Sabah gov’t can still have Chinese representation

LABUAN: The absence of Chinese representation in the new Sabah government is not something that cannot be set right, according to analysts. They reason that a Chinese individual can be selected to fill one of the six posts of nominated assemblyman that the ruling Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition can create as per the Sabah […]

GRS takes Sabah with simple majority

KOTA KINABALU: Election Commission chairman Datuk Abdul Ghani Salleh said as at 11.30pm, with 65 seats having been counted, the GRS allies Perikatan Nasional had won 17 seats, Barisan Nasional had 14 and Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) had six, for a total of 37. This validates earlier Gabungan Rakyat Sabah’s (GRS) claim to have obtained […]

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 […]