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January 27, 2012

Polls: BN in full swing

SIGNS are clearly on the wall. Parties within the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) are taking full advantage of the Chinese New Year (CNY) festive occasion to go on full swing in its campaign to win the hearts and minds of the people in the run-up to the 13th general elections due anytime now.

January 19, 2012

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Lunar Water Dragon Year

AFTER weeks of hectic preparation, Chinese families on Borneo and elsewhere in the world are now eagerly awaiting the traditional reunion banquet on the eve of the Lunar New Year on Sunday, Jan 22 when the Rabbit would humbly make way for the entry of the Dragon at the stroke of midnight.

January 15, 2012

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Bornean Cat at Kelabit Highlands

LATEST photographs of a bay cat (Pardofelis badia), also known as Bornean Cat, captured by a new camera trap study in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak have added to the little knowledge on this wild cat that is endemic to the island of Borneo.

December 28, 2011

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666 tragedy verdict Feb 29

THE High Court in Kota Kinabalu has heard a case brought by Tan Sri Harris Salleh against Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president Datuk Yong Teck Lee and the party for allegedly insinuating that the former was involved in causing the plane crash on June 6, 1976.

January 26, 2012

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Firework blows off man’s head

IN a horrifying incident on the first day of the Lunar Dragon Year (Jan 23), a newly married man, By Shaow Yong, 26, was instantly killed in Kota Kinabalu after a malfunctioned firework suddenly exploded in his face when he went to check it.

January 20, 2012

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Mother to become star witness

LATEST development indicates that the 44-year-old mother of the 17-year-old youth who is suspected of killing four persons in a family at RTM Road in Sibu on January 3 will become a key witness in the murder case that rocked this town by the side of Rejang, the longest river in Sarawak.

January 18, 2012

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Chinese set to ‘Kuo Nien’

LEGEND has it that in ancient time in China, a very fierce and mysterious monster, known as ‘Nien’, would come round during the start of the Lunar New Year to attack the villages.

January 13, 2012

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Release of ‘Tony’ the whale

BARELY 36 hours after its dramatic rescue volunteers completed the last stage of “Operation Free Tony” to release a stranded pygmy killer whale into the South China Sea. As the sun set over the Tanjung Aru beach, the mammal fondly called Tony by its rescuers was placed on a boat headed for the open sea.

January 13, 2012

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Rescue & Release of ‘Tony’ the whale

ABOUT 40 volunteers rendered help to keep a stranded male pygmy killer whale afloat and alive at Tanjung Aru Beach near the City of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. They successfully guided and released it into the sea at 5.10pm Jan 11 2012, after it showed signs of activeness.

January 12, 2012

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Sibu residents live in fear

Four murder cases, nine killed past four months. JUST two days after the burial of four members of a family killed at their RTM Road home, yet another cold blooded murder occurred in Sibu in broad daylight yesterday Jan 11, causing residents in this riverside and flood-prone city to live in fear for their safety.

January 8, 2012

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Jeffrey: Fantasy and Reality

HARVAAD graduate Datuk Jeffrey Gapari Kitingan, president of the United Borneo Front (UBF), has a dream. His fancy is to bring all opposition local-based political parties in the two Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak under a single roof, to be known as the United Borneo Alliance (UBA).

January 7, 2012

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Faces of innocent victims

THOUGH the police announced on Friday (Jan 6) that they have solved the RTM Road murder case in Sibu, the fact remains that eight-year-old Kelvin Ling Chei You (left), is still in critical condition and fighting for dear life at the Intensive Care Unit of the Sarawak General Hospital in Kuching.

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