Capt Dorai Raja On behalf of Layang Layng Group Managing Director, Tuan Hajii Johan Poong Abdullah, I would like to congratulate Zara on achieving her double Guinness Book of Recork and Layang Layang Aerospace is proud to sponsor the ground handling for her microlight aircraft, the Shark UL, CIQ clearance and be part of Zara’s journey during he stopover in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia between December 16-19, 2021. Zara is a brave, remarkable and resilient young pilot who weathered the challenges during the entire flight around the world. We wish her all the best in her future endeavours as Zara shared with us her aspiration to become a fighter pilot with the airforce.

WOW, after a three-day (December 16-19, 2021) stopover in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, 19-year-old aviator Zara Rutterford struck home two Guinness World Record title for being the youngest woman to fly around the world solo, when when she finally touched down in Belgium last Thursday (January 22, 2022) after a marathon 155-day stint! She received a rapturous welcome home, after first leaving it on August 18, 2021.

IT IS a fact that gardening activities are personal choices where previously they arose mainly due to interest in plants, and recently due to good money making potential. Just like in the good old days where every home had something growing, nowadays, plants are cultivated by gardening enthusiasts more for enjoyment and personal satisfaction than for anything else. Of course, there are many enterprising people who see it as an opportunity to rake in a few bundles per month just so that there is sufficient food to put on the table, considering that the Covid pandemic is still inflicting untold suffering and losses on countless families.

EVERYBODY thinks honesty and trust is important. But can we find a theft-free place on earth that needs nobody or any policeman around to punish thieves for non-compliance, except a belief in the punitive power of an unseen force? Yes, you can, deep inside Sabah! Well, this is the pleasant surprise which inspires this reflective story on the question of trust. How safe and secure we can all feel if everybody can be trusted not to steal. Yet, there is such an innocent unsung village in Sabah.

A LUSH mangrove forest digs its heels literally in the backyard of Kota Kinabalu city, thanks to the city folk’s commitment to conservation and the wetland birds that inspired it.

FOUNDER of Chanteek Borneo (a small enterprise engaged in ethnic textile designing and printing on synthetic fabrics as a cottage industry at Tamparuli, Sabah), Anne Antah, 46, won the much-coveted Anugerah Usahawan Wanita Harapan (Promising Woman Entrepreneur Award) in conjunction with the State Women’s Day celebration 2021.

MIXING among pilots, I found they hold the weather in utter awe. Said Philip Tze, Deputy President of Sabah Flying Club: “If you fly headlong into a storm, the violent updrafts and downdrafts can break even a big plane into pieces, so what about Zara Rutterford’s tiny ultralight Shark which she uses to fly solo around the world?” So far, Zara has let the weather decide each flight every time, not her plan.

VETERAN pilots in Sabah paid their unreserved tribute to the first teen girl to fly solo around the world in an ultralight single engine plane.

Macau Scam IN Macau Scam, you will get a call from someone posing as an employee of a legitimate body such as the bank or as law enforcement.

SABAH has seen its fair share of stories about scams that have gotten national and State media attention.