It was a beautiful dream come true. Hajiji’s inclusiveness is bearing fruit where it is most important at the political level. Heartening to see that a number of opposition political leaders have accepted Hajiji’s invitation to attend the Majlis Ramah Mesra Aidilfitri at SICC on 7 May 2022. It was a good start.

AS pandemic-induced lockdowns enter their third week in some parts of the US and Europe, the focus is turning to what the world would look like in the aftermath of ­Covid-19.

PEOPLE want business to engage more — not less — with societal problems. That’s according to the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer, which presents findings from a survey of 36,000 people in 28 countries.

Sabahans have already been suffering from higher prices more than the rest of Malaysia for decades for many well-known reasons. We can take comfort that the Russian/Ukraine war is many thousands of miles away in Europe.

The Paris Climate Agreement has driven countries scrambling to reduce and offset their greenhouse gas emissions. “Carbon markets” are created by capping the overall emission of a country, forcing the emitters to either reduce their carbon emissions or purchase “carbon credits”, such as from conservation projects, to compensate for their emissions.

Musa had a brilliant vision for POIC when he launched it in 2005. POIC was destined to cater for the downstream industry for the rapidly growing oil palm plantations in the East Coast where most of Sabah”s oil palm plantations are located. He has provided POIC with a total of 5,000 acres as he was also eyeing the vast area of Kalimantan that was being developed with large scale oil palm. He was right.

“PARTY-HOPPING” refers to elected lawmakers switching allegiance to a different political party midway through the term of office to which they were elected. Party-hopping can trigger the fall of a sitting government, as the key prerequisite for a government to be formed and retain power is the continued support of the majority in the relevant legislature: Parliament at the federal level and the State Legislative Assembly at the state level.

FROM the 1st of April 2022, Malaysia will enter a transition stage from the Covid-19 pandemic to the endemic phase. However, the uncertainties in the global economy continue to loom large due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and increased tensions between the US and China.

MANY thanks to the many inputs, messages and discussions on my article “The Love Sabah movement is growing” on 10 April 2022. Some parts of this article are based on these feedback.

Last  June, the social media ­giant then known as Facebook became only the sixth company in the world — behind iPhone maker Apple Inc, software powerhouse Microsoft Corp, search supremo Google’s owner Alphabet Inc, e-commerce behemoth Amazon.com and Saudi Arabian oil firm Saudi Aramco — to surpass a market value of US$1 trillion (RM4.2 trillion). Its market value peaked at US$1.1 trillion on Sept 1.