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| Hotel <b>di kuching</b> - Come Sarawak - Come - Blogger Posted: 03 Jan 2014 07:19 PM PST  This post is also available in: Iban, Malay  1/2 million ringgit price tags on CMS built homes in Bandar Samariang The Taib family company CMS proudly boasts of its "vast land bank" in its annual reports and has started selling off chunks for tens of millions in Kuching. Commercial centres and grand housing estates are also being developed in two key areas, Bandar Samariang, where CMS has 5,200 acres, valued around half a billion ringgit, and of course on the Kuching Isthmus, where land is even more expensive. But, how did CMS acquire all this property and who has benefitted? Sarawak Report has acquired shocking information about the way Taib and his family members have profited from this land, which was forcibly taken (official term is 'alienated') from local people and state ownership. We did it to help the poor The story that the Chief Minister told from the start was that this was land that difficult and expensive to develop, but that his family company was kindly determined to provide housing for poor people. Back in 2001, he even made out that CMS was doing this supposed favour in Bandar Samariang entirely "for the people's benefit" for "not much profit", because other developers didn't want to get involved in such a loss-making venture!
Such a kind old fellow!  Chief Executive and key shareholder at the time, Taib brother Onn Mahmud Interestingly no mention has ever been made again of these poor soil conditions by CMS. This is probably, not least, because in every other country in the world, developing tropical peat soil has been banned, because of the severe environmental consequences. To gain a sense of the value of this land handed to CMS in the guise of helping the poor, consider the recent news that the company has decided to sell on a parcel of 500 acres for over RM45million to Sentoria Group to build a theme park. Suddenly, another developer has been found willing not only to take on the job of developing the land, but to pay big money for the plot. However, this time of course the money has gone to CMS, not the government or the people from whom the area was 'alienated'. At the time CMS got this land for free it was largely owned and run by Taib's brother Onn Mahmud, who shortly after passed on his shares to Taib's wife, with the remainder being largely in the hands of the Chief Minister's four children. No nepotism at all then! Sucking money out of pensions too  Robert Geneid, the Head of CMS Property Development and husband of Taib's sister Raziah Mahmud. But, of course, the Taibs didn't really want to invest their own money in this mission to assist the poor with 'quality low cost housing'. Far better to use their influence to encourage the government controlled Employee Provident Fund (EPF) to put in the money instead. After all, this fat milk cow has been used to pour vast sums of money into endless pet projects to benefit BN politicians, meaning public employees can look forward to far lower pensions, despite being forced to pay a quarter of their salaries into the obligatory savings fund controlled by the government. EPF therefore was dragged into a joint venture with CMS and the investment in the "low cost housing" in Bandar Samariang began. But, in fact, low cost housing was only ever planned to form a small part of the project from the very start. The original terms of agreement, as explained in CMS's own annual reports, made clear just 1/3 of the area was to be housing for the less well-off.  Housing for the poor? The rest of the huge site was to be developed as an ambitious commercial enterprise. CMS's 1997 Annual Report was certainly not bashful about the profit-driven nature of CMS's latest housing project or the ambitions of its new Property Development Division, headed by the new husband of Taib's sister Raziah, the Lebanese Australian, Robert Geneid. It also reveals that, thanks to Taib's ability to pull the strings, that the State Housing & Development Commission had already been tasked with buying whatever 'quality low cost housing' CMS Property produced on the site, ensuring a guaranteed profit.
So, in fact, a mere 4,000 units of the token low cost housing have been included in the first phase of the project, all promoted in the beginning in a blaze of positive publicity, before CMS moved speedily to the much more lucrative "medium cost" housing, where units are currently being sold for the very fancy prices of anything up to half a million ringgit!  Phase 1 – including 4,000 low cost housing units guaranteed to be purchased by the Housing Committee Of course, the fact that the state has ploughed in major infrastructure, in terms of roads and amenities into the area, has made the development potential of this project ever more lucrative. Yet, the Chief Minister is still justifying his handing of it all to his family in the name of charity for Kuching's poor!  Presiding over his family's vast profitable land venture. However, this mother of all land grabs from the Sarawak people is just the start of the story of how the Taib family set about enriching themselves from this project. In 'Phase 2′ of our investigation we will be looking at how individual members of the Taib inner family circle, set about using the massive housing project to develop profitable businesses for themselves, with disastrous consequences for the very poor people in whose name the Bandar Samariang land grab was executed.  "The new township boasts a myriad of vibrant features such as improved road connectivity between central and South Kuching" Borneo Post  |
| AWAS! KEDAI <b>MAKANAN</b> SEAFOOD <b>DI</b> SARAWAK TAK <b>HALAL</b>? Posted: 19 Dec 2013 05:20 PM PST -ALANG-ALANG MENIPU ORANG ISLAM MENGATAKAN MAKANAN YANG DIJUAL ITU HALAL, BAIK LU ORANG JUAL DAGING KHINZIR SEKALI KAT TOPSPOT SEAFOOD CENTRE, SEBUAH PUSAT MAKANAN YANG TERKEMUKA DI BANDARAYA KUCHING INI! CIS! KEMBANG AIR LIUR AKU! KEKEKE!!!-  Tiga buah premis makanan laut di Jalan Bukit Mata di sini, diberi amaran oleh Jabatan Agama Islam Sarawak (JAIS) kerana gagal mematuhi standard dan prosedur persijilan Halal termasuk menyalahgunakan perbahasan halal. Ketua Unit Pembangunan Halal JAIS, Asmawati @ Siti Asmah Ahmad berkata, hanya enam buah premis mempunyai sijil halal daripada 12 buah premis yang beroperasi di tempat itu. "Dua daripadanya tidak mematuhi standard dan prosedur persijilan halal, manakala satu lagi tidak mempunyai sijil halal tetapi menggunakan logo halal. "Bagi premis yang melanggar prosedur persijilan halal akan dibawa kepada Panel Pengesahan Halal Majlis Islam Sarawak (MIS)" katanya selepas mengetuai Operasi Bersepadu Halal, malam tadi. Bagaimanapun katanya, bagi perbahasan halal perlu diteliti untuk membuat penguatkuasaan halal kerana kesalahan tersebut telah dimaklumkan dalam program yang dianjurkan oleh JAIS dan Kementerian Perdagangan Dalam Negeri Koperasi dan Kepenggunaan (KPDNKK). Mengulas lanjut berkenaan hasil pemeriksaan, Asmawati berkata, pihaknya menemui bahan-bahan masakan yang meragukan kerana tidak mempunyai logo halal. "Kita menjumpai barangan yang meragukan seperti sos dan cuka yang tiada logo halal yang dapat membuktikan bahan yang digunakan sememangnya halal," katanya. Beliau menambah, bahan-bahan tersebut akan di bawa ke Jabatan Kimia untuk siasatan bagi mengesahkan sama ada ia halal atau tidak.  Namun, premis-premis berkenaan masih dibenarkan untuk beroperasi disebabkan status halal premis itu masih belum dapat diputuskan .Ditanya tentang jumlah sijil halal yang ditarik balik bagi negeri Sarawak bagi tahun 2013, beliau memberitahu bahawa daripada 10 operasi yang dijalankan, enam sijil halal ditarik balik, manakala satu lagi masih dalam siasatan. Premis yang didapati bersalah boleh dikenakan tindakan di bawah Perintah Perihal Dagangan atau Perakuan dan Penandaan Halal 2011 serta denda sebanyak RM200,000 bagi kesalahan pertama dan kedua, sebanyak RM500,000. Operasi selama dua jam tersebut turut disertai 38 pegawai daripada JAIS dan PPDNKK yang bertujuan membuat pemantauan terhadap pemegang-pemegang sijil halal di premis makanan di kawasan tersebut. -UnReportedNews™® |
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