Essence of Borneo

Chin Teck Ming KOTA KINABALU: Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) supreme council member Chin Tek Ming supported the call for Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Richard Malanjun to be made the next Chief Judge of Malaysia. “I fully support this proposal because Sabah never given a chance to be appointed as Chief Justice since 1963. It is high time for the federal government to show Malaysia particularly Sabah that Sabahan also can hold that position,” said Chin who is also PBS Luyang division chief. Before this, he said Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail became the first Sabahan to hold the position of the Attorney-General of Malaysia from 2002 to 2015. Accord ing to Chin who is also a practising lawyer that status of the Chief Judge of Malaya and Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawa k are actually of equal standing under the Federal Constitution which is number three in the rung. “I think it is high time we correct the standing because the Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak was put as number...

Fatimah (tiga dari kanan) menerima cenderamata daripada Samsiah sambil diperhatikan oleh guru-guru penasihat di majlis itu KOTA KINABALU: Program Kem Waja Diri Unit Beruniform dapat meningkatkan keyakinan diri pelajar dan ilmu kepimpinan dalam organisasi, kata Naib Ketua UMNO Bahagian Kota Kinabalu, Datuk Fatimah Shara Ahmad Noor. Katanya, program itu juga dapat membantu para pelajar membina jati diri dan berdikari mengurus diri. “Program ini juga memberi latihan stamina diri  dan fizikal pelajar di dalam menempuh cabaran hidup melalui aktiviti yang diadakan”, katanya. Fatimah yang juga Yang di-Pertua Persatuan Ibu Bapa dan Guru-Guru (PIBG) Maktab Sabah berkata demikian pada majlis penutupan Kem Waja Diri Unit Beruniform Sesi 2016 sekolah itu, semalam. Turut hadir di majlis itu ialah Penolong Kanan Pentadbiran Maktab Sabah, Puan Samsiah Almalek, Penolong Kanan Kokurikulum, Encik Abdul Jaid Paki dan Kem Komandan Kem Waja Diri, Cik Surilla Stimol. Katanya, pelajar mer...

Some of the vegetables available MOST of us are health conscious and wants to consume good fresh food untainted by herbicide and pesticide. We think longingly of the olden days when manure was very natural to say the least. However it later became easier to just buy the fertilizers and spread them over our vegetable patches. We have since learned that the best vegetables and potatoes are not necessarily the largest and the juiciest but those that are grown naturally, not sprayed by pesticides or fertilised by chemical-based fertilisers.  Those of us who wants to consume  Chemical free vegetables and potatoes can now purchase them  from  a farmer's store located at Lot 15, Ground Floor at Bornion Centre, Luyang. The store which opened officially for business on Oct 27 welcomes consumers daily from 7am to 4pm, except on Wednesday. Spokesman for the store, Norazman Jamdin said the vegetables are acquired from contract farmers who apply ...

Yahya (bersongkok) melancarkan Sistem ICT yang dibangunkan oleh MAFI sambil diperhatikan oleh Ahmad Awang Hashim (dua dari kanan) dan Mingu (kanan) di majlis itu.   KOTA KINABALU: Timbalan Ketua Menteri, Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Yahya Hussin telah merasmikan Seminar ICT 2016 Kementerian Pertanian dan Industri Makanan Sabah (MAFI) dan jabatan sert agensi dibawahnya di Dewan Serbaguna Wisma Pertanian Sabah Kota Kinabalu, hari ini. Seminar sehari itu adalah anjuran bersama MAFI dan Jabatan Perkhidmatan Komputer Negeri Sabah. Turut hadir ialah Pengerusi Lembaga Industri Getah Negeri Sabah (LIGS) Datuk Rubin Balang, Pengerusi Ko-Nelayan, Datuk Haji Mijul Unaini, Setiausaha Tetap Kementerian, Encik Ahmad Awang Hashim, Pengerah Jabatan Perkhidmatan Komputer Negeri, Dr Haji Mingu Haji Jumaan, Timbalan Setiausaha Tetap MAFI, Encik KZulkifli Harrith dan ketua-ketua jabatan serta agensi dibawah MAFI. Yahya yang juga Menteri Pertanian dan Industri Makanan Negeri turut melancarkan sis...

Stanley Donal KOTA KINABALU: Persatuan Olahraga Matunggong (POM) dengan kerjasama Persatuan Momogun Rungus Sabah (SAMORA) akan menganjurkan Larian 15km-Magahauthon 2016-Eco Run pada 23 Oktober 2016 ini di perkarangan Puruvan Square, Matunggong. Pengerusi Pelaksana Magahauthon 2016- Eco Run, Stanley Donal berkata, peserta larian akan dilepaskan oleh Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Matunggong, YB Dato’ Jelani Hamdan yang juga Presiden SAMORA bermula jam 6 pagi. Katanya, Larian ini agak berbeza dengan larian-larian yang lain kerana akan merentasi perkampungan, hutan dan Gunung Gumantong. “Larian ini lebih bersifat 'Eco Run'. Bermula dari Puruvan Square-Kg Sumangkap-Gumantong dan kembali semula ke Puruvan Square sejauh 15 km”, katanya dalam satu kenyataan di sini, hari ini. Stanley berkata, Larian itu terbahagi kepada kategori lelaki dan wanita terbuka (mens & women open) dan kategori veteran lelaki dan wanita (veteren men & women) yang masing-masing mena...

Nurdin (kiri) bersama pasukan futsal lelaki Pemadam Sabah yang menang tempat ketiga Kejohanan Futsal Terbuka UTM-PEMADAM di Johor, semalam. KOTA KINABALU: Pasukan Futsal Lelaki dan Perempuan Pemadam Sabah berjaya memenangi tempat ketiga dalam Kejohanan Futsal Terbuka UTM-Pemadam yang diadakan di Indahpura Sports City KulaiJaya, Johor. Pasukan futsal lelaki Pemadam Sabah berjaya menewaskan Alanis FC  dari Johor pada pertandingan akhir semalam untuk memenangi tempat ketiga. Johan dan naib johan masing-masing dimemangi oleh ZM FT dari Kuala Lumpur dan Tampoi FC dari Johor ZM menerima hadiah wang tunai RM2,500 dan medal. Tampoi FC dan Pemadam Sabah masing-masing menerima hadiah wang tunai RM1000 dan RM750 serta medal. Sementara dalam kategori wanita, pasukan futsal Pemadam Sabah berjaya menewaskan pasukan Southern Champ dari Johor dalam perlawanan akhir untuk memenangi hadiah wang tunai RM400 dan medal. Sementara Johan dan Naib Johan masing-masing disandang oleh Pemadam Kuala Lump...

The winners of the event left to right-John, Wincentbert, Safrey, Sandi, Viola and Tahira KOTA KINABALU: The 29th Mt Kinabalu International Climbathon held at the Kinabalu Park in Kundasang Ranau, saw participation from 18 countries, with the bulk being from Malaysia at 91 participants. The rest were from Singapore, four, three each from the United States, the Philippines and Hong Kong. There were two each from Brunei, France, Japan and Kenya, while one participant  from each of the countries Australia, Finland, Britain, Indonesia, Mexico, Spain, Taiwan and Tunisia.  Malaysia won the Elite Men category with locals Safrey Sumping, who clocked in at at 2.21.33 closely followed by Wincentbert Latius 2.22.58. Kenyan John Kipkorir Rutto of Kenya closed in at 2.28.23. Meanwhile in the Women Elite Category, Sandi Menchi Catlona Abahan of the Philippines won the race at 2.58.48, followed by Kenyan Viola Jepchirchir Kimeli at 3.11.42. Mala...

KOTA KINABALU: Timbalan Ketua Menteri, Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Yahya Hussin (duduk, tengah) telah menerima kunjungan hormat daripada Ahli Jawatankuasa Pelaksana Pesta Kubis Sabah 2016 di pejabatnya di Wisma Pertanian Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, hari ini. Kunjungan itu diketuai oleh Pengerusi Jawatankuasa itu, Encik Wasry Tarijin (duduk, 2 dari kiri) Turut hadir ialah Setiausaha Politik Yahya, Encik Ewon Benedick (duduk, kiri). Yahya yang juga Menteri Pertanian dan Industri Makanan Negeri telah diberi taklimat mengenai sambutan Pesta Kubis yang akan diadakan pada awal bulan Disember 2016 oleh Wasry dan jawatankuasanya. Yahya turut mencadangkan agar Menteri Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani Malaysia dijemput bagi merasmikan Pesta Kubis Sabah 2016.-AG

Some of the revellers during the event KOTA KINABALU: The Social Media, Whatsapp and other mode of communications are the main form of communications for most people in this days and age. In fact, it has a positive impact for people who have been separated from their friends and families through the years. It has not only enable them to become closer, but also enabled them to foster friendship and rapport among them. Some of them who have been friends in their childhood years had rekindled their friendship. Through this communications, some 40 baby boomers celebrated life and living recently by coming together in their best traditional dress. The event organised by a group of childhood friends from Kampung Bambangan Inanam, aimed to foster friendship and rapport among the group of people while ensuring that language and tradition would not be forgotten.   The group of people who were in contact through the social media, Whatsapp, also hoped to produce excerpts of...

Fatimah (right) receiving a memento from a Sunner Executive Gary Chia KOTA KINABALU: Being an avid traveller, I love to land in new airports as they always have their own identity. It is also because I am very happy to land on Terra firma. However, every time I land on an airport I like to contact my friends and family, just to tell them that I reached my destination and that I am  safe and fine. I take it for granted that they might want to know. However I am often disappointed at airports as the WiFi are not always good. SMS are not always conducive too as it is very expensive to send them, even in the nearest country like Singapore. Travellers to Sabah via Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA) are assured that they will not have a problem as the Sunner Group have installed their Sunner WiFi Hotspot there. It is a free based WiFi solution that will help indoor venues, to provide their visitors will immediate WiFi hotspot service. Entrepreneur Datuk Fatimah Shara Ahm...

Colourful Bajau Horsemen- Pic Sabah Tourism KOTA KINABALU: The Tamu or traditional market is one of the people's unique culture seen in Sabah. This event held every ten days or weekly, depending on the districts, is where the Kadazandusun people come together to sell their farm produce. Their farm produce in the olden days would usually be vegetables garnered from the jungle and rice as well as rattan and resins. Nowadays some of those produce can still be acquired including yams, potatoes, maize, riverine fish and vegetables, among many others. However in the tamu ground more items are being sold such as plastic wares, clothes, shoes, kitchen utensils and even livestock such as chicken and ducklings. In some places like Kota Belud, they even sell cows and buffaloes. Speaking of Kota Belud, on Oct 22 to 23, a tamu besar will be held there, which actually means Grand Tamu. This annual event is the biggest traditional tamu in the State, It is an event not to be missed as ther...

KOTA KINABALU: Menteri Pembangunan Masyarakat dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna, Datuk Hajah Jainab Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Ahmad Ayid (empat dari kiri) menyaksikan penyerahan tiket tajaan daripada Pemangku Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif MASWings, Encik Aminuddin Zakaria (tiga dari kiri) kepada Pengarah Yayasan Dakwah Islamiah Malaysia (YADIM) Sabah, Haji Samin Ongki (empat dari kanan) bagi Program Penerbangan Prihatin YADIM-MASwings 2016 di pejabat syarikat penerbangan itu di Kota Kinabalu. MasWing menaja seramai 40 orang peserta terdiri daripada anak-anak yatim daripada rumah-rumah anak yatim terpilih bagi program penerbangan daripada Kota Kinabalu ke Miri bermula esok. Jainab berkata, Kerajaan Negeri menyambut baik program penerbangan prihatin itu selaras dengan tanggungjawab sosial korporat (CSR) MASwings untuk rakyat Sabah khususnya golongan yang kurang bernasib baik.-AG