Sabah CM wants ethnic languages strengthened

KOTA KINABALU: Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor wants ethnic languages, cultures and customs in Sabah strengthened so that they are not marginalised in today’s modern world and technology. He said Sabah has 35 ethnic groups and 217 sub-ethnic groups, using more than 50 languages and about 90 dialects, and all these need to be preserved for the […]

Hajiji sworn in as Sabah’s 16th Chief Minister

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Perikatan Nasional chairman and Sulaman assemblyman, Datuk Hajiji Noor was sworn in as Sabah’s 16th Chief Minister today. Also taking their oath before Sabah Yang Dipertua Negeri Tun Juhar Mahiruddin were the three Deputy Chief Ministers, namely Sabah Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman and Lamag assemblyman Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin, STAR president […]

Whoever wins, Sabahans lose

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. – Richard Armour, American poet Imagine this. It took just one Umno assemblyman, Tan Sri Musa Aman, to attempt a coup against the Sabah government and it almost succeeded. We have to […]

Right move, says political leaders

KUCHING: Local political leaders appear to agree that Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal has made the right move in dissolving the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) to resolve the political impasse in the state. Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Datuk Amar Dr James Jemut Masing and Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Abdul […]