KUCHING, Sarawak, Malaysia, January 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- - Plans in Place to Grow GDP by 5.5% and Create 1.5 Million Jobs Sarawak has undergone an impressive economic transformation under the leadership of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud and is steadily moving towards achieving 'developed' nation status by 2020. Abdul Taib Mahmud was appointed Chief Minister in 1981 and over the past three decades has transformed Sarawak from an agricultural state to an up-and-coming economic player in Malaysia.

By SC Chan THE TIMING COULD NOT HAVE been more ironic. Just days after Sarawak announced it was building 12 hydropower dams across the state, a massive power failure plunged most of the state into darkness.

HYDERABAD: Chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Saturday hoped that gas from Krishna-Godavari basin would be available to the state from July-August.

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The chief minister of India's West Bengal state Wednesday scrapped a controversial chemical project following a police action in which 14 people died.