Watch The Amazing Perseid Meteor Shower

Every August, when many people are vacationing in the country where skies are dark, the best-known meteor shower makes its appearance. The annual Perseid meteor shower, as it is called, promised to put on an above average display this year.

A very good shower will produce about one meteor per minute for a given observer under a dark country sky. Any light pollution or moonlight considerably reduces the count.

The August Perseids are among the strongest of the readily observed annual meteor showers, and at maximum activity nominally yield 50 or 60 meteors per hour. However, observers with exceptional skies often record even larger numbers. Typically during an overnight watch, the Perseids are capable of producing several bright, flaring and fragmenting meteors, which leave fine trains in their wake.

The time of the closest approach should be 4:50 p.m. ET (20:50 GMT) on Aug. 11 and could last about 40 minutes, favoring observers in Eastern Europe, eastern North Africa eastward to central Russia, India, and western China.

To find out more, you can Google on "Perseid meteor shower", or visit Nasa website or http://www.space.com/spacewatch/040806_perseid_guide.html.

Another Rape of Sarawak by State BN

The 12 hydroelectric dams in Sarawak,to be located at Ulu Air, Metjawah, Belaga, Baleh, Belepeh, Lawas, Tutoh, Limbang, Baram, Murum and Linau rivers do not need to undergo Federal environment impact assessment (EIA) requirements. The dams will have a total generating capacity in the state to 7,000MW by 2020 – an increase of 600% from the current capacity.

A Court of Appeal ruling 11 years ago the Environmental Quality Act did not apply in Sarawak. According to the state’s regulations, EIAs on such projects do not need to be scrutinised by the public.

So the Sarawak Barisan Nasional gov't is free to rape and plunder the land to enrich the politicians and their cronies.

Malaysia did not exist before 1963 until sabah,sarawak,spore n malaya came together as equal partners to form the federation of malaysia. East malaysia never "join" else the terms would implies that E.M join an existing political entity as junior partners. Then the federal govt commitment to a set of state rights gurantees attached to the m'sian agrmt refd to as the 20 points and among the key points were :-
Immigration control
Borneonization of civil service
The natives of east malaysia would be on par with the malays and other indigenous group in the peninsular ie a full bumiputra status....recently, there were cases of east m'sian bumiputras denied the housing discount when they buy property in the peninsular. we call this the non muslim bumiputra or 3rd class bumiputra.
ISLAM status as the national religion was not applicable to east m'sia.

The 20 points, if read in their entirely, give the east malaysian states considerable political autonomy but there has been a considerable dilution for the past 45 years.

East m'sia contributes more to the federal coffers through oil n gas revenue and yet still thousand of rural people have no access to clean water and electricity. Few villages just abt half an hour drive from kuching or kota kinabalu still having gravel road.
Official statistics showed sabah and sarawak as persistently having one of the highest poverty rates in the country.

What east m'sian want is respect for political autonomy as promised in the 20 points and a helping hand to bring dev on par with the peninsular states..
Thus, a vote for change is a vote for a progressive east malaysia..

One of the World's Best Place to Visit

When in Sarawak, make a trip to Kapit, one of Sarawak's best places to visit.

Address
Resident's Office of Kapit Division, 96800 Kapit, Sarawak.

Tel
+6 084 796 963 / 445

Email
info@kapit.net.my