Luxury Holiday Blog - Tropical Sky (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Kota Kinabalu is a coastal city on the north coast of Malaysian Borneo in the state of Sabah. I have always loved the name of this resort. It conjured up a sleepy colonial city like Georgetown in Penang but when I…
O.B.E. (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Sabahan gets citizenship back after 20 months KOTA KINABALU: Seventy-eight-year-old Yong Lee Hua @ Piang Lin got her Malaysian citizenship back after a traumatic 20 months that turned her life upside down. Yong, a Sabah bumiputra, who received her MyKad yesterday demanded to know why it took so long for the National Registration Department (NRD) to sort [...]
Lim Kit Siang (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to the pacemaker.Ranau town itself has roads and is on the main highway between Sandakan and Kota Kinabalu. It developed primarily as a result of the Mamut Copper Mines in the district. However, highway in this context means a two lane road with frequent landslides and potholes, with a two-hour drive to Kota Kinabalu. Outside Ranau, transportation becomes a problem as tarred roads...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Malaysia's low cost carrier AirAsia bid good-bye to Boeing aircraft in Malaysia as its remaining Boeing 737 made its last flight on Tuesday. The aircraft carrying passengers from Kota Kinabalu, capital of Malaysia's eastern state of Sabah, to the Low Cost Carrier Terminal, some 70 kilometers south of here, was greeted by AirAsia Group chief executive officer Tony Fernandes. AirAsia said that...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Singapore and Malaysia expanded the bilateral air agreement on Monday, allowing both countries' low cost carriers to increase services. "The new agreement gives low cost carriers of both countries the right to operate between Singapore and three cities in East Malaysia - Kota Kinabalu, Kuching and Miri," said Singapore's Ministry of Transport in a statement. It said that from Nov. 1, Singapore...
Materia Medica Malaysiana (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
NST: KOTA KINABALU: Food containing 2.5 parts per million (ppm) or less of melamine is acceptable, Health Minister Datuk Liow Tiong Lai said yesterday. For baby food, the permissible level is 1ppm. Melamine is used in the manufacture of plastics. “So far, all the products we have tested have melamine within the permissible level,” Liow said after attending [...]
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
SINGAPORE: Singapore and Malaysia have agreed to expand their bilateral air services agreement and low-cost carriers will soon be allowed to operate between Singapore and Kota Kinabalu, Kuching and Miri in East Malaysia.
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
SINGAPORE: Singapore and Malaysia have agreed to expand a bilateral air services agreement that will allow Low Cost Carriers to operate between Singapore and three cities in East Malaysia. The new agreement will see effect from November 1, when Low Cost Carriers of both countries will be given the right to operate seven flights per week between Singapore and the Malaysian cities of Kota Kinabalu,...
