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Sabah coast remains safe after deep offshore earthquake

Ir. Ts. Tan KJ... the quake poses no risk to shoreline or coastal infrastructure. KOTA KINABALU : - Sabah’s coastline remains stable and safe...

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GE17: The constituencies and challengers

By: Datuk Teddy Chin HERE is my constituency-by-constituency analysis of the Sabah election. There were 25 Nomination Centers, one for each of the Parliamentary constituency. I will go by the MP seats starting from the North in Kudat. Some have 2 State seats under them, some 3, some even 4. Due to space constraint, I can’t mention all the candidates as there are nearly 600 of them. P stands for Parliament while N stands for State seats. Here goes: P.167 Kudat - N.01 Banggi This is a 12-cornered fight, rather large for an island which in the past was the stronghold of the Tun Mustapha family. The incumbent is Datuk Mohammad Mohamarin of GRS. He won the seat on a Warisan ticket in...

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WHAT THE PORK? – ROCKY BRU

By Rocky Bru Datuk Ahirudin Attan also known as Rocky Bru , a Malaysian journalist and blogger, reflects on a surprise warning about Malaysia’s pork import ban, tracing its public health roots and the politics of pig farming through a seasoned traveller’s lens. Did you know that it is illegal to bring in pork and pork-based products into Malaysia at the KL International Airport?  WELL, up till yesterday ( Wednesday 16)  we were ignorant. So when the pre-landing announcement on flight MH0749 from Danang said so, we looked at each other, startled. Since when? The last time we came back through KLIA was a month ago, from a mountaineering trip in Nepal. We were flying Batik Air, and there was...

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