Former State Secretary Tan Sri Simon Sipaun (inset) said Sabah will have fared better, including in its dealings with the Federal Government, if the Double Six tragedy that wiped out five of Sabah’s top leaders, along with six others, did not happen on June 6, 1976
KOTA KINABALU: Toh Puan Rahimah Stephens, the widow of Sabah's first chief minister Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens, has passed away on Monday (March14). She was 91.
Published on: Sunday, May 09, 2021
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Our Page 3 report on April 29.
I was taken aback and surprised that there was an “outcry” on an action to move DAP and Warisan replicas (symbols) in Sandakan by the Sandakan Municipal Council.
Leading this “outcry” was acting Sabah DAP Chairman and Tanjong Papat Assemblyman Datuk Frankie Poon.
Of all people, surely as a seasoned politician Poon must know that it would have been asking for the moon to leave these election symbols that have been displayed on ballot papers as a continuous memorial in Sandakan?
Let’s be objective about this. What would and should be regarded as a memorial to the people of Sandakan and to the rest of the people in Sabah ?
Published on: Sunday, January 03, 2021
By: Kan Yaw Chong
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New Sabah Times printing press-cum-editorial office.
IT NEVER crossed my mind to write this Special Report in the Daily Express. Last week, Editor-in-Chief, James Sarda, approached me and said: “Can you write something on Sabah Times – since you once worked there for many years?”
But obviously, what triggered this unusual story idea had to be a profoundly sad end of Sabah Times – Sabah’s first English daily closing for good on Dec 31, 2020 – 66 years after it was first founded by the late Tan Sri Yeh Pao Tzu who was also the founder of Daily Express in 1963.