Galeri: Earth-breaking Ceremony for Sungai Tengah People’s Affordable Housing Programme (PPR)

April 12, 2015

Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan (third left) presenting a memento to Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg after the earth-breaking of the housing project, witnessed by (from left) Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman, Dato Sri Fadillah and Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah.

PBB leaders pour cold water on united government with Pakatan Rakyat

March 17, 2015

SIBU: Assistant Tourism Minister Datuk Talib Zulpilip said all comments by state DAP chairman Chong Chieng Jen, especially on BN, must be taken with a pinch of salt.

Talib said to be fair, Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem had started on the right footing, and his emphasis on integrity should be lauded and supported.

“Hopefully the opposition, Chong included, should recognise this and support it.

“We have not heard much about opposition support for an integrity based government. But if DAP is seriously sincere, they should give Adenan a chance with their genuine and full support.

“Unity government is good in concept if everyone is sincere. Is DAP sincere? The statements and actions by DAP indicate desire for domination rather than power sharing, a basis for a genuine united government.

“In DAP controlled Penang, PAS and PKR are sidelined. In Selangor the PR is having a lot of problems. So talk by DAP about unity government is just talk,” he said.

Talib was reacting to Chong’s statement on Sunday that Sarawakians could give Adenan a chance, but as Malaysians, they could not afford to give BN another five years to ruin the country as BN had been given 51 years already.

BN leaders: DAP doesn’t fit in with BN’s agenda to protect S’wak’s rights

March 2, 2015

SIBU: State Barisan Nasional (BN) parties are locally incorporated and their policies are formulated to protect Sarawakians’ rights, which do not fit in with peninsula-based DAP.

According to several state BN leaders, BN’s priority is to serve the people and the coalition does not trust DAP, regardless of the opposition’s agendas.

They were responding to state DAP chairman Chong Chieng Jen’s statement that his party would never join BN.

DAP nadai netapka berapa sitak deka dipasuk parti nya maya PRN tu

February 25, 2015

SIBU: Parti Tindakan Demokratik (DAP) nadai netapka berapa sitak DUN ke deka dipasuk dalam pengawa bepilih kunsil nengeri (PRN) ti deka datai tang pengundi ngembuan hak nentuka ni bagi parti ke ulih mai ubah ngagai sida.

Chairman DAP Nengeri Sarawak, Chong Chieng Jen madah, parti nya deka bediri pemadu kurang dalam 30 kerusi DUN dalam PRN ti deka datai tu.

Ku iya, DAP deka nulung ngelempungka tanggungpengawa ke ditapi Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) lebih agi nayup PKR ba sekeda menua pesisir nyengkaum sekeda sitak di kandang mengeri.

PBB leaders unfazed by the number of seats DAP wants to contest in the coming election

February 23, 2015

SIBU: Democratic Action Party (DAP) can go for any number of seats to contest this coming state election but voters will have the final say on which party to vote, said state BN secretary-general Datuk Dr Stephen Rundi.

Dr Rundi, who is also Assistant Minister of Public Utilities (Electricity and Telecommunications), was asked for his view on the announcement by DAP chairman Chong Chieng Jen that DAP would contest in at least 30 seats in the coming state polls.

Chong had said the move was to reduce the burden of its Pakatan Rakyat ally, PKR, in contesting in some rural and semi-urban areas. He also said the 30 seats did not include the proposed new seats.

BN enda nangika PAS: Karim

February 4, 2015

SIBU: Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) deka ngelebu diri ngirai chalun sida bediri ba enam iti penuduk Kunsil Nengeri (ADUN) maya pengawa pengawa bepilih nengeri ti deka datai.

Komiti Besai Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah madah, PAS deka nangkup Barisan Nasional ke lebih agi PBB ngerebut penuduk nya.

“Sida tau nguji ngapa lalu ngarap sida nempa pemujur maya nya ila,” pia ku iya madah ngagai pengarang berita, kemari.

Ku iya, kebuah iya andal nyebut munyi nya laban PAS parti ti datai ari Semenanjung Malaysia lalu rayat nengeri Sarawak ngembuan kaul ke manah entara pupu raban bansa ngelama tu.

Abdul Karim ti mega Menteri Pemansang Raban Nembiak enggau ADUN Asajaya madah, PAS ulih bediri ba dini-dini penuduk maya pengawa bepilih ila.

Ku iya, PAS udah ngaga pansik lalu bisi chalun ti engkeman bediri ba enam iti penuduk nya taja bedau berandau enggau komponen parti dalam Pakatan Rayat ke bukai.

Kilah ensana, PAS madahka diri bisi ati deka bediri ba DUN Beting Maro, Sebuyau, Sadong Jaya, Muara Tuang, Tanjung Datu enggau Kuala Rejang (Belawai).

Bantuan kepada Allahyarham Bujang Taha akan dibincang, kata Karim

October 14, 2014

KUCHING: Menteri Muda Belia, Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah akan berbincang dengan kabinet negeri mengenai bentuk bantuan yang bakal diberikan kepada keluarga pemenang gelaran Mr Asia sebanyak empat kali Allahyarham Bujang Taha.

Beliau secara peribadi melihat sukar untuk mencari individu seperti Allahyarham Bujang Taha yang sangat berjaya dalam arena bina badan sehingga mengharumkan nama Sarawak dan Malaysia.

“Semua sedia maklum, Allahyarham (Bujang Taha) merupakan seorang yang sangat berjaya dalam bidangnya dan sukar untuk mencari penggantinya.

“Secara peribadi dan bagi pihak kerajaan negeri… saya merakamkan ucapan tahziah buat keluarga Allahyarham.

“Kabinet negeri akan berbincang bentuk bantuan yang akan diberikan kepada keluarga Allahyarham,” katanya kepada pemberita ditemui di rumah Allahyarham Bujang Taha di Kampung Tanjong, di sini pagi semalam.

Allahyarham Bujang Taha menghembuskan nafas terakhir di Hospital Umum Sarawak (HUS) pada jam 10.47 malam kelmarin akibat komplikasi kanser mulut, paru-paru dan asma.

Abdul Karim menyifatkan pemergian Allahyarham Bujang Taha sebagai kehilangan besar buat Sarawak dan Malaysia.

‘A great loss to sports, the state and country’ - Karim

October 14, 2014

KUCHING: The state cabinet will discuss the type of aid and contributions to be given to the family of the late body-building great Bujang Taha.

Malek presenting a RM11,000 cheque to the late Bujang’s wife Norsanah Harun. 

Assistant Youth Development Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said the state will not forget the contribution of state athletes such as Bujang who had put Sarawak and Malaysia on the global sporting map.

“Personally, it is difficult to find an individual like the late Bujang who had excelled tremendously in the bodybuilding arena to the extent that he had done the state and country proud. His success in his field, it’s difficult to find a replacement.

“On behalf of myself and the state government, we extend our condolences to his family. The state cabinet will discuss on the types of aid to be given to the family,” Karim who is also Assistant Housing Minister told reporters when met at the late bodybuilder’s residence at Kampung Tanjong, Petra Jaya near here yesterday.

Those who paid their last respects included Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister’s Department (Islamic Affairs) Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman, Assistant Tourism Minister Datuk Talib Zulpilip, Sarawak Bodybuilding Association president Dato Wee Hong Seng and national bodybuilder George Awi William.

Meanwhile, Daud mentioned that Bujang was the type of individual who would not ask for anything.

“It saddened me because he never asked for anything from the state government including allowance. I was thinking of requesting from the chief minister for Bujang to be given a monthly allowance and I hope that the state government could consider this,” he continued.

Al-Fatihah untuk Allahyarham Bujang Taha

October 13, 2014

10.12am: Asajaya assemblyman and Assistant Minister of Housing Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah and Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister’s Office (Islamic Affairs) Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman arrive to pay their respects

Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman and Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah paying their respects to the late Bujang.

Galeri: Anjung Masjid portal

October 24, 2013

GOING CYBER … Chief Minister Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud (third right) launching the ‘Anjung Masjid’ portal, witnessed by (from left) Datuk Haji Daud Abdul Rahman, Datuk Amar Abang Haji Johari Tun Openg, Datuk Haji Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah and Datu Putit Matzen (right). PHOTO: RAMIDI SUBARI

Karim cabar DAP buka cawangan di Asajaya

August 14, 2013

“Kalau DAP nak buka cawangan di Tupong, bukalah. Mereka juga dipersilakan untuk membuka cawangan di Samarahan atau Asajaya." -Tuan Haji Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah

Pembukaan Pusat Khidmat di Tupong sebahagian amalan demokrasi

KUCHING: Barisan Nasional (BN) Negeri dan Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) tidak risau dengan pembukaan cawangan terbaharu Parti Tindakan Demokratik (DAP) Sarawak di kawasan Tupong.

Menurut Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Tupong Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman, pembukaan Pusat Khidmat DAP langsung tidak memberi kesan terhadap sokongan penduduk di situ kepada BN dan PBB.

“Ia merupakan hak DAP untuk membuka cawangannya di Tupong sebagai amalan demokrasi di negara ini.

“Saya cuma berharap proses Pilihan Raya Negeri (PRN) yang akan datang berjalan dengan lancar dan DAP akan menerima keputusan dengan hati yang terbuka sekiranya mereka kalah nanti,” ujar Daud.

Beliau berkata demikian setelah Pengerusi DAP Sarawak Chong Chieng Jen mengumumkan pembukaan Pusat Khidmat parti pembangkang tersebut di kawasan DUN Tupong dalam usaha untuk mendekati penduduk kaum bukan Cina di situ, kelmarin.

Chong berkata, usaha tersebut merupakan antara perancangan parti DAP untuk menawan kawasan Melayu menjelang Pilihan Raya Negeri (PRN) yang akan datang.

Sementara itu, Daud berkata, keputusan DAP meletakkan wakil Bumiputera untuk mengendalikan Pusat Khidmat mereka di situ merupakan strategi pihak pembangkang untuk menarik minat para pengundi di kawasan Tupong yang majoritinya berbangsa Melayu menjelang PRN nanti.

Galeri: Majlis Pelancaran Ulangtahun ke-45 SMK Pesantren Abdul Taib Mahmud

June 16, 2013

45TH ANNIVERSARY… Chief Minister Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud (seventh left) and his wife Puan
Sri Ragad Kurdi Taib (eighth left) are joined by Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman (fourth left), Aidel Lariwoo
(sixth left), Hajah Nancy Shukri (seventh right) and others in cutting the anniversary cake, as Haji Julaihi Narawi
(left), Haji Karim Rahman Hamzah (second left), Datuk Wan Wahab Wan Sanusi (right) and others look on.
PHOTO: RAMIDI SUBARI

Asajaya first to disburse BR1M aid

January 22, 2012

KUCHING: Asajaya became the first in the state to disburse RM270,000 in BR1M aid to 540 recipients at the Asajaya Sports Complex yesterday.

Maybank Berhad was on hand to process the vouchers and give out the RM500 cash to the first and second phase recipients.

“The third phase will receive their money after the Chinese New Year,” said Asajaya state assemblyman Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah when handing out the vouchers to the recipients.

The remaining 5,101 people would receive their money in due time.

“We will stagger the disbursement of the money as it involves a huge amount of recipients,” said Abdul Karim, who is also Assistant Minister of Youth Development and Housing.

According to him, the majority of the recipients were fishermen and farmers.

“For the BR1M, the government has allocated RM3 billion to be disbursed to the rakyat who need a financial boost,” he said.

Substantiate allegation of traitors in PBB, PBB Youth wing told

June 27, 2011

“As far as I know, there are no traitors.” Tuan Haji Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah

KUCHING: The Youth wing of Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) should come up with evidence to support their claims of the presence of traitors within the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.

The call was made on Saturday by PBB vice president Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman, who is also Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister’s Department and Tupong assemblyman.

“We don’t want baseless accusations that can undermine the party,” he said when responding to a call made by an exco member Radin Kadri Radin Budiman on all component parties of the state Barisan Nasional to be wary of the presence of traitors in their midst.

Radin made the call last Friday when commenting on a speech made by Tarat assemblyman Roland Sagah in the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) last Thursday that Sarawak would lose its autonomy if the traitors’ secret agenda were realised.

Radin even urged PBB to carry out its internal investigation to ensure that the party does not have any dubious character as its member.

“Whether these persons who collaborate with foreigners are from the opposition or PBB, the leadership has to investigate because only after they are identified can we know whether they are PBB leaders or corporate personalities, and know the full extent of their conspiracies,” said Radin.

Meanwhile, the chief political secretary to the chief minister Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, who is also Asajaya assemblyman, denied there were traitors in PBB.

PBB concerns with rumours Fadilah's supporters vs Taib's supporters

May 5, 2011

KUCHING: PBB vice-president Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman said he feared that the party would plunge into disunity by rumours of factions within it.

He said it was unfair to say that factions existed, for instance, between supporters of PBB Youth leader Datuk Fadillah Yusof and party president Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud.

Daud cautioned that such allegations by members could destroy PBB, which is the state’s BN backbone.

“Let us stop this labelling and accusations that there is one faction supporting Datuk Fadillah and another supporting the Chief Minister. Between the two, the YB Chief Minister (Taib) is too high in rank when compared to Fadillah,” the Tupong assemblyman told reporters after a meeting of new BN State Legislative Assembly (DUN) members at PBB headquarters here yesterday.

He made the comment following claims that factions existed in the PBB Youth wing.

Youth leaders were said to be divided when Fadillah was accused of failing to satisfactorily rebuke national BN and Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin for implying that Taib should step down in order to save BN from another political tsunami in the parliamentary election.

Echoing the Umno Youth chief’s sentiment was MCA vice-president Senator Gan Ping Sieu, who is Deputy Youth and Sports minister. Gan had urged Taib to pass the baton to another BN leader as soon as possible.