KUALA LUMPUR: The Meteorological Department has forecast intermittent to moderate rain from Wednesday to Saturday in Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang and up to Friday in Sabah.more...
Rain Forecast For Sabah
KUALA LUMPUR: The Meteorological Department has forecast intermittent to moderate rain from Wednesday to Saturday in Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang and up to Friday in Sabah.more...
An Indian Herb Boosts Sabah Farming
Many Malaysians love Moringa Oleifara or Murungai in Tamil. The long greenish yellow pods, known as “drumsticks”, with pea-like seeds, are usually cooked into a nutritious spicy curry. But the tree vegetable has more than just culinary delightsmore...
Air Travel Booms In Sabah, Borneo
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Kota Kinabalu, Sabah: The Destination 2011
Kota Kinabalu is fast becoming the hottest South East Asian destination for Australian travellers. This leap in visitor numbers is attributed to the addition of several direct flights out of Australian capital cities, making this area easier to access than ever before.more...
Maswings Offer Deals For Sabah & Sarawak
MASWINGS is offering super low online deals from RM25 for travels within Sarawak and Sabah from Jan 1 to Jan 11. The travel time is between Jan 3 and April 30.more...
Extended KKIA Ready In January 2011
Kota Kinabalu: The extended Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA) terminal is expected to be fully-operational by end of January, leaving only works on the runway to be completed.more...
More Korean Speaking Guides In Sabah
KOTA KINABALU: The State Government will come out with a solution soon to overcome the shortage of tourist guides who can communicate in Korean in Sabah.more...
Battle For the Skies Begins In Sabah
Kota Kinabalu: Firefly's inaugural service between here and Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 15 offers an additional choice of affordable air travel between East and West Malaysia and also more flights between both destinations if all the various airlines' services on the route are taken into account.more...
International Affordable School in Sabah
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Preserving Forests To Fight Global Warming
DEEP in the flooded jungles of southern Borneo, muddy peat oozes underfoot like jello, threatening to consume anyone who tries to walk even a few yards into the thick, steaming forest.more...
Breaking Out Of Poverty Trap
A QUIET revolution of sorts is underway among a small number of farmers and smallholders in Lundu and Mambong.
Edible Birds’ Nests
SWIFLET nests which are harvested from caves are naturally nourished with iron and minerals. For those who have a gastronomic liking for birds’ nest, this piece of information may be of interest.more...
Strong Winds & Choppy Seas Warning
KUALA LUMPUR: The strongs winds and choppy seas off Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang are forecast to persist till Wednesday.
Artificial Reefs Spell Riches From The Sea
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Royal Holland Group Taps Sabah’s Growth
Kuala Lumpur: The Royal Holland Group (RHG), a maritime electronics communications and navigation specialist, may open an office in Sabah to tap the state's impending business growth.more...
Sabah Produces 25% Of The Nation’s Oil
Kota Kinabalu: Sabah contributed more than quarter of the nation's crude oil last year.Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Musa Aman said the State chipped in about 26.9 per cent of the country's overall crude oil output, which totaled more than 637,000 drums daily.
Tuberculosis Research Centre In UMS
Kota Kinabalu: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) and the Sabah Health Department have forged a partnership with a Korean non-governmental organisation (NGO) to bring down the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in the State.more...
Australia Capitalising On KK-Perth Flights
Kota Kinabalu: Australian High Commissioner Miles Kupa said the High Commission was in the dark on the precise trade value between Sabah and Australia because the statistics have been very difficult to analyse although the national figure is RM42 billion.more...
Malaysia: Robust Economy For 2011
KUCHING: In the near term, Malaysia’s growth trajectory will hinge on two major factors – namely the global economic development and the strength of private consumption in supporting domestic demand.According to Malaysian Rating Corporation Bhd (MARC), Malaysia’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2011 is anticipated to normalise but remain higher than its long term trend of 4.5 per cent to five per cent.more...
Sabah: Own Oil & Gas Training Centre
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah can expect to have Institut Teknologi Petroleum Petronas (Instep) within two years, Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said. Announcing this yesterday, Musa said the educational facility would be built in Kimanis.more...
INTI Offers Advanced Diploma In Accounting
KUCHING: The TAFE New South Wales (NSW) Advanced Diploma of Accounting Programme is now available at Inti.more...
Unleashing Selangau’s Tourism Potential
SELANGAU: Selangau, somehow an unfamiliar town to most Sarawakians, actually has its own little secret which needs to be explored, said Selangau Kapitan Tiang Kwong Hui.more...
PESAKA: Sabah’s Cultural Festival
The Keriam Malay Association's (PESAKA) Cultural Club, which is represent- ing Brunei at the BIMP-EAGA Cultural Festival in Tawau, Sabah, left the Sultanate yesterday. The Brunei delegation for the three-day event, which takes place between January 14 and 16, includes 20 people comprising more....
NGO Claims Illegal Logging Near Masilau
NABAWAN: President Sakag Sabah, Haji Masmin Kadad, claimed that massive logging was going on in forest reserves, including near Batu Punggul, and want especially Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) to investigate.more...
BKI-PER Route Boosts Sabah Tourism
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah looks forward to a surge in tourist arrivals with Malaysia Airline’s (MAS) newly-launched Kota Kinabalu-Perth route.more...
Firefly Promotion For Sabah & Sarawak
KUCHING: From now until January 16, 2011, Fly Firefly Sdn Bhd (Firefly) is offering customers flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) to Kuching or Kota Kinabalu a one way all-in price of RM59.more...
Riverine Clinics For The Interior In Sabah
KOTA KINABALU: Remote villages situated along rivers in Sabah may soon enjoy regular medical and health services with the introduction of riverine clinics.more...
Good Air Connectivity To Lure Tourists
SIBU: It is necessary to have better air connectivity to better promote the ‘treasures’ of Rajang River to the outside world.more...
RM67 Billion For 19 Entry Point Projects
PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak yesterday announced 19 more Entry Point Projects (EPPs) under the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP).He said the projects would generate almost RM67 billion in investments, RM36 billion in gross national income and create 35,000 new jobs.
POIC Sabah Poised To Push Biomass Sector
KOTA KINABALU: State-owned POIC (Palm Oil Industrial Cluster) Sabah Sdn Bhd is poised to further push up the development of biomass industry in the state soon.more...
Review Tender In Harvesting Birds’ Nests
SUKAU: The State Government should consider reviewing the tender system of harvesting bird nests in Gomantong Cave for the benefit of the local residents and contractors.more...
Sabah Leads The Green Change
A Boeing 747 flying from London to Kota Kinabalu, a distance of 11,300km (7,000 miles), emits about three tonnes of carbon dioxide. Every year, 600m tonnes of CO2 are released into the atmosphere as 16,000 commercial aircraft fly passengers around the world for business and pleasure. In 10 years, air travel will be the single biggest contributor to global warming, according to environmentalists. And that is why Sabah has taken the lead in “sustainable tourism” to help stop temperatures from rising.more...
God Save The Wildlman Of BORNEO
As a lawyer, Masidi Manjun couldn’t have made a stronger case against relocating Sabah’s endangered orang-utans to the peninsula to entertain tourists. Why, he asks, didn’t God put them there in the first place? The last 45,000 of the primates are found only on Borneo island, the world’s third largest, and the Indonesian Sumatra province. That’s why they have been nicknamed The Wildman of Borneo. But 11,000 of the pongo pygmaeus morio are in Sabah. In the 1980s, there were more than 20,000 of them, but down from 500,000 a century ago. “The state government's stand is very clear,” says the minister of tourism, culture and environment. “We will not relocate our orang-utans.”more....
Coal Plant In Sabah Violates Clean Power
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22 — An environmental group today accused the federal government of violating its commitment to clean energy in pushing through plans to build a coal plant in Sabah. more...
Rare Bay Cat In Pulong Tau National Park
KUCHING: One of the rarest cats in the world, the Bornean bay cat (Catopuma badia) has been recorded in Pulong Tau National Park (PTNP)’s extended areas of Batu Lawi and Long Repung in the state’s northern region.more...
World Tourism Conference In Sabah
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Kinabalu Biodiversity Expo 2010
Opening Ceremony of the Kinabalu Biodiversity Expo 2010 was officially opened by YB Datuk Ellron Angin, the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Tourism Culture and Environment. " I believed the support of everyone will ensure that Kinabalu Park will remain a World Heritage" was quoted in his opening speech during the ceremony.more...
The ‘Unsung Heros’ Of Sabah Parks
Kinahim Sampang, 47, recalls the day when the Kinabalu Park, home to Malaysia’s tallest Mount Kinabalu, caught fire during a drought 12 years ago. It took her and her colleagues three weeks to stop the fire from killing more wild plants and animals. Lack of water compounded the difficulty. “With our bare hands we cleared dry leaves and branches from the park to stop the fire,” she says.more...
Exotic Dishes Allowed In Sabah
KOTA KINABALU: With more visitors in major towns of Sabah searching for exotic local dishes, the question of whether such wildlife meat is officially allowed to be served is often asked.more...
Malaysia Dumps Sabah Coal-Fired Plant
Malaysia has scrapped plans for a controversial 1.3-billion-ringgit ($422m) 300-megawatt coal-fired power station in the east coast of Sabah fearing it could destroy its exotic jungles, wildlife, corals and other marine life, Sabah chief minister Musa Aman announced today.more..
The Year Of The Sprightly Rabbit
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A New Broom Sweeps Clean
His first response as the new mayor of Kota Kinabalu was: “I’m a mayor for all people.” Abidin Madingkir, 57, knows that he has a formidable task in managing a capital city that has grown from a small town of 20,000 to a sprawling metropolis of slightly more than half a million over the last 50 years. He knows that his city hall, in dealing with the people, must live up to their expectations.more...
IT Courses For Sabahans
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Sabahan Duo Cycle Their Way Into Records Book
Kota Kinabalu: Sabahan triathletes, Stephanie Chok and Mohamad Heidilee@ Dino, created history when their 26-day cross-country cycling journey ended here, Monday.
All Districts Placed On Flood Alert
Tawau: Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman has directed all districts in Sabah to be placed on alert and disaster operation rooms to be activated.more...
SPCA KK To Manage DBKK’s Pound Soon
THE Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is an international network of animal welfare charity groups whose operations include protecting and providing shelter to animals in danger.more...
KK-B’fort Rail Service Resumes Feb. 21st
Kota Kinabalu: The rail service between here and Beaufort which has been disrupted for quite sometime for improvement works on the tracks will fully resume on Feb. 21.more....
Runway Upgrading Works Ready By Next Feb 2011
Kota Kinabalu: The rail service between here and Beaufort which has been disrupted for quite sometime for improvement works on the tracks will fully resume on Feb. 21.more...
Tsunami Fears For Tawau Coastal Folks
Tawau: Hundreds of residents living by the seaside were alarmed after learning about an underwater tremor at Sulawesi Sea, Thursday night.more...
Befrienders KK Needs More Volunteers
Kota Kinabalu: Befrienders Kota Kinabalu (KK) is calling for more volunteers to help in efforts to reach out to the troubled and depressed, especially youths, round-the-clock.more...
