CHAIRMAN of Palm Oil Industry Cluster (POIC) Datuk Yong Teck Lee in his statement said that additional palm oil cess is damaging to Sabah’s economic recovery. The new additional RM2 cess per ton is on top of the existing RM14 per ton of Crude Palm Oil, making a total of RM16 per ton.

REFERENCE is made to your recent report on a suggestion by the Sabah and Labuan Chinese community to have a road sign in the State Capital named after the late Tan Sri Peter Lo, Sabah’s second Chief Minister and the first Chinese to hold the post.

WE propose that in the interest of reducing the cost of living of consumers in the long run, efforts to enhance the production of local food whether at the household level, at the scale of gardens, farms or even in residential areas, should be increased.

IT was pleasant to read the front page of Daily Express on Thursday, 4th February 2021 – Opposition Praises Hajiji. Kota Kinabalu DAP Member of Parliament Chan Foong Hin said Hajiji was unlike Kedah Menteri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor who had cancelled the Thaipusam Holiday in Kedah.

THE news about 90 Asean Members of Parliament and former elected representatives expressing their concerns over Malaysia’s state of emergency and urging the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and prime minister to allow Parliament to reconvene as soon as possible is appalling, to say the least.

OVER the weekend when two women separately recounted their experiences with police officers at roadblocks, the main issue raised has been sexual harassment – and rightly so.

THE death of a 66-year-old man in Serdang recently is regrettable and sad.

THE government recently announced the extension of the movement control order (MCO) for some states and restrictions will be relaxed in other states. The Covid-19 vaccination rollout is set to begin by the end of the month.

THERE is an ongoing wave of Covid related lockdowns starting first with two weeks. This lockdown has now rolled on again and again since March 2020. A similar wave of lock-downs are also happening around the world as if acting in unison.

WE, the rural and poor congratulate the Chairman and members of Sabah Economic Advisory Council on their appointment by the State Government.  We have no doubt the Economic Advisory Council will, as its top priority, introduce economic programmes for people like us.