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Samling is the mega-logging company that has received concessions to chop down over one million hectares of Sarawak’s once pristine and immensely valuable tropical rainforest over the past four decades, mainly thanks to the decision-making of the present Governor Abdul Taib Mahmud. Company officers like to boast that in the process the company became the largest single global customer of Caterpillar bulldozers. Think about the level of destruction. The same company has been proven by Sarawak Report to have gifted at least two North American mansions to the same Governor of Sarawak, but such trades are of course merely the tip of an iceberg of wealth and profit divided amongst the crony elite of the state arising from this plunder and the ensuing orgy of mono-culture plantations again rolled out by Samling. ....