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- Two car drivers, motorcyclist killed
- Don’t field non-winnable candidates in general election – Umno Penampang
- Tourists allege resort staff tried to violate their modesty
- 15 Merdeka babies in Lahad Datu
- Masidi proposes Borneon tourist package
| Two car drivers, motorcyclist killed Posted: 01 Sep 2014 10:35 AM PDT KOTA KINABALU: Two car drivers and a motorcyclist were killed in three separate accidents here yesterday and in Labuan on National Day.
It was learnt that Mark Carlson Wilfred J Modoit, 25, was heading from Tambunan to Donggongon when he lost control of his car near Kasigui and hit the stationary trailer around 2.30am. The victim was pinned to driver's seat and it took the Fire and Rescue Department personnel great effort to free his body from the vehicle. Penampang police chief DSP Ratan Kumar Singh said the victim died on the spot and his body would be brought to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for a post-mortem. In the second accident, Kent Julius Moludi, 25, was killed on the spot when he collided motorcycle with a four-wheel drive vehicle at Km 13 Jalan Sapulut-Donggongon Tambunan yesterday. Ratan said Kent sustained serious injuries on the head and body. It was learnt that the Nissan Frontier driver was heading from Babagon, back to his home in Donggongon, when the four-wheel drive collided with the motorcycle at Jalan Sapulut-Donggongon Tambunan around 12.15am. The motorcylist died on the spot and his body was sent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for a post-mortem. Ratan added both cases would be investigated under Section 41(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987. In Labuan, drunken driving is believed to have caused the death of a 21-year-old man in a car accident at Jalan Batu Arang at 3.50am on Sunday. Labuan police chief Superintendent Adzhar Othman yesterday said the victim was identified as Ong Chune Hwei and had worked for an oil and gas company, Baker Huges. "The victim was driving alone from town and heading home to Taman Tan Villa, Tanjung Aru through Jalan Batu Arang. "He is believed to have driven at a high speed near the Royal Air Force Base, where his car skidded and rammed into a tree at the left side of the road. He was trapped in his car, and the Fire and Rescue Department personnel freed his body. "The victim was immediately sent to the hospital, but was later pronounced dead at the Intensive Care Unit at 6.15pm," he said, adding that a blood sample was taken from the deceased for alcohol test.   |
| Don’t field non-winnable candidates in general election – Umno Penampang Posted: 01 Sep 2014 10:34 AM PDT by Nancy Lai. Posted on September 2, 2014, Tuesday KOTA KINABALU: Umno Penampang divisional chief Datuk John Ambrose has cautioned Barisan Nasional (BN) against fielding non-winnable candidates in the constituency for the 14th general election. John who was speaking at the opening of Umno Penampang Women, Youth and Puteri joint delegates conference here yesterday, said while the 'winds of change' could be felt in Penampang, changes and sacrifices must be made by BN component parties to ensure victory for the coalition in the coming election. "If you keep fielding candidates who no one wants, the people will not vote for them. BN component parties must therefore make a sacrifice so that we can win back the Penampang parliamentary and the Moyog as well as Kepayan state seats in the 14th general election," he stressed. The joint meeting was officiated by Umno Supreme Council member cum Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir. John also claimed that the recent internal problems suffered by the division had somewhat contributed to BN losing the three seats in the 13th general election. "In the past, BN won the three seats easily and that was because we in the division were united. But recently there were some internal issues and this was one of the reasons why BN failed to retain the seats. "But the problems have been resolved and we are now united again and I am confident that we will be able to win back the Penampang parliamentary, Kepayan and Moyog state seats in the 14th general election," he said. To this end John said there was a need for the Women, Youth and Puteri movements to go down to the ground more frequently to find out and resolve issues affecting the people. He added that there was also a need to register all Umno members who are aged 21 and above as voters as well as the need to increase the division's membership. "I want all branches to sign up five members every month so that we Umno Penampang can be a force to be reckoned with," he stressed. John also took to task those who insisted on making the 'kalimah Allah' an issue in Sabah as they were doing so for their own political mileage. "This is a political game for these people because in actual fact this is a non-issue in Sabah. Even our Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had said that Sabah and Sarawak were free to use the 'kalimah Allah'. "The matter however has been manipulated by people playing their own political game," he reiterated. Meanwhile, Umno Penampang Puteri chief Dayang Sarinah Yassin in her speech suggested that Umno Penampang be given the mandate to contest in one of the seats in the constituency in the 14th general election. She also proposed that a senator be appointed from the division. Earlier in their meeting, the 83 Puteri Umno Penampang delegates passed two resolutions, namely to urge the central leadership to include more candidates from the younger generation in the 14th general election and to accord automatic membership to all women aged between 18 and 35 who sign up as members of the movement. |
| Tourists allege resort staff tried to violate their modesty Posted: 01 Sep 2014 10:33 AM PDT by Chok Sim Yee. Posted on September 2, 2014, Tuesday KOTA KINABALU: A male staff of a five-star island resort at one of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Parks off Kota Kinabalu, has allegedly tried to violate the modesty of two Hong Kong tourists during their stay at the resort. The victims said the male staff had allegedly entered the toilet knowing that both of them were in there, and blocked their exit. Worse, the victims claimed that the resort seemed to shun responsibility and did not offer an apology or compensation on the incident. The two female tourists, Chow, 22, and Chen, 26, as they wished to be known only by their surnames, who both work as receptionists in a Hong Kong hotel, arrived in Kota Kinabalu on August 28 for a vacation. The trip included a two-night stay at the island resort starting from August 29, which they paid HKD7,000 (RM2,800) for. Chow said they booked the resort because they were attracted by the beauty of the resort and the resort was built on the sea. On August 31, before the victims checked out from the resort, they went for a swim in the morning. At around 10.30am, Chow noticed that their breakfast, still left in the room, had attracted birds, ants and insects, and she asked one of the two housekeeping staff, referred herein as Staff A, at the corridor to clear the plates. Soon after, the duo went to take a shower in the bathroom together as they were rushing to check out to avoid the late charges. When they were done, they were surprised to see Staff B still in the room. Staff B signaled to them that it was alright to come out, although the women only wrapped their bodies with towels. The victims immediately retreated into the bathroom but Staff B still refused to leave the room. "I told him that we were supposed to check out today. Usually the housekeeping staff will not tidy up the room on the day guests are supposed to check out. My intention of telling him that was to ask him to leave," Chen said in a press conference here yesterday. However, the housekeeping staff ignored them and kept knocking at the bathroom door. Pressing for time to check out before 12.30pm, the women decided to dash out, wrapped only in towels, grabbed their clothes in the room and got dressed in the bathroom. Soon after they ran into the bathroom, Staff B entered the bathroom and locked the door, leaving only three of them in the space. The victims said they could not leave the bathroom as the staff had spread his arms out against the door. "I asked him why he came into the toilet; he said he wanted to tidy up the towels, and I told him that it was not convenient for him to stay there (bathroom)," Chen recalled. Suddenly, the man reached out his hand towards Chen, which seemed to the women that he either wanted to touch Chen's bare shoulder or unwrap her towel. Chen stepped back while Chow screamed and shouted 'No!' Finally, Staff B left the bathroom. By the time the women got dressed, the man was nowhere to be seen in their room. "We felt that the man wanted to assault us. If not, why would he enter the bathroom and lock the door?" Chow said. After the ordeal, the women immediately contacted the resort's reception and requested a Cantonese-speaking staff in order to lodge a report. An hour later, four staff, including the security manager, duty manager, a housekeeping personnel and staff acting as a translator came to meet with the women. "We told them what had happened but we felt that they did not believe us. We did not feel that they wanted to help us; they were more like trying to protect (the staff)," the victims pointed out. The identification procedure was equally problematic and flawed, claimed the victims. The first batch of three employees was brought in, including Staff A. The women clearly pointed at Staff A but the security manager kept asking them if the person they were referring to was another staff. Then came the second batch of four employees. "We clearly identified one of them as Staff B but the security manager repeatedly asked us if Staff B was the one." When the women did not budge from their choice, the security manager said something to Staff B, which the victims interpreted as asking the housekeeping staff to leave first. The women said the resort did not give them any explanation of how they would deal with the matter, and only asked the victims to lodge a police report in Kota Kinabalu. "I asked the resort staff how they would solve this matter, and he told us that the resort will conduct its own investigation as well as leave it to the police to investigate." The victims also demanded that the hotel compensate them for their stay, but the resort responded by saying that an internal investigation had to be carried out and proved that the staff was in the wrong before the resort would offer compensation. "When I asked the resort to compensate us for our two-night stay, I noticed one of the staff smirked at our request. "We felt insulted, like they thought we were just joking," Chow lamented. Till now, Chow and Chen have not received any compensation nor an apology from the resort. When they returned to Kota Kinabalu, the victims decided to lodge a police report. "We have expected the process to be time consuming, but we did it anyway (lodge police report), because we do now know what he will do in the future." The victims added that the island resort only installed a closed circuit television (CCTV) at its reception area, and not along the corridors. "We did not expect this level of service for HKD3,000 (RM1,400) a night. "We should have been enjoying ourselves rather than wasting our time making police statements and identifying suspects," Chow said. "The resort should be responsible for their staff, not acting like their staff have nothing to do with the resort," Chen added. The duo lodged a police report at the Kota Kinabalu district police headquarters on Sunday, and returned to the police station again yesterday accompanied by Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) deputy president Melanie Chia and vice president Chong Pit Fah. The duo identified Staff A and Staff B from photographs at the police headquarters. The victims said they thought such incident would only happen in shabby hotels and not the one they stayed in. Chow said they had felt nice about Kota Kinabalu and enjoying themselves, but the incident had changed their impression 180 degrees. "We will most likely opt for another place to visit next time," she said. The duo returned to Hong Kong last night. On the other hand, city police chief ACP M. Chandra said the police had remanded a 20-year-old room attendant from Papar to assist in police investigation. |
| 15 Merdeka babies in Lahad Datu Posted: 01 Sep 2014 10:32 AM PDT LAHAD DATU: Fifteen 'Merdeka' babies were born at the hospital here on Sunday. Hospital director Dr Tan Hee Ting said the first baby was born at 1.12am and the last one was delivered at 11.45pm on Sunday. "Seven of the babies are boys," he said yesterday. According to one of the babies' mother, Siti Nadiah Wahid, she was very happy and proud to give birth to her daughter on August 31. "I am very happy and proud for having her on our nation's independence day," said Siti Nadiah who was accompanied by her husband, Gasali Djunaidi. We encourage commenting on our stories to give readers a chance to express their opinions; please refrain from vulgar language, insidious, seditious or slanderous remarks. While the comments here reflect the views of the readers, they are not necessarily that of Borneo Post Online. Borneo Post Online reserves the right not to publish or to remove comments that are offensive or volatile. Please read the Commenting Rules. |
| Masidi proposes Borneon tourist package Posted: 01 Sep 2014 10:31 AM PDT by Shalina Roseni. Posted on September 2, 2014, Tuesday KOTA KINABALU: Sabah, Sarawak, Kalimantan and Brunei Darussalam should collaborate to reinforce the Borneo brand in promoting their tourism products. Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Masidi Manjun said this on Sunday at the closing ceremony of the Trans Borneo 4wheel Expedition. "In tourism, we need to work together as a region. Gone are the days where a country may want to market on its own but in this part of the world, I think we need to portray ourselves as Borneo," said Masidi. He suggested that Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei could come up with a joint Borneon tourist package to offer travellers with a variety of tourism products. Such a method is the best and most effective marketing tool to promote tourism in the four Borneon states, said the minister. Masidi cited the recent partnership between the state government and Royal Brunei Airlines as an example of a successful collaboration. "Not only were we able to market the two countries effectively but the dividends are far better through such an alliance," he said. The minister said that similar cooperation would also expose travellers to the natural wonders found in Borneo, such as the 120 million-year-old rainforest, the world heritage Mount Kinabalu and the world's tallest tropical tree in Tawau. "God has given us everything for free. All we need to do is look after it and create facilities to allow access to these kinds of tourism products," said Masidi. He also said that Borneo has 668 variety of birds, the largest in a single region. Out of this number, 54 are endemic to Sabah and 14 are endemic to Mount Kinabalu. Masidi also stated that the turnover for bird watching in the world is about USD2-3 billion. There are 800,000 bird watching societies in Britain and the 10% acquirement of that market is a great potential to the bird watching business in Borneo and the people should capitalize on these kinds of natural gifts, utilizing it fully to generate income, he said. "To me nature is the best tourism product. This is not a political statement but perhaps we can all learn from Sabah," said Masidi to the throngs of Trans Borneo participants from East Malaysia as well as neighbouring countries Indonesia and Brunei. According to him, the state government cancelled or shortened many logging licenses 12 years ago, where logging revenue used to be RM2 billion a year. He said although the 2013 logging revenue dropped to RM100 million and the people rebutted at the sudden drop of number, last year's tourism receipts reached RM6.3 billion. "What we lost in logging revenue, we gained back through tourism. The best capital of revenue generation was given to us by God for free," he said. At the closing ceremony, the minister announced that the government would give its full support to future similar expeditions. The expedition started in Pontianak, Indonesia on August 17, traversing through Malaysia, Indonesia as well as Brunei, and culminated on August 31 here. Earlier during the ceremony, Trans Borneo Sabah coordinator Mohd Anuar Abdul Ghani said that future plans for the expedition included turning it into an international event. Thirty vehicles from the region participated in Trans Borneo 2014, which originally started in 1988. The oldest among the participants was Brunei's 78-year-old Hajah Dayang Damit Awang Ahmad, who has participated in the expedition six times, and also received the Trans Borneo Team Spirit Award for being the most inspiring participant. |
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