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April 13, 2026 Opinion

Preventing modern day slavery: Navigating forced labour risks in Sabah

LAST month (see “Human trafficking victims rescued”, The Daily Express, 18th March 2026: ( https://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news/277968/human-trafficking-victims-rescued/ ), authorities in Sabah rescued five victims of forced labour, which included a child. .

April 12, 2026 Opinion

Case of pride and not labour shortage

WEoften speak about Sabah’s workforce challenges as though they are primarily issues of skills, education, or lack of opportunity. While those explanations are not wrong, they are comfortable because they allow us to place the problem somewhere external — in policy, in institutions, or in economic structure — rather than in something much closer to home, which is how we as a society have come to see work itself.

April 12, 2026 Opinion

Rise of digital food culture

IN age of algorithms and attention spans measured in seconds, food has taken on a surprising new role in youth culture. No longer just about nourishment or even taste, food has become a kind of digital performance — one that reflects how young people today express themselves, signal values and form communities online.

April 12, 2026 Opinion

Fire Horse gallops into the AI era

ON Feb 16, we will say goodbye to the Year of the Wood Snake and hello to the Year of the Fire Horse. The Wood Snake has been a year of ups and downs, beginning with US President Donald Trump’s tariff shock in April. But since then, overall investments worldwide have been good for most investors. .

April 12, 2026 Opinion

Musa and Hajiji’s far-sightedness on POIC

MUSA, when he was CM, started POIC LD in January 2005. POIC LD will be one of Musa’s most enduring legacies for generations of Sabahans. POIC LD was one of the pillars of Musa’s “Halatuju” for Sabah. He named it POIC LD or Palm Oil Industrial Cluster Lahad Datu. Musa’s idea was economically, logically farsighted and wise: .

April 05, 2026 Opinion

What Sabah can do with the billion$, if it succeeds in making Federal honour the 40pc obligation

SABAH is about to get a huge windfall: monies owed to it since the formation of Malaysia in 1963. As part of the deal, the state gets 40% of the tax revenue raised from it by the federal authorities. .

April 05, 2026 Opinion

Tax policies may hurt DAP more

SINCE 2008, the DAP has been a pillar of Pakatan Harapan (PH), consistently delivering the highest number of seats to the coalition led by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

April 05, 2026 Opinion

Better things in store with expert Sheng on board

HAVING served the Sabah Government for more than 30 years in different capacities, Hajiji, on first becoming CM in 2020, knew well the many serious shortcomings/pitfalls of the past administrative systems. .

March 29, 2026 Opinion

Transformation of GLCs is starting to show results

Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor is the first Chief Minister to recognize that Sabah’s economy can’t be transformed/restructured without a thorough GLC transformation. .

March 16, 2026 Opinion

Lesson from Sun Tzu’s epic interview: ‘The Art of Corrective Action in HR’

THE ancient military strategist, Sun Tzu was once subjected to an unconventional interview. King Ho Lu of Wu, while intrigued having read the thirteen chapters of Sun Tzu’s “Art of War”, was sceptical of his theory. .

March 15, 2026 Opinion

Transforming Sabah for future Sabahans

FOR 40 years, no Sabahan leader has attempted the monumental challenge to transform Sabah’s economy to the scale that Hajiji has been doing since becoming CM in 2020. .

March 15, 2026 Opinion

Integrity, sincerity pays off in politics

IN my article last week on Datuk Mohd Fauzi Patel’s book ‘What Sabahans Should Know’, I mentioned that the late Datuk Kadoh Agundong and the late Datuk Malek Chua were Information Department’s Field Officers (FO) in the earlier days of their career. In other words, my colleagues, although by the time I joined Malek had left.

March 15, 2026 Opinion

Of slogans and myth of equal partnership: The idea of Sabah, Sarawak being extensions of Malaya was a No-No from the start

CHIEF Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor may have inadvertently ignited a political debate with his recent statement dismissing the notion of a “Borneo Bloc,” a remark that some have interpreted as downplaying the longstanding claims that Sabah and Sarawak are “equal partners” in the Malaysian federation. .

March 08, 2026 Opinion

The challenge for Sabah’s tourism players

INITIATIVES to up the tourism value chain is very much resonant with CM Datuk Seri Hajiji’s economic transformation.

March 08, 2026 Opinion

There will never be another Patel in Sabah’s history

I ATTENDED the official launch of the book “What Sabahans Should Know” at the library at Tanjung Aru recently.

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