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Sabahans First Policy is 1st of its kind in Sabah. Like the saying goes, there are policies AND there are pivotal policies. Some policies produce negative impacts, some fail to produce any benefits for the intended recipients for many reasons, only a tiny number benefit a small number of people.

I agree with Datuk Jeffry Kitingan that Arnie Jaliusih of Kiulu is not an isolated case. Very striking and most saddening is that Arnie’s home is just over an hour’s drive from KK and yet such level of poverty can exist.

APPARENTLY, the state government had quietly planned for quite some time to build a new official residence for the Head of State. The secret was kept until Tuesday – July 4, 2023, when the Minister of Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts let the cat out of the bag! When it will be bu

DATUK Seri Panglima Hajiji has been resetting the Sabah’s economy in the last 2½ years.

Confronting challenges head on in Sabah. Yes, Sabah is still being plagued by many problems, the most serious of which are those that afflict and vex our daily lives. Most infuriating!!!! Popping straight to mind are the badly deteriorated infrastructures, the daily dry taps, black outs and “inch by inch” traffic jams. You have every right to ask for the reasons of “no solutions” for so long. The answer is that there had been no Sabah leader, until now, who, for various r...

Sabah’s total land area is 7.3631 million hectares of which [a] Gazetted Forest reserve is 3,574,468 hectares which constitutes about 48.6% of Sabah’s total land mass. [b] 232,000 NT covering about 1 million hectares. [c] Oil palm plantations covering about 1.73 million hectares. [d] 33 FMU consisting of 1.6 million hectares.

Calling young Sabahans to take up job & business opportunities. As a Sabahan, I have observed, over the last 2 years, the impressive performance of Hajiji in his management, revitalize and restructure of the Sabah’s economy. In spite of the political instability prevailing at the beginning, he has initiated a number of inclusive policies to unite Sabahans. This was soon followed by his introduction of investor friendly policies which, like I have written a few times, have attracted unp...

IN recent years, the US has been behaving like a 2nd rate rogue superpower. It has gone against all the rules of the international rule-based order that it has authored for all other countries to follow and to obey.

In response to my last Sunday’s article “The tough gets going when the going gets tough”, a very prominent Sabah businessman, who is very concerned about Sabah’s future said to me that Sabah can choose to stay poor or be poorer, going further down the slippery rope of economic quagmire.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) announced that all Secure2u authorisations will be moved to its MAE app on July 1, 2023, to ensure enhanced online security features for the bank’s customers.