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Naked on Facebook, Orgy in Pulau Perhentian

News of wild, naked teenage parties on beautiful Pulau Perhentian, Terengganu, brings to mind our narcissistic tendency to enjoy sharing as much as possible.

The fact that the 200 teenagers who attended the sex orgy on the island were invited via Facebook highlights how social networks have gotten us in touch with our inner exhibitionist.

Many of us now get up in the morning and immediately update our Facebook or Twitter account. We have pictures of ourselves tagged by others on Facebook and these are pictures we may actually want to hide.

Some Facebook users talk about their antidepressants or post pictures of themselves violating the law or upload videos of themselves in compromising positions. Two Domino’s employees were fired for such a stunt and another company fired an employee who was actively on Facebook while on medical leave. There are others sending naked or semi-naked pictures of themselves via their cell phones.

There was the “Quiet” project run by Internet entrepreneur Josh Harris. Harris asked 100 people to live under constant surveillance in an underground bunker for 30 days, broadcasting all their actions to everyone else in the space. The project demonstrated that we would sacrifice privacy for public recognition.

As we continue to display our lives to the eyes of the World Wide Web, are we trumping our very notion of and right to privacy? Are we over-sharing personal information on Facebook? Are we inviting voyeurism into our lives as we frantically update our Twitter accounts from our Blackberrys and celebrating when we gain a new follower?

According to a study of Internet users 18 and older, a full 60% don’t worry about the amount of information that is available about them online, and only 38% have taken measures to limit such information.

If you care about privacy, the World Wide Web is a scary place. If you understand the implications of where and how your Facebook postings, Youtube videos or Gmail and Yahoo emails are stored, you might be more careful or not use these everyday tools as often.

Not only could those in employment get fired for those regrettable postings, but those looking for jobs could also find difficulty getting jobs as more employers turn to social networks to screen potential employees. The many Sarawakian teenagers and students who flaunt their pub romps and drinking sprees on Facebook may need to tone down on such postings. If there are pictures of a company manager or CEO at a beer bash 20 years ago, it could change things. JPA may withdraw your scholarship for an anti-establishment comment that your college mate didn’t like.

The uproar over CTOS, the credit tip-off service that banks in Malaysia use, has not generated enough concern for our own privacy, even though CTOS helped make our lives really miserable by aggregating our personal information and providing them to banks without our consent. What would it take for us to be really concerned about our privacy on social networks and other channels? It would need a big enough and a costly enough unfortunate incident. The following incidences give us hindsight and a glimpse of what could be the future.

1. Persistent Cookies Enforcement.

A new precedent may be set soon for governments around the world to follow as the US government is proposing that government agencies use single-session and multi-session cookies, including persistent cookies, to track users – as long as security and privacy standards governing the collection and tracking of information are met. The broad use of Web cookies on government sites could allow the mass collection of personal information. It won’t be long before the Malaysian government follow suit.

2. Deep Packet Inspection.

Webwise, a behavioural advertising technology from Phorm, a London-based startup has created a privacy controversy. Webwise uses “deep packet inspection”, which lets it see the content of Web traffic so that it may better track consumer behaviour and creates profiles that let it serve up more targeted ads. Several British ISPs say they would use Webwise to serve up ads more effectively. The US government has begun deliberations on permitting deep-packet inspection.

Already the Malaysian government has the capability to eavesdrop our cell phone conversations. The government could already have an arsenal of profiling data that could be used to influence voters and the public.

3. IP Address.

The German courts are in the process of considering whether an IP address is personally identifiable information that needs to be protected. No matter what the courts decide, citizens and consumers must regard their IP address as akin to their IC number.

4. Tidbits That Marketers Drool Over.

When Facebook implemented its Beacon application, tens of thousands of users revolted. The application is a targeted advertising tool that broadcast what Facebook users were buying (at Beacon’s partner sites) by posting ”stories” about it on their status feeds. While there are plenty of Facebook users who wanted to know what their friends were buying, there were also those who didn’t want that information public. One guy bought a nice ring as a surprise for his wife, who subsequently saw it on his Facebook page and asked him who it was for.

5. Online Prowlers.

We’ve seen postings of people harassing each other on Facebook. Soon, companies will have to deal with employees harassing each other in public via Facebook. Especially when there is a sense of anonymity for people when they sit in front of a computer. They say things to a computer they wouldn’t to a real person.

6. Location Aware.

You may have used Google Maps and experienced the way Google Maps’ Street View exposes location information. Angry activists have mashed up Google Maps with a public donations database and revealed home addresses of people who contributed money to defeat their cause.

Can the majority remain unconcerned with the repercussions that sharing personal information online might bring?

Watch for status update that says, "On the way to Pulau Perhentian".

The Sexy Spy Is Your Cell Phone

Your cell phone’s battery suddenly runs out faster than usual even when you have not been talking more? Your cell phone is unusually warmer even in between calls? An unusual annoying pulse buzzing while you’re on a call or between calls? You seem to have trouble shutting it off, or it stays lit up after you’ve powered down? The phone sometimes lights up when you aren’t making or receiving a call, or using any other function?

Your cell phone could be transmitting every word you say, every text message you send or receive (even if you’ve deleted them) and your exact location.

Even when your cell phone is turned off, it could still be used to listen to you and what goes on around you.

Most governments get their countries’ telcos to acquire and install systems that allow them to listen to any citizen’s calls or to track their location. It would be naive to think that Malaysian government does not eavesdrop. But I believe the government does not listen to you, unless you’re a gangster boss, or someone considered a threat. Or an opposition politican???

Your cell phone connects you to the world, but it could also be giving anyone from your boss to your wife a window into your every move. The same technology that lets you stay in touch on-the-go can now let others tap into your private world — without you ever even suspecting something is awry.

As an individual you can easily, in about 2 to 10 minutes, bug someone’s cell phone, enabling you to eavesdrop on every conversation, text message, website visit, and track every where the person goes. When the cell phone is turned off, you can turn on its microphone and remotely listen to what the person is doing.

How To Spy Using Cell Phone

Do you want to secretly spy on SMS text messages, calls, GPS locations and other confidential info of your child’s, spouse’s, girlfriend’s, competitor’s, boss’ or staff’s cell phone?

Before you can spy on a cell phone you need to know the following facts.

To spy on a given cell phone you should make sure that the target cell phone is compatible with the cell phone spy software. Cell phone spy softwares are compatible with the following type of phones (operating systems).

1. Symbian OS (Most Nokia Phones)
2. Apple iphone
3. Windows Mobile

Today most of the modern cell phones are loaded with one of the above three operating systems and hence compatibility doesn’t pose a major problem. There exists many cell phone spy softwares on the market to accomplish this job and hence people often get confused about which cell phone spy software to go for. Top rated cell phone spy software include Mobile Spy and FlexiSpy.

These are hybrid spy software/service which allows you to spy on your target cell phone in real time. This unique system records the activities of anyone who uses the cell phone. For this you need to install a small application onto the cell phone. This application starts at every boot of the phone but remains stealth and does not show up in the running process list. It runs in the background and will spy on every activity that takes place on the phone, including logging:

1. Calls Log – Each incoming and outgoing number on the phone is logged along with duration and time stamp.
2. Every text message/MMS is logged even if the phone’s logs are deleted. Includes full text.
3. The phones’s current location is frequently logged using GPS when signal is available.
4. Each address entered into Internet Explorer (or any browser) is logged.

· These cell phone spy software works in total stealth mode. The person using the phone can never come to know about the presence of this software.

Simple surveillance

You don’t have to plant a James Bond-style bug to conduct surveillance any more. A service called World Tracker (available on in UK) lets you use data from cell phone towers and GPS systems to pinpoint anyone’s exact whereabouts, any time — as long as they’ve got their phone on them.

All you have to do is log on to the web site and enter the target phone number. The site sends a single text message to the phone that requires one response for confirmation. Once the response is sent, you are locked in to their location and can track them step-by-step. The response is only required the first time the phone is contacted, so you can imagine how easily it could be handled without the phone’s owner even knowing.

Cell phone apps like Loopt and the new Google Latitude also allow you to track your friends' physical locations, and be tracked in return.

Advanced Eavesdropping

Once connected, the service shows you the exact location of the phone by the minute, conveniently pinpointed on a Google Map. The company has indicated plans to expand its service to other countries soon.

So you’ve figured out where someone is, but now you want to know what they’re actually doing. With software like FlexiSpy and Mobile Spy, you can listen in, even if they aren’t talking on their phone. Dozens of other programs are available that’ll turn any cell phone into a high-tech, long-range listening device. They run virtually undetectable to the average eye.

FlexiSpy, for example, promises to let you “catch cheating wives or cheating husbands” and even “bug meeting rooms.” Its tools use a phone’s microphone to let you hear essentially any conversations within earshot. Once the program is installed, all you have to do is dial a number to tap into the phone’s mic and hear everything going on. The phone won’t even ring, and its owner will have no idea you are virtually there at his side.

It’s Totally Illegal

You might be asking how this could possibly be legal. Turns out, it isn’t – at least, not in the ways I’ve just described. Much like those fancy smoking devices designed “for tobacco use only,” the software itself gets by because of a disclaimer saying it doesn’t endorse any illegal use.

Can the government use your cell phone records to track your physical location without first obtaining a warrant based on probable cause? My opinion on the matter is “no”. Any government applications for cell site location tracking information made without showing sufficient need for this kind of sensitive information should not be granted by authorities or the courts of law.

Even for our government to eavesdrop on you – it’s illegal.

Surveillance intensive future is inevitable.

A surveillance intensive future is inevitable. And cell phone tracking will be a common law enforcement investigative technique.

On the commercial side, the uses of location tracking are endless. And many of them may well turn out to be things people like. But a key principle of privacy, accepted around the world as part of the core fair information principles, is that information collected for one purpose shouldn’t be used for other purposes without people’s affirmative permission. If someone wants to sign up for a friend-finding service and understands fully what this means for their privacy (and hopefully has the ability to turn it on and off), that’s one thing. But people who are just using their mobile phones for texting and calling friends and family do not expect that companies will exploit the side effects of how cell phones work for other, unrelated purposes that invade their privacy.

Protecting Your Cell Phone

Unfortunately, there isn’t much you can do to safeguard your cell phone just yet. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time until we see Kaspersky or McAfee-style programs to firewall your phone and keep intruders out. For now, though, the only sure-fire form of protection is to keep a close guard on your phone. Don’t accept Bluetooth connections unless you know what they are. Most important, make sure no one has access to install something when you aren’t watching. Otherwise, they may soon be watching you when you least expect it.

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Coolest, Sexiest Concept Cars - WTF!

WTF!!! It's powered by nuclear reactor! This Darth Vader-looking machine as 24 wheels in bunches of six. The creators of this car claim that every part of it can go 100 years without maintenance. And yes, it's World Thorium Fuel (WTF) concept.


This topless 2-seater Jeep Renegade has the flared wheel openings and oversized tires of a dune buggy. The dual-fuel car claims low fuel consumption from its Bluetec diesel engine and electric motors.


This Ford Lincoln C's sexiness gives a reminiscent of the past, while its low glass top gives a sporty, convertible look. It's a Ford Focus chassis turned into a roadster.


This hybrid has an aggressively sexy profile and together with its gull-wing doors, it looks lean and mean. This Hyundai Nuvis cleverly blends contemporary style with futuristic, sci-fi detailing.


Straight from the future, this Swedish Koenigsegg Quant runs on solar power—its skin is coated in photovoltaic film, letting it travel 300 miles on a 20-minute charge. e

Ten Orgasms Per Hour Zone

Would putting up signs that look like speed limits, but tell pedestrians that they are in, for example, a "10 Smiles Per Hour Zone" be frivolous nonsense and a waste of taxpayers' money?

I feel compelled to write about this today after my mother complained to me about how strange it was that the shopkeepers at Cabang Tiga market in Kuala Terengganu did not wear any smile and were unfriendly. Certainly, for a state that has many long stretches of beautiful beaches and rich cultural heritage, it's strange. The supposedly world class equistrian resort is staffed by people who find it so difficult to smile and greet visitors.

In the 1970's, American psychologists Alice Isen and Paula Levin conducted an experiment in which some randomly selected people making a phone call found a ten-cent coin left behind by a previous caller, and others did not. All subjects were then given an opportunity to help a woman pick up a folder of papers she dropped in front of them.

Isen and Levin claimed that of the 16 who found a coin, 14 helped the woman, while of the 25 who did not find a coin, only one helped her. A further study found a similar difference in willingness to mail an addressed letter that had been left behind in the phone booth: those who found the coin were more likely to mail the letter.

While the differences shown by Isen and Levin seem orgasmic, very small positive experiences can make people not only feel better about themselves, but also be more helpful to others. There is little doubt that being in a good mood makes people feel better about themselves and more likely to help others. Psychologists refer to it as the "glow of goodwill."

Can it be concluded that Terengganu people lack positive experiences? I'm looking for an explanation as to why drivers in Kuala Terengganu have very little sense of consideration for others - slow drivers hog the fast lane, motorcyclists hog one whole lane, cars are parked in parking lots that aren't theirs.

Why shouldn't taking small steps that may produce such a glow be part of the role of government?

Don't we all want our children and those who live in our communities after the present generation has gone to have the same or even better opportunities for a good quality of life as today's residents have. To protect that quality of life, we have to be able to measure all the varied aspects that contribute to it - and friendliness is one of them.

For both state gov't and local municipalities, preventing crime is a far higher priority than encouraging friendship and cooperation. In his recent book Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Professor Richard Layard of the London School of Economics has argued that promoting friendship is often easy, cheap, and can have big payoffs in making people happier.

So why shouldn't that be a focus of public policy?

In Australia's Port Phillip, the Mayor says that putting up the signs is an attempt to encourage people to smile or say "G'day"—the standard Australian greeting—to both neighbors and strangers as they stroll down the street. Mayor Janet Bolitho adds that smiling, encourages people to feel more connected with each other and safer, so it reduces fear of crime—an important element in the quality of life of many neighborhoods.

In a related effort to get its residents to know each other, the city government also facilitates street parties. It leaves the details to the locals, but offers organizational advice, loans out barbecues and sun umbrellas, and covers the public liability insurance. Many people who have lived in the same street for many years meet each other for the first time at a street party.

All of this is part of a larger program that attempts to measure changes in the city's quality of life, so that the city council can know whether it is taking the community in a desirable direction. The council wants Port Phillip to be a sustainable community, not merely in an environmental sense, but also in terms of social equity, economic viability, and cultural vitality.

Port Phillip does not consider private car ownership as a sign of prosperity, instead, it hails a declining number of cars—and rising use of public transport—as a sign of progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions while encouraging a healthier lifestyle in which people are more inclined to walk or ride a bike.

Can Kuching use this measure of quality of city life: the proportion of people who smile at you in the city?

Source: Project Syndicate http://www.project-syndicate.org/

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Upgrading to Sexier, Touchier Handy Mate

If guys could have girlfriends like having the cellphones - extension of our hands to accomplish many things, and completely upgradable to new sexier, even irresistible version.

Three or four years ago, we were all happy with 2-megapixel cameras embedded into our phones--it was enough to get a pretty good picture, record a VGA-resolution movie, basically capture moments you'd otherwise never photograph because you take your cellphone to more places than your camera. But then the megapixel count began to creep higher.

There was the 5-megapixel LG KG920 and Sony Ericsson K850. Samsung's SCH-V770 pushed the figure to 7. Some kind of barrier was then broken and over the last year or so there was a flurry of 8-megapixel devices: the Sony Ericsson C905, the LG KC780 and KC910, the Samsung SPH-V8200--which was reportedly the first--and many others.

How many of us print out our pictures bigger than a standard letter-sized piece of paper? For that, you need only around a 6- to 7-megapixel image for that task--anything higher adds detail you will never see. For the standard 6 x 4-inch photo, about 5-megapixels will do. And that's just printing them out: To show photos on the HDTVs now beginning to grace Malaysians' homes, you need a maximum of 2.1-megapixels, and the average digital photoframe will do VGA resolution--that's 640 x 480, or only 0.3-megapixels.

And now 12-megapixel phones are here!

An an iPhone 4G that's not an Apple iPhone. It has an interesting, if excessive-sounding 12-megapixel camera there, looking like a super-slim pocket digital cam. It's powerful too, with masterpiece Schneider-Kreuznach optics, autofocus and a 3200 ISO rating. It's also got a proper xenon flash. And it records video in 720p HD. It's too iPhoney.

The handset comes complete with a new feature dubbed Intellizoom. Other camera stuff include ISO up to 3200, camera images geo-tagging and zero shutter lag, which presumably means images will be taken as fast as with a dedicated digital camera.

LG GC990 specs include:

• 3.2 inch touchscreen display with 16 million colors and unknown resolution
• S-Class Touch UI
• Accelerometer for UI auto-rotate
• Wi-Fi with DLNA
• GPS and A-GPS
• Bluetooth
• Wi-Fi with DLNA,
• camera images geo-tagging and zero shutter lag, which presumably means images will be taken as fast as with a dedicated digital camera
• TV-out
• DivX and Xvid video formats support.

LG GC990 Louvre's 12.1MP camera features autofocus, plus:

• Schneider Kreuznach lens
• ISO up to 3200
• Xenon flash
• Intellizoom and Touch Focus
• HD (1280 x 720 pixels) video recording at 30fps

Manufacturers should instead, spend all that R&D money improving the optics, autofocus and flash on the poor-performing models we already have, and let us buy a cellphone that takes great photos, irrespective of how many pixels it has.

And guys can stick to a single girlfriend without having to change to a new upgraded version.

Hot Agnes Monica at Bidayuh Gawai Festival?

How Bidayuhs Measure Up Today

If Agnes Monica's hot statistics are to reveal anything, it would be that many rural Bidayuhs also do not have enough clothing to cover their bodies. But Agnes Monica's exposure is nothing compared to UNDP statistics that reveal communities living in rural areas of Sarawak are among the worse off when compared to the rest of the country, and often face considerable hardships including securing land rights and other basic rights to development.

Many of the state’s communities such as the Bidayuh have, relatively low human capital, lack ready access to basic amenities and facilities, and because the physical infrastructure is underdeveloped in the areas where they live, they remain poorly connected to markets.

We know that for a strong Sarawak, we need quality human capital across races including minority groups such as the Bidayuh. However, our education system today is failing us. Quality health care fail to reach the majority of Sarawakians who are in the rural areas. GDP growth is concentrated only in major towns, not in the rural areas where most Sarawakians are.

The Bidayuh and other Dayak people have seen escalating erosion to their land tenure held under Sarawak Native Customary Rights (NCR), from first massive logging, and then giant plantations and dam building have robbed many Dayak communities of their land. Without land, the physical survival and the survival of their cultural traditions and ethnic identity are threatened.

Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation (AIPP) secretary-general Joan Carling urged Malaysia to take up the recommendation by other countries such as Mexico, which raised the issue of poor human rights record with regards to indigenous communities during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) hearing in Geneva last year.

She said indigenous groups in Malaysia had long been fighting for their right to their native territories, and these struggles continue today. Although Malaysia adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in September 2007, there has been no real change on the ground to address the land-grab issue affecting many indigenous people, such as the Bidayuh.

Bidayuhs are a minority indigenous group in Sarawak. There are about 169,000 Bidayuhs, who constitute some 8% of the state’s population. Most of them live in Kuching, Padawan, Serian, Bau and Lundu areas in the 1st Division.

Bidayuh today remain one of the marginalized indigenous minority groups in Malaysia and represent a population of those living below poverty line. Like the other Dayaks, living mostly in the vast rural areas of Sarawak, many still live without basic amenities such as roads, jetties, clinics, treated drinking water, and electricity. Time for them has stood still since independence in 1963.

Issues of the Bidayuh Today
While the rest of the majority races in Malaysia progress in terms of socio-economic and education, the Bidayuh remain in the fringes of development and some Bidayuh communities live in poverty. Critical and urgent issues facing Bidayuh include:

1. Land are not titled and unaware of their rights under common law. Native Customary Rights land has been taken over by the state government for sale and development at any time. As Bidayuh are still dependent on subsistence farming, titled land is necessary to progress to modern farming.
2. Bidayuh participation in both the traditional and modern businesses are poor. This is hampered by limited business opportunity, highly dependent on public spending and government projects and poor networking. Some small sized firms made some inroads in small-scale construction sectors. However, none appears to be able to sustain their business due to easy entry and hence are very competitive.
3. Bidayuh form a large portion of the hardcore poor in Sarawak, living in poor housing with insufficient food supply and lack of access to quality health care, communication and transportation.
4. As most Bidayuh live in the rural areas, they are receiving the poorer quality of education than what people in the urban schools are getting. While good early childhood education is critical to the development of children, rural children are not getting pre-school development that urban children are getting. This leaves Bidayuh children to continue to lag behind others in education.
5. The high number of Bidayuh children not getting entrance into public institutions of higher learning, give rise to more Bidayuh children being left behind in the knowledge economy.

What Bidayuh Need to Achieve Equal Progress
There is widespread resentment among Bidayuh that they continue to be marginalized and continue to be left on the fringes of development. To achieve equal progress with other races, equal opportunities and privileges must be given to Bidayuh. The following are critical for the state government to provide the Bidayuh in order to achieve progress:

1. Immediate halt to indiscriminate acquisition of untitled native land by the state government.

2. Expedite the issuing of titles to all native land.

3. Allocate native land that have been designated as state land to Bidayuh families as temporary occupation for a minimum of 60 years for the purpose of modern farming. Land not developed within 3 years are to be taken back and allocated to other families.

4. Establish a well-funded and appropriately staffed Farming Program for Bidayuh that will among other things, do the following:

• Provide financial aid to Bidayuh families to develop their land for modern farming. Access to the aid must be easy and mechanism for repayment must also be easy.
• In addition to providing financial aid, the government must also provide quality professional assistance to upgrade the knowledge and skills of Bidayuh families on modern farming.
• Encourage Young People to Become Farmers: The Farming Program will establish a new program to identify and train the next generation of farmers. The program will also provide incentives to make it easier for new farmers to afford their first farm.
• Encourage Organic and Local Agriculture: The Farming Program for Bidayuh will help organic farmers afford to certify their crops and will also promote regional food systems.
• Strong Safety Net for Family Farmers: The Farming Program for Bidayuh will provide family farmers with stability and predictability and strengthen producer protections to ensure family farmers have fair access to markets, control over their production decisions, and transparency in prices.
• Support Small Business Development: The Farming Program for Bidayuh will provide capital for family farmers to create value-added enterprises, like cooperative marketing initiatives and farmer-owned processing plants. They also will establish a small business and micro-enterprise initiative for rural Bidayuh kampongs.
• Improve Rural Education for Bidayuh: From the moment our children step into a classroom, the single most important factor in determining their achievement is their teacher. To improve the quality of education that Bidayuh children are receiving, the state government must provide incentives for talented individuals to enter the teaching profession, including increased pay for teachers who work in rural areas.

The government must create a Rural Revitalization Program to attract and retain young people to rural Bidayuh kampongs. More quality community colleges should be created and increase research and educational funding for community colleges in Bidayuh areas. Early childhood development centres must be established in Bidayuh kampongs and staffed by only trained and qualified professionals. The government must ensure all rural Bidayuh children have access to pre-school; provide affordable and high-quality child care that will promote child development and ease the burden on working families.

The government must ensure competent, effective teachers in rural schools that are organized for success. The government should provide service scholarships to recruit and prepare teachers who commit to working in underserved Bidayuh dominated districts. To support teachers, the government must foster ongoing improvements in teacher education, provide mentoring for beginning teachers, create incentives for shared planning and learning time for teachers. To retain teachers, the government must support career pathways that provide ongoing professional development and reward accomplished teachers for their expertise. An initiative must be taken to help eliminate teacher shortages in hard-to-staff areas and subjects, improve teacher retention rates, strengthen teacher preparation programs, improve professional development, and better utilize and reward accomplished teachers.

6. Increase the number of seats for Bidayuh students in public institutions of higher learning: In order for the Bidayuh community to come to equal progress in education with other races, more places should be allocated for the Bidayuh students in local public colleges and universities.

7. Improve Health Care for Bidayuh Communities: Rural health care providers are often less experienced and do not have access to the latest medical and healthcare practices in order to deliver the best clinical outcome. Rural folks have to come to Kuching city to get better medical treatment and that is often when illness become more serious. The government must increase rural access to quality care by promoting health information technologies like telemedicine and staff rural clinics and hospitals with more experienced and better trained physicians and nurses. A Nurse-Family Partnership should be established to all Bidayuh, first-time mothers each year. The Nurse-Family Partnership provides home visits by trained registered nurses to Bidayuh expectant mothers and their families in Bidayuh kampongs.

8. Establish a Bidayuh Business Development Assistance Program: As Bidayuh community lags far behind in participation in business and entrepreneurship, the Bidayuh need specific business development assistance. The assistance program will include allocation of government infrastructure projects to Bidayuh community, allocation of business premises in strategic locations and access to financial aid and grants. Rural infrastructure projects must be allocated to local Bidayuh contractors.

9. Expand Access to Jobs: The government must invest in transitional jobs and career pathway programs that implement proven methods of helping low-income Bidayuh succeed in the workforce. The government must also create a program to directly engage disadvantaged youth in job opportunities to strengthen their communities, while also providing them with practical skills in important high-growth career field.

10. Establish At Least 20 Promise Bidayuh Kampongs: The government must create at least 20 Promise Bidayuh Kampongs in areas that have high levels of poverty and low levels of student academic achievement in Bidayuh dominated districts. The Promise Bidayuh Kampongs have a full network of services, including early childhood education, youth development efforts and after-school activities, to an entire kampong from birth to college.

The government should work with community and business leaders to identify and address the unique economic development barriers of every one of the 20 Promise Bidayuh Kampongs. The government will provide additional resources to address community needs.

The government, by implementing all of the above with full commitment on a sustainable basis, can help bring the Bidayuh community on equal progress with other races. As Bidayuh progress, Sarawak and the nation thrives. The nation will be strengthened for further prosperity.