BATANG AI: The Sarawak Barisan Nasional is enlisting the help of component parties to secure the crucial Chinese and Malay votes for the Batang Ai by-election. It has become obvious that the non-Ibans are the decisive factor in this Iban-majority constituency. There are some 500 Chinese and Malays from the 8,006 registered voters [...]
More than 300 voters from three longhouses in Batang Ai have pledged their support for Barisan Nasional candidate Malcom Mussen Lamoh. Representatives from Wong Panjai, Wong Pandak and Ensawang, some 10km to 14km from here, declared their support for Mussen yesterday to dispel rumours that they were behind Opposition candidate Jawah Gerang from the [...]
TAIPING, March 29 (Bernama) — The MCA is confident that the new spirit brought by the new leadership of Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties will bring the wind of change to Bukit Gantang, especially to the Chinese community there which want a stable government. Its vice-president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said this new spirit [...]
The Batang Ai by-election will see a straight fight between Barisan Nasional and PKR after an independent pulled out at the last minute. Barisan newcomer Malcom Mussem Lamoh, 49, will face former five-term Lubok Antu MP Jawah Gerang, 55, in this rural, predominantly Iban constituency. Gerang arrived at the nomination centre at the [...]
