WHAT began as a “Jom Balik Sekolah” pioneer programme by The Society of Hope Sabah to distribute 10,000 sets of stationery to children from the B40 communities in 80 primary schools and kindergartens in 20 districts throughout Sabah, has earned the Society an enviable national record in the prestigious Malaysia Book of Records (MBR).

MEMORABLE experience is an important dimension of the tourist experience.

WHILE building big hotels may be beyond many of Sabah’s entrepreneurs, the rise of boutique hotels like the Jesselton Hotel, the oldest boutique hotel in the state capital, is more affordable to exploit the booming tourism trend.

IN LIGHT of the current food security issues everywhere that affects virtually every country, the question of producing food has become a very serious food for thought for governments, ministries, departments and policy makers everywhere. Even the ordinary man in the street, the loafers, stragglers and dedak-seekers are also worried about the availability of the next meal.

DESPITE the Covid-19 pandemic, Sabah saw an RM4.47 billion increase in foreign and domestic direct investment last year, while the manufacturing sector contributed RM6.04 billion to the State’s GDP.

THIS is the latest tourism award news. Padas Farmstay Tenom has been picked winner of the Asean Community-based Tourism Standard award 2023-25.

THE MICCI Annual Luncheon Tuesday climaxed in the launching of ‘Kota Kinabalu City Hall Investors’ Guidebook by Datuk Dr Seri Panglima Joachim Gunsalam.

WHEN business is down by a long shot, it is actually a public interest and macro-economic duty of the Government to prop up a lethargic condition with extra support via whatever fiscal and political muscle at its disposal, without even being asked.

THE grain has a larger role in the sense that even the State Agriculture and Food Industry Ministry aims to increase Sabah’s rice production self-sufficiency level to 60 per cent by 2030 from the current 25 per cent.

Experience as a minority in UK 'Most of the time I lived in UK in a small town called Canterbury. There was not much multiculturalism. The varsity had many students from all over the world. I didn’t directly experience multicultural Britain which in any case is probably not as simple as it sounds.