 2006)

NCR landowners held for ’stealing’ oil palm fruits (20 February 2006)

Cops told to give reason for Iban’s arrest (18 February 2006)

Hearing of Civil Suit against the Police and Government of Malaysia Adjourned to April, 2006 (8 February 2006)

Orangutans on brink of extinction: scientists (24 January 2006)

Landmark native land rights case begins on Monday (14 January 2006)