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Sarawak rejects Putrajaya’s special grant KUCHING: The state government cannot accept Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng’s announcement on a special grant to Sarawak because the review was done without consulting the state. Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister’s Department (Law, State-Federal Relations and Project Monitoring) Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali said a draft guideline of […]

Kudos to state govt for suing Petronas

KUCHING: The state government had been lauded for taking legal action against Petronas to recover the unpaid state sales tax on petroleum products. “It is a very good step indeed that the government is suing the corporation,” said a lawyer, Shankar Ram Asnani. “If it doesn’t come to terms with our state law because it […]

The constitutional picture

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.  – Patrick Henry, lawyer and a founder of the United States of America Come in optimistically, but don’t leave misty optically. That was the sublime message of the 1872 Licensing Act […]