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January 13, 2012

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.

January 5, 2012

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Week-long remand for Li

THE Sessions Court in Sibu has granted a 28-year-old Chinese national Li Xiao Lan, the second wife of businessman Ling Tong Hock, to be remanded for seven days to help police investigate the murder of Ling, two of his children and 76-year-old his mother.

January 4, 2012

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Sibu killings: wife detained

BUSINESSMAN Ling Tong Hock, 36, was murdered at his home together with two of his children and 76-year-old mother, in Sibu an inland town in Sarawak, located at the confluence of the Rajang and Igan Rivers, Tuesday morning (Jan 3).

December 31, 2011

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Clock ticking fast for Nazib

THE clock is ticking and there is no turning back. In a matter of hours the New Year would dawn upon us, like it or not, ready for it or not. For those who are uncertain of where they stand or going, the year 2012 is getting too close for comfort.

December 29, 2011

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Nomad plane that crashed

Borneopedia has made a probe on the Nomad short take off and landing (STOL) plane that crashed at Sembulan close to Kota Kinabalu International Airport runway on 6 June 1976 known as the Double Six or 666 Tragedy that killed Tun Fuad Stephens and 10 others on board, including the pilot.

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.

December 27, 2011

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Double Six or 666 tragedy

ONE of the darkest moments in the aviation history of Borneo was the air crash that occurred in the afternoon of 6th June 1976 often referred to since as the Double Six tragedy. In my opinion, it is more accurate for it to be recorded as a ‘666 tragedy’.

December 26, 2011

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Storm Greg hits Borneo

TROPICAL storm Greg hit the western coast of Sabah in the wee hours of Boxing Day (Dec 26) in 1996 right from Kudat in the north to Tuaran, down to the interior region around Keningau and further to Tenom, killing 238 persons and leaving another 102 reported missing.