POLITICAL dating is abuzz in Sabah. Politicians from either side of the divide are overtly or covertly meeting each other for possible tie-ups ahead of the state polls due anytime before September 2025.
Their encounter with their Majesties may have been fleeting but Sabahans and Sarawakians put up the best unscripted welcome for the Royal Family during the Kembara Kenali Borneo tour.
Sabah MACC director S. Karunanithy (second from right) presenting food assistance to one of the qualified recipients from SJA, Raphiel Pinus, who lost his job following the closure of a local English newspaper. SJA president Datuk Muguntan Vanar (left) looks on.
KOTA KINABALU: The Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), through its Yayasan Prihatin initiative, has extended food basket assistance to media practitioners badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic here.
This included former employees of a local English newspaper that shuttered in December 2020.
Sabah MACC director S. Karunanithy handed over the food aid to two representatives from the 22 qualified recipients who are members of the Sabah Journalists Association (SJA) and Kota Kinabalu Journalists Association (KKJA) on Saturday (Feb 6).
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.