LABUAN: Indonesia was proud to announce recently that it is producing its own submarines.Yet, Malaysia could have beaten to it had plans by then Chief Minister Tan Sri Harris Salleh for Labuan to do so had not been ridiculed and dropped, following Parti Berjaya’s defeat in 1984.
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When Labuan also nearly made it in submarines
Published on: Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Published on: Wed, May 19, 2021
By: Sohan Das
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