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...
By C C PungJustice of Peace
THE night stalls at the Segama Conplex has been a iconic feature of Kota Kinabalu City for decades.
It was a favourite haunt for city folks for fruits and hawker good. It has lately been transformed.
I popped by hoping to catch some heightened activities typical of the area as the Chinese New Year approaches.
Sitting down for a plate of fried carrot by the same gentleman who's been doing it at the same spot all these years, I jobserved wide-eyed Chinese tourists haggling over durian prices with local vendors exhibiting a fairly decent command of Mandarin.
And when a deal was struck, buyers and sellers joined in a hilarious chorus of wordless cheers...