Plants and creepers growing on the facade of the Malaysian Industrial Court Building.
IT HAS been weeks since the historical giant clock at the Sultan Abdul Samad building in Jalan Raja, Kuala Lumpur stopped ticking.
Dubbed Malaysia’s own Big Ben, no one knows exactly when it stopped but this iconic symbol has been a silent witness to many memorable moments of the country’s history, including the Federation of Malaya’s independence from the British Empire on Aug 31, 1957 as well as the Japanese Occupation of Malaya in 1941.
The fact that the clock stopped working and its keepers being unable to carry out maintenance work during the pandemic shows the wider impact of the city’s battle against Covid-19.
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Since the founding of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963, the nation’s politicians have grappled with the relationship between Sabah and Sarawak, the two states on the island of Borneo, with the federal government in Kuala Lumpur. At the heart of this issue is the Malaysia Agreement of 1963, or MA63 for short, which set the terms under which Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore would come together with Malaya to form the Federation. (Singapore would later leave in 1965.)
In the decades since, the autonomy granted to these regions by MA63 has been slowly diluted, creating resentments about overbearing federal authority. Since the shock election victory of the opposition Pakatan Harapan coalition in 2018, however, the cause of autonomy for Sabah and Sarawak is once again on the agenda, and gaining momentum.
(pic) died on Saturday at the age of 85.
The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM), in a statement Sunday, described the demise of Lim as a great loss to the swimming fraternity in Malaysia and expressed their deepest condolences to his family members.
“The late Lim Heng Chek was a great athlete who had participated in all four major multi-sport Games under the jurisdiction of Federation of Malaya Olympic Council (FMOC), namely the Olympic Games, British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and South-East Asian Peninsular (Seap) Games,” OCM said in a statement posted on their Facebook page.
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Lim was a member of the contingent of the Federation of Malaya and made his Olympic debut at the 16th Olympic Games in Melbourne 1956, where he participated in the men’s 100m backstroke event and clocked 1:12.4s.
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Sabah Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku (STAR) president Datuk Jeffrey Kitingan speaks during a press conference in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah September 22, 2020. Picture by Firdaus Latif
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KOTA KINABALU, May 15 The new Federal Constitution mentioned by Sabah Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku (STAR) president Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan in an online public forum is just a history-based academic summary for thought input to policy makers in Malaysia.
Karambunai Division STAR head Kapitan Stephen Teo said Dr Jeffrey issued a view based on academic questions recorded in a video to be shared in the forum as a sharing of minds among the participants.