Our group website is now running. You
can now access it at www.phil-sabah.org
Please contact the team leaders for
your registration and account:
mnuevo@phil-sabah.org
brandynhover@phil-sabah.org
Thank you!
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Formal Group in the Philippine claim to Sabah
For all those interested in the Philippine claim to Sabah: Please stand by and wait for further annoucements because we will be launching a group that advocates and backs the claim. For the mean time you can reach us at northborneophilippines@yahoo.com or ym id: northborneophilippines
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!
Sunday, January 13, 2008
What does Sabah mean in Malaysia?
By: Zamboanga.com Editorial
Over the course of this editorial, we will be presenting you an explanation and documentation as to the latest and greatest reason for the value and meaning of the word Sabah in Malaysia. The intensity of events over the past few weeks were unprecedented in our modern-day global economic and diplomatic world, and yet the response from the global community has been equally unprecedented in muteness and coverage.
We wondered very carefully as to what would cause Malaysia, a state that has been garnering close ties with its ASEAN friends, to turn that attainment around so quickly and alienate its ASEAN neighbors by deporting and abusing their citizens living in Sabah?
We also wondered what would cause Malaysia to inflamingly jeopardize a prosperous economic setup in Sabah and cause the companies there to loose valuable production when their Filipino and Indonesian workers were deported swiftly and mercilessly out of Sabah, without supplying these companies with replacement workers to pick up the slack?
We wondered out loud what lunatic Malaysian Prime Minister would callously deport, starve, rape, and cause the deaths of its fellow Muslim brethren who have historical rights to belong in Sabah?
We wondered suspiciously as to why Malaysia would ominously elicit the ire of two sovereign governments and its people, namely The Philippines and Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, and not show any remorse for it?
What could possibly drive a nation to the brink of war, in order to accomplish such an empirical goal?
What lies beneath all the urgency to deport these Filipino citizens out of Sabah?
Well, we can only muster one defining answer to the above questions – OIL!!! Lot and lots of OIL!
We all know what’s been happening in the Middle East for decades, and the governments who want to control the flow and access to the oil. Well, literally speaking, Malaysia is jealously trying to create its own abundance of oil wells through its state-owned oil and gas corporation - Petronas - much like its billionaire friend the Sultan of Brunei. It will undoubtedly achieve its goal at the expense of its internal nemesis, the Sultanate of Sulu! Who cares about the lowly Tausugs and their brand of Islamic beliefs? To deplore them like pigs wallowing in bloody mud is highly substantiated by the hypocrite Prime Minister …. The thickness and wealth of oil is much thicker than the blood of their Muslim brothers and sisters, the poor Tausugs and their lost Sabah.
We wanted to get proof of our strong suspicion, even though we believed it to be 99% true! However, we had to be responsible and try to present evidence in order to substantiate our belief. So, after embarking on a fact-finding mission, hoping it would not take a lot of effort or sentimental preponderance ala Malacañang-style, and the result came up in just a few seconds of searching! Right there in front of our eyes was the proof we were looking for! Well, well, well...: we'll let you absorb the report below first:
SOURCE: Murphy Oil Corporation
Murphy Oil Announces Significant Oil Discovery in Deepwater Malaysia ( in Sabah! )
EL DORADO, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2002--Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR - News; TSX:MUR.U) announced today that its subsidiary, Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd., has drilled a significant oil discovery on the Kikeh prospect located on Block K, offshore Sabah Malaysia.
"We are immensely pleased with this discovery," says Claiborne P. Deming, Murphy Oil President and Chief Executive Officer. "This well encountered several hundred feet of high quality oil reservoirs. The structure covers a large area and we plan to immediately move the rig to drill an appraisal location to help determine the size of this discovery."
Located in almost 4,400 feet of water, the Kikeh discovery lies in the southern part of Block K and is the first deepwater oil discovery made in Malaysia (Sabah). Murphy, as operator, has an 80% interest in Block K and adjoining Block H, which combined, cover over six million acres. Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned exploration and production arm of Petronas (Malaysia's state-owned oil and gas corporation), holds the remaining 20% interest.
Over the course of this editorial, we will be presenting you an explanation and documentation as to the latest and greatest reason for the value and meaning of the word Sabah in Malaysia. The intensity of events over the past few weeks were unprecedented in our modern-day global economic and diplomatic world, and yet the response from the global community has been equally unprecedented in muteness and coverage.
We wondered very carefully as to what would cause Malaysia, a state that has been garnering close ties with its ASEAN friends, to turn that attainment around so quickly and alienate its ASEAN neighbors by deporting and abusing their citizens living in Sabah?
We also wondered what would cause Malaysia to inflamingly jeopardize a prosperous economic setup in Sabah and cause the companies there to loose valuable production when their Filipino and Indonesian workers were deported swiftly and mercilessly out of Sabah, without supplying these companies with replacement workers to pick up the slack?
We wondered out loud what lunatic Malaysian Prime Minister would callously deport, starve, rape, and cause the deaths of its fellow Muslim brethren who have historical rights to belong in Sabah?
We wondered suspiciously as to why Malaysia would ominously elicit the ire of two sovereign governments and its people, namely The Philippines and Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, and not show any remorse for it?
What could possibly drive a nation to the brink of war, in order to accomplish such an empirical goal?
What lies beneath all the urgency to deport these Filipino citizens out of Sabah?
Well, we can only muster one defining answer to the above questions – OIL!!! Lot and lots of OIL!
We all know what’s been happening in the Middle East for decades, and the governments who want to control the flow and access to the oil. Well, literally speaking, Malaysia is jealously trying to create its own abundance of oil wells through its state-owned oil and gas corporation - Petronas - much like its billionaire friend the Sultan of Brunei. It will undoubtedly achieve its goal at the expense of its internal nemesis, the Sultanate of Sulu! Who cares about the lowly Tausugs and their brand of Islamic beliefs? To deplore them like pigs wallowing in bloody mud is highly substantiated by the hypocrite Prime Minister …. The thickness and wealth of oil is much thicker than the blood of their Muslim brothers and sisters, the poor Tausugs and their lost Sabah.
We wanted to get proof of our strong suspicion, even though we believed it to be 99% true! However, we had to be responsible and try to present evidence in order to substantiate our belief. So, after embarking on a fact-finding mission, hoping it would not take a lot of effort or sentimental preponderance ala Malacañang-style, and the result came up in just a few seconds of searching! Right there in front of our eyes was the proof we were looking for! Well, well, well...: we'll let you absorb the report below first:
SOURCE: Murphy Oil Corporation
Murphy Oil Announces Significant Oil Discovery in Deepwater Malaysia ( in Sabah! )
EL DORADO, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2002--Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR - News; TSX:MUR.U) announced today that its subsidiary, Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd., has drilled a significant oil discovery on the Kikeh prospect located on Block K, offshore Sabah Malaysia.
"We are immensely pleased with this discovery," says Claiborne P. Deming, Murphy Oil President and Chief Executive Officer. "This well encountered several hundred feet of high quality oil reservoirs. The structure covers a large area and we plan to immediately move the rig to drill an appraisal location to help determine the size of this discovery."
Located in almost 4,400 feet of water, the Kikeh discovery lies in the southern part of Block K and is the first deepwater oil discovery made in Malaysia (Sabah). Murphy, as operator, has an 80% interest in Block K and adjoining Block H, which combined, cover over six million acres. Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned exploration and production arm of Petronas (Malaysia's state-owned oil and gas corporation), holds the remaining 20% interest.
New sultan of Sulu vows to get Sabah from Malaysia
THE newly crowned sultan of Sulu in the southern Philippines said on Sunday he will fight to get back the state of Sabah from Malaysian control, claiming territorial rights over the North Borneo territory. “I will fight for my family’s rights in the World Court,” Rodinood Julaspi Kiram 2nd told hundreds of followers outside a mosque in Quezon City, where he was crowned the 29th sultan of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo. “Malaysia is illegally occupying Sabah. Sabah is ours, we will take it back.” Kiram said he was appalled to watch television images of Filipino women and children being maltreated by Malaysian police in several Sabah communities. Tens of thousands of Filipinos in Sabah have been sent back home since 2002. “The Malaysians have no authority to expel Filipinos from Sabah because the territory belongs to us,” he said, adding he would enlist the help of the Philippine government to bring his case to the International Court of Justice. Kiram, 56, is only now ascending to the sultanate’s throne, five years after his father’s death, because of confusion about succession rules. The last Sultan of Sulu left about 70 families as heirs. Kiram said Malaysia helped Muslim rebels fight Manila in the 1970s, providing the separatists with sanctuaries, training bases, weapons and moral support. He said he knew about the Malaysia’s role in the rebellion because he was a former guerrilla leader himself. Kiram said Malaysia has recently changed strategy and agreed to broker peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the Muslim rebels only to protect its claims on Sabah. On Monday, President Arroyo will host a private dinner with Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s former prime minister, due to address a business conference this week. President Arroyo’s spokesman, Ignacio Bunye, said Mrs. Arroyo will thank Mahathir for his key role in brokering talks between the government and Muslim rebels, due to resume this month in Kuala Lumpur. The dispute over Sabah is among long-standing irritants in ties between the two Southeast Asian nations, but was placed on the backburners as trade and investment links grew in the early 1990s. The Sultanate of Sulu obtained Sabah from the Sultanate of Brunei as a gift for helping put down a rebellion on the Borneo Island. The British leased Sabah and transferred control over the territory to Malaysia after the end of Second World War. Even after Sabah became part of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur still pays an annual rent of 5,000 ringgit ($1,315) to the heirs of the Sultan of Sulu. In the 1960s, the Philippines tried and failed to claim ownership of Sabah, including a bungled covert operation that helped trigger a Muslim rebellion in the 1970s.--Reuters
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