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On 23rd May 2022, the Daily Express banner-headlined “250,000 jobless youths seen” by 2024. As stated in this article, Sabah’s unemployment is about three times higher than national average. This is very serious. The reality is even more frightening when added to this context  [a] The unemployed are Sabahan youths, their future is Sabah’s destiny, potentially the most productive. Ignominious and very bad for the economy.  [b] Can be very damaging psychologically and socially for them to start life being unemployed.  [c] This 250,000 jobless youth will [if...

I am grateful for the feedback to my article last Sunday “Coming together cos they love Sabah” in the Sunday Express on 15 May 2022. Dominating these comments are  [a] Sabahans’ keen desire for politicians to get down to do real work, i.e., solve Sabah’s economic problems.  [b] Sabah politicians should unite to protect Sabah’s interest

It was a beautiful dream come true. Hajiji’s inclusiveness is bearing fruit where it is most important at the political level. Heartening to see that a number of opposition political leaders have accepted Hajiji’s invitation to attend the Majlis Ramah Mesra Aidilfitri at SICC on 7 May 2022. It was a good start

Sabahans have already been suffering from higher prices more than the rest of Malaysia for decades for many well-known reasons. We can take comfort that the Russian/Ukraine war is many thousands of miles away in Europe.  But Sabah, like the rest of the world cannot escape from its very serious economic fallouts, the hyper-inflation induced by a declining, increasingly irresponsible and desperate-USA

Musa had a brilliant vision for POIC when he launched it in 2005. POIC was destined to cater for the downstream industry for the rapidly growing oil palm plantations in the East Coast where most of Sabah”s oil palm plantations are located. He has provided POIC with a total of 5,000 acres as he was also eyeing the vast area of Kalimantan that was being developed with large scale oil palm. He was right.  Today, Kalimantan has achieved planting of at least 13 million hectares in 2020. More hectares coming! To put Musa”s vision in today”s context, Sabah has 1.7 million hecta...