Rebecca Chong

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Ten villages in Pitas cut off from main roads since Tuesday

Villagers fear food supplies will run dry before they receive assistance

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Sandakan clock tower to be ‘clockless’ no more

Four-faced clock tower, which has been empty since 2015, set to receive new clocks from Japan's Seiko

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Sandakan nursing home struggles to cope with Covid-19 cases

Staff members left physically and mentally exhausted as senior care home becomes locus of new Covid-19 cluster in Sabah

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Sabah DAP tight-lipped over rep’s criticism of ‘wasteful’ new service centre

Elopura assemblyman Calvin Chong questions motive behind having centre in area where there are already two others

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Sandakan folk forced to wait another week for normal water supply

Repairs to faulty pump completed, but checks show there are leakages in other parts

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Sabah’s Rugading river contaminated, over 1,000 villagers unable to catch crabs  

Sabah Department of Environment has investigated the matter and found that a premise has been releasing petroleum-based oil into an open drain  

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Umno, Bersatu, PAS chant ‘Malay Unity’, but let Malays suffer: Shafie

Although 70% of Malays live in urban areas, ruling parties still working on the basis that the majority are rural, says Warisan head

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Cash bouquets – more than a garden-variety gift

For the past few years, people have started replacing flowers in bouquets with more 'useful' items

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Covid-19 is nature’s revenge for exploiting wildlife: biologist

Nipah virus another example of infections jumping from animals to humans, says Dr Wong Siew Te

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Entire Sandakan water supply dependent on just 2 old pumps  

A third water pump is desperately needed for district's 380,000, but a new one is only expected to reach in June

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Time to end Sandakan’s water supply disruptions once and for all

MP says only one in three pumps in township functional, people severely underserved

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Sabah Law Society urges federal govt to enact anti-hopping law  

Public confidence in democratic process will diminish greatly if elected representatives continue to jump ship, warns president