SANDAKAN: Sandakan MP Vivian Wong Shir Yee has been urged to raise the lack of allocation for her constituency during the Budget 2026 debate after it was claimed that it was left out in the Budget 2026. Former deputy chief minister Datuk Raymond Tan Shu Kiah said Sandakan, the second largest city in Sabah, has once again...
KOTA KINABALU: The restoration works for the 275kV Kolopis-Segaliud transmission line, whose tower was toppled in a landslide last week, have been successfully completed with a second 'Emergency Restoration System' (ERS) tower erected. The completion of the second tower link at the landslip area for the West Coast to East Coast power grid is expected to...
KOTA KINABALU: A woman pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution after she was caught in the act during a police raid in Sandakan. The woman, 26, was arrested along with her "agent" - an Indonesian woman named Lely Fiter, 50 - after police raided a premises in Taman Mawar around 3.30pm on July 29. According to the facts...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) has issued an advisory on a tropical depression detected at a latitude 15.0 north and longitude 127.3 east, approximately 420 km northeast of Samar Island, Philippines. In a statement on Thursday (July 17), MetMalaysia said the storm was moving west-northwest at a speed of 15 km/h with a maximum...
SANDAKAN: Kampung Sim Sim in Sandakan, one of Malaysia’s oldest water villages, is getting a lifeline after years of pollution. This week, the Federal Government allocated RM50,000 to support coastal and environmental cleanup efforts in the historic settlement, home to more than 7,000 residents and dating back to 1879. Located on the east coast of Sabah, Sandakan...
SANDAKAN: Historical tourism in Sandakan is set to receive a major boost with the planned establishment of the Martin and Osa Johnson Gallery at the vacant PWD 2002 Building, located near the iconic Agnes Keith House. State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Christina Liew said the new gallery would enrich the town’s heritage offerings...
SANDAKAN: Eleven individuals, comprising four men and seven women, pleaded not guilty in the Sandakan Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday to charges connected to an alleged fake loan scheme. The accused, aged between 19 and 33, faced charges in two separate cases involving online scams conducted at different locations in Sandakan. In the first case, Syahrizal Mohd Zaini,...
KOTA KINABALU: The cultural and lion dance community in Sabah is mourning the loss of 24-year-old Hambali Latip from the Leong Sin Sports Association Sandakan, who died on Thursday (May 1) after a training accident left him in a coma for five months. Hambali, who joined the association in 2019 and served as the tail performer...
KOTA KINABALU: Debutant teams from the United Arab Emirates and China triumph at the KLK Borneo Sevens 2025, clinching both men’s and women’s titles at the Eagles Rugby Club in Sandakan on Sunday (April 20). Shaheen 7s from the UAE narrowly defeated host favourites Borneo Eagles 22-19 in a thrilling men’s final, while Hua Gan Guo...
KOTA KINABALU: A lorry driver was sentenced by the Sandakan Sessions Court on Tuesday (Nov 12) to a total of 14 years in jail and two strokes of the cane for raping his underage girlfriend. Judge Zaini Fishir @ Fisal meted the sentence to Mohd Zaman Kamrud Zaman, 20, after he pleaded guilty to two counts...
