Baram Dam Blockade Celebrates 500th Day!

  MIRI – 7th March. Today, the Baram villagers, resisting the proposed Baram dam, mark the 500thdays since the blockades were launched. On the 23rd October 2013, villagers from 30 settlements in the Baram district set up blockades in Long Lama and Long Keseh to foil works on the Baram...

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Anwar Ibrahim States as Prime Minister He Will Shelve Controversial Plans for Mega-dams on the Baram River

MARUDI: Polls in Malaysia are due to be held before April 2013 when the current government’s five-year term will end.  The Malaysian opposition leader and potential future Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, has recently made a public statement very significant to Sarawak’s indigenous peoples.  During a gathering at Marudi, a town on...

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