SANDAKAN: An estimated six acres of the Elopura recreational forest reserve was destroyed by fire at 9.06am, last Saturday.

SANDAKAN: A 64-year-old man was jailed one day and fined RM10,000 or five months’ jail for drink- driving.

SANDAKAN: The Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre (BSBCC) Sandakan launched its mutual partnership with Kolej Vokasional Sandakan 2 in conjunction with the 8th International Sun Bear Day at the centre in Sepilok, Mile 14, Thursday. .

SANDAKAN: Two foreign brothers and a local woman were sentenced by the Magistrate’s Court here, Tuesday, for giving false information when applying for an identity card for an individual who was not the woman’s biological child, last year. .

SANDAKAN: Sabah and Sarawak should be excluded from the government’s intention to withdraw existing petroleum subsidies for targeted subsidies in the near future.

SANDAKAN: A woman trader plead guilty at the Magistrates’ Court here today on two counts of providing false information as being a mother when registering the identity cards for two of her male neighbours last year.

SANDAKAN: Even Orangutans in Sabah are feeling the heat from the El Nino weather phenomenon – one of them at the Rainforest Development Centre (RDC) in Sepilok was caught on video raiding a fridge for cold drinks at its Keruing Cafe.

SANDAKAN: Four Johorean were sentenced to death by the High Court here for trafficking 34,283.2gm of syabu four years ago.

SANDAKAN: Parti Warisan’s  Elopura Assemblyman Calvin Chong said the State Government must look into sewage pump thefts, clogged sewage system, lack of sewage trucks and inefficient water plant maintenance management in the district. .

SANDAKAN: The Immigration Department deported 226 Filipino illegal immigrants by sea, using the vessel MV Antonia 1, from Sandakan Port to Zamboanga, Philippines, on Wednesday.