by Fiona McAlpine | Jun 13, 2022 | Blog, In the media, Updates
In Malaysian Borneo, local communities are fighting to safeguard their land from logging in the face of corporate intimidation. Last December, timber giant Samling’s COO James Ho Yam Kuan wrote in an opinion piece in a popular Malaysian online news site that he was...
by Jessica Merriman | Mar 24, 2022 | In the media, Updates
Originally published on ICCA Consortium by Bruno Manser Fonds ICCA Consortium Member SAVE Rivers continues uphill struggle for accountability and Indigenous rights in Malaysian timber industry In June 2021, the timber company Samling Plywood filed a lawsuit against...
by Jessica Merriman | Aug 30, 2021 | In the media, Updates
Originally published on ICCA Consortium We stand with over 100 organizations in condemning Samling’s bullying of Indigenous environmental and human rights defenders in Sarawak The ICCA Consortium has joined a hundred organizations signing a letter to ask...
by Fiona McAlpine | Aug 29, 2021 | Updates
JOINT PRESS RELEASE Samling Group is suing civil society organisation SAVE Rivers and its directors in a SLAPP suit (MIRI / SARAWAK / MALAYSIA) Today over 100 organisations sent a letter to Malaysian timber giant Samling asking the timber giant to withdraw its legal...
by Jessica Merriman | Aug 13, 2021 | In the media, Updates
Originally published in The Edge Markets by Emir Zainul and Cheryl Poo KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 13): Sarawak logging company Samling Plywood Sdn Bhd has defended its RM5 million defamation lawsuit against SAVE Rivers, contending that the allegations made by the environmental...
