KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) will accelerate its fibre deployment in Sabah, targeting a minimum of 145,000 premises to be connected in the next three years from 2022 – 2025, achieving 58% of fibre coverage in the state.
Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) is aiming to achieve 58% fibre coverage in Sabah over the next three years, targeting to connect at least 145,000 premises as the group accelerates its fibre deployment through 2025.
In a statement Thursday, TM said it connected close to 282,000 premises in Sabah with a total of 32,000km of fibre optic cables statewide and has invested RM1.1 billion for capital expenditure since 2012 towards improving connectivity and fiberisation in the State.
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LEE Vui Leong’s relationship with the guerrillas was clarified by his wife Kong, “My husband never joined them as an active member, but he helped them whenever he could, including passing information in early 1943. I knew of my husband’s connection with the guerrillas.”
The Japanese, however, maintained that Lee Vui Leong was involved. Sergeant Major Tsuji Toyoji, who was later tried for the death of Lee Vui Leong, testified that he was ordered by his commanding officer Lieutenant Onishi.
Lee Vui Leong’s death was one of two tragedies suffered by the Li family following the uprising. His father, Li Tet Phui, was later executed by the Japanese at Petagas. Other members of the family, including Vincent Lee Vui Min, were also tortured. Vincent Lee was given water treatment at Menggatal twice. After being transferred to Jesselton, he was interrogated, beaten, and interned for two and half months.” Chin Shen Kee, the uncle of the two younger Lees was also executed at Petagas.
David Liew Loi Kui was probably arrested around 27 November 1943. He was first interned at the Jesselton Military Police Headquarters at the padang.
His wife was allowed to bring him food. The sight of him must have been grim as severe beatings and torture were administered by the Japanese as part of the interrogation. After Liew was transferred to the Batu Tiga Jail on 3 December 1943, Mrs Liew was forbidden to visit him. She never saw her husband again, and was not aware of his execution at Petagas until after the end of the war.”
After a series of interrogations during which the Japanese tried to break the spirit of those involved or implicated in the uprising, the Japanese finally concluded their investigations in mid-January 1944.
On 20 January 1944 the Japanese decided to mete out punishments to the 300-odd prisoners who were still interned at Batu Tiga. There are conflicting accounts as to whether formal trials were held. The Japanese claimed the trials were presided over by Major General Keishin Managi, who later became the Chief of Staff of the 37th Army/59 whereas none of the other accounts, including Chong Kui Fah’s, mentioned a trial.
On 20 January 1944 Kwok and his men were taken out to the prison compound, where they were photographed in groups of 12 and then made to squat in rows.
In front of the prisoners were five tables, with a Japanese officer seated at each. The officers were judges brought from Kuching. Chong Kui Fah, one of the prisoners, noticed two sets of documents on the desk of the judge seated in the middle.
An interpreter then started reading out names from one of the documents. Among those called were Kong Sze Phui, Li Tet Phui, Charles Peter, Orang Tua Panglima Ali, Orang Tua. Ongga, Sergeant Budh Singh and Jules Stephens. Apparently Kwok’s name was not among them (Chong Kui Fah 1996: 36).
Altogether, 176 names were read out. Those whose names were called were asked to squat at another side; they were separated from the other prisoners and taken back to the prison. These were the men whom the Japanese had decided were the leaders of the guerrillas and those directly involved in the uprising.
The previous day, those prisoners who were called had been forced to sign a document bearing statements which they were not allowed to read; these proved to be confessions of guilt.’’
Albert Kwok
Remains of those executed being exhumed soon after the war and placed in urns.
Before dawn on 21 January 1944, Albert Kwok and those whose names had been called were led out of the prison and put on the goods train parked outside the prison. They were transported under heavy guard to a spot near Petagas where they arrived at around 5.30 a.m.
At the site, the men could see that two large holes had already been dug. The holes measured 60 feet long and 20 feet wide (Chin 2009: 124). According to Oho Masuo, who witnessed the execution, it had rained the previous night and the trenches were half-filled with water (Mochizuki 1995: 60)
FOLLOWING the revolt, Albert Kwok and his party wandered as fugitives for more than a month before finding their way to Penampang on 13 December 1943. They had travelled quite a distance and managed to reach Tambunan and even Ranau, but had to turn back to be nearer the coast as Kwok had not given up hope on the arrival of the American-Filipino guerrillas under Colonel Suarez to reinforce the guerrillas. They first reached Kiansom, Inanam, before crossing over to Penampang
ON HIS side Kwok had about one hundred of his Kinabalu band and could count on nearly twice that number of islanders. Very few of his men had any military training. Peter and Dewa Singh were ex-policemen and Li Tet Phui and Jules Stephens had some part-time experience as soldiers.
The rest were new to the business. No written orders of the force have survived. Very likely there were none. People have taken different views of what Kwok’s plan really was.
Some think he intended to knock out the Japanese in Jesselton, hold the town and rally supporters to his banner, then, with help from the Allies, throw the Japanese out of Sabah
Albert Kwok, a young Chinese, had come to Jesselton (now Kota Kinabalu) in 1940. He was a Sarawak man, born in Kuching, where his father was a dentist. He was trained in the arts of Chinese healing and had been a very successful Chinese doctor in Nanking, Hankow and Canton.
He returned to Borneo in 1940 and made his home with his sister and her husband in Jesselton. Here he carried on his work as a Chinese doctor until his stock of medicines ran out. Kwok was a busy man, full of energy. He always tried to look on the bright side of things and hoped for the best.
He had seen something of the Japanese in China and hated them for their cruelty to his people. Right from the start he made up his mind to oppose the invaders. Kwok heard that in Dutch Borneo (Kalimantan) there was a party of Dutch, British and Americans still holding out in a place called Long Nawan. In February 1942 he tried to make his way there through Pensiangan but found when he got to the Sabah border it was firmly held by Japanese.
He could go no further because the rivers were carefully controlled. He therefore returned to Jesselton. It was well he did so because in August of that year the Japanese suddenly fell upon the settlement at Long Nawan and killed everyone they – found — men, women and children.
Not long after Kwok’s return from Pensiangan the Japanese sent out an order; It was dated June 13th, 1942 and said, amongst other things, ‘Let not the Chinese forget that the power of seizing them and putting them to death rests with one decision of the Japanese High Command.’ By ‘High Command’ they meant the command in Borneo, not in Tokyo