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Published on: Sunday, July 04, 2021 By: Datuk John Lo Text Size: I AM compelled to express my heartiest congratulations and high respect to Sabah’s government and opposition political leaders in exhibiting the rarest unity of support for Hajiji’s move to relax the Covid-19 SOP in Sabah on 28 June 2021. It has never happened since Malaysia Day. Never would I have dreamed that this historical unique political unity can happen in my life time. Hopefully, this unity for Sabah, one for all, al...

MY heartiest congratulations to Sabah Foundation and Merica Group for their JV company Gerak Saga Sdn Bhd having been awarded 2 covetous certificates  [a] Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme Forest Management Certification (MTCS-FMC) and  [b] the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Forest Management/Chain of Custody Certification.  These 2 awards are important in many significant ways because all the logs down to all finished products will be acceptable in the world, meaning worldw...

“THE expression God helps those who help themselves is an ancient proverb. It stresses how important it is to be able to come to your own aid and take initiative in life, and not to just wait for and rely on divine intervention, or on the help of others for that matter.  It also conveys that divine intervention is most likely to come to those who take action on their own behalf and not to those who sit back and wait for heavenly help to arrive.”  https://thewordcounter.com/...

Published on: Sunday, May 16, 2021 By: Datuk John Lo Text Size: THANKS for the many calls, messages and suggestions on my article on Sabah’s GLCs 11 April 2021. Many expressed grave concerns on the dire circumstances of some GLCs and their overall negative impacts on Sabah’s economy.  Some gave very useful suggestions and recommendations. Common desire, as it should be, is that current GLC situation must not, should not be allowed to continue.  There must be a thorough review and transfor...

Published on: Sunday, May 09, 2021 By: Datuk John Lo Text Size: Empowerment/Practical Policies Vs Funding? Why countries with abundant resources don’t do well, many are struck in the 3rd world cesspool and have become perennial economic failures? The world is literally littered with many such countries in oil/gas rich Middle East, diamond, gold, oil in Africa, well-endowed with natural resources in Latin America and South East Asia. Shamefully, our Malaysia is not much better.  Those without...

Published on: Sunday, March 07, 2021 By: Datuk John Lo Text Size: WHO would believe that Petronas would make a loss of RM21b in 2020? In its hey days, its profit was hovering around RM140b and had financed up to 40pc of Malaysia’s annual budget.  Oil countries, like Brunei, Saudi Arabia, which did not manage their windfall from oil prudently, have suffered huge deficits in the last several years. They are now in desperate mode to salvage their erstwhile financial pride. Malaysia is the same ...

Published on: Sunday, March 07, 2021 By: Leonard Alaza Text Size: Sabah has witnessed how excessive logging over the past several decades had heavily degraded its natural forest. IN

Published on: Saturday, March 06, 2021 By: Borneo Post Hajiji with ISB members. On his right is Datuk John Lo. Kota Kinabalu: The State Government wants all hurdles hampering investments to be removed to facilitate investments into Sabah, said Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Mohd Noor.  “Red tape faced by well-meaning investors will only hurt our efforts to draw investors to Sabah, hence we must remove them,” he said, when chairing the first board meeting of Invest Sabah Bhd (ISB), Friday...

Https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/09/625711/sabah-ranks-malaysias-poorest-state-again A friend has just brought the above news item to my attention which should be saddening to those who are concerned with Sabah’s economy. I have no “heart” to delve into the details of this article. Just the headline “SABAH RANKS AS MALAYSIA’S POOREST STATE, AGAIN” is heart breaking.  I cannot believe that the PAS politicians in Kelantan can do better for Kelantanes...

Published on: Sunday, February 21, 2021 By: Datuk John Lo Text Size: AFTER advocating several times for a Sabahans First Policy, it is comforting to observe several encouraging developments which I hope will become milestones to the realisation of this policy. One on its own, it may be considered insignificant. Consider them as beginning of a healthy political trend, these incidences may herald a NEW SABAH. All of them, if genuine political is given a chance to prevail, can cultivate the much ...