The SYRC programme will be implemented starting in May 2022.

THE Sabah Youth and Sports Ministry aims to achieve three Key Performance Index (KPI) with the RM80, 593,054 allocated it this year strengthening the Ministry’s Organisational Management, empowering youth human capital by implementing activities, and achieving sports excellence.

ON HIS side Kwok had about one hundred of his Kinabalu band and could count on nearly twice that number of islanders. Very few of his men had any military training. Peter and Dewa Singh were ex-policemen and Li Tet Phui and Jules Stephens had some part-time experience as soldiers.

THE sight of a good shade tree is likely to evoke nostalgic memories of the past such as peaceful moments under the canopy of some trees in the kampung doing the usual stuffs that may include wallowing away the day in the shade with a few bottles of a fiery tipple in hand.

Albert Kwok, a young Chinese, had come to Jesselton (now Kota Kinabalu) in 1940. He was a Sarawak man, born in Kuching, where his father was a dentist. He was trained in the arts of Chinese healing and had been a very successful Chinese doctor in Nanking, Hankow and Canton.

IT IS odd to note that while some plants have been branded as invasive, undesirable and disruptive, others are highly valued and treated with velvet gloves and molly coddled with tender loving care. The unfair treatment of the comparables of both sides of the narrative comes from the uses, juices and pecuniary advantages that can be extracted to benefit the ones that call the shots.  At the end of the day, the most desirable and treasured ones are those that yield good benefits and high profits.

In October 1943 Sabah lay under the iron heel of the Japanese. The armies of Japan had invaded Borneo in January 1942 as part of the Japanese war of conquest in the Far East which had begun on December 7th, 1941 with the victory by the forces of the Emperor over those of the United States of America at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii.

THE Funk brothers – Johnny, Alexander and Paddy – were members of the North Borneo Volunteer Force (before the war). Their family home was near where the Allied Prisoners Of War (POWs) were interned from July 1942. This enabled the brothers to establish secret contacts with the POWs which saw them providing help and serving as conduits between the POWs and the hospital in Sandakan.

Agnes Newton Keith, the author of two books, “Land Below The Wind,” and “Three Came Home,” was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and later married a British Colonial Officer, Harry Keith.

SWITCHING to terrestrial wildlife photography after decades of diving the deep, famous dive guru, Clement Lee, has this to tell the tourism establishment:.