IT’S back to original call as a travel writer – a roving reporter, venturing into the remotest parts of Sabah and bring back stories to city folks.
The challenge is great, the satisfaction immense. You can be in back-breaking 4WD over a logging road for hours without seeing any sign of civilisation, but suddenly a beautiful jungle-clad valley village popped up in front of your eyes!
In 1986, that was my appointment in old Sabah Times – everywhere I went, pristine rivers, intact forests, true culture inspired me: pure tea-leaf color water roared down multiple rapids over the Padas river, crystal clear Sapulut, Danum, Long Pasia and Segama rivers where you could see schools of big fish beside your raft. Even Kinabatangan river was only light yellow, intact forest canopies and massive trees soared around Batu Pungul
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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.