SANDAKAN: Sandakan Chinese Chamber of Commerce (SCCC) Stephen Wong Tien Fatt heads the newly set up Sandakan Anti Coal Power Action Committee which comprises mostly environmentalists and representatives of local guilds and Non Governmental Organizations.
“I will like to point here again that the reasons we are objecting the implementation of the coal power plant in Sandakan due to environmental and public health concerns,” Wong Tien Fatt said after announcing the formation of the committee on Wednesday.
Wong Tien Fatt maintained the stand taken by the committee was nothing personal and neither were they against development for Sandakan nor government policies.
The others in the committee are Eleanor Wong, Abang Mohd. Jorgy Haji Juana, G. Gengadharan Pillai (deputy chairmen), Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Hassan Alban Haji Sandukong, Cham Yock Chua, Charles Chow Kok Cheng (secretaries), Dusun Chong (treasurer), Wong Vui Soon (media director), Ku Ah Kong (coordinator) and 20 committee members. The three technical advisors are Wong Tack, Gary Yap and Ho Yu Choi.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
:Anti Coal Power committee set up
: Temple association visit centre and give cheers to children
LAHAD DATU: A visit by the Chi Hong Guan Yin Temple Association was made to the district’s Sabah Deaf and Dumb Centre here led by the chairman of the association Kong Enn Leong.
Kong said that the trip was made in conjunction with the birthday of Goddess Guan Yin and they made contribution to the centre by giving a wheelchair as well as distributing Ang Pow to children at the centre.
He said that it is their hope that the visit will enhance friendship between them and the centre. The group was welcomed by among others the officer-in-charge of the centre Bebaku@Nekie Lee.
Monday, July 28, 2008
:Tawau MCA saw new faces leading
TAWAU: The district’s Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) saw a landslide in the recent election result for the district when the team led by Goh Chit Chuan won all the seat contested including the Wanita and Pemuda top posts.
The election held between July 16 and 17 saw Goh won and is now the chairman of the district’s MCA with Yap Kheng Fah winning the deputy chairman seat as well as the Pemuda chairmanship and Kong Lee Kyun won the Wanita chairperson seat.
In the election, the team took hold and won all seats contested as the past leaders of MCA in the district bowed down to the wishes of their members.
PICTURE SHOWING GOH (CENTER) FLANKED BY YAP AND KONG.
:Au visit special class at SK Muhibbah
SANDAKAN: Special class education at SK Muhibbah received special attention from Elopura State Assemblyman YB Au Kam Wah and wife after they paid a visit to the school with the intention to listen to suggestions and problems faced by such classes.
Au at the same time also managed to meet up with teachers of the special class and the school’s senior assistant Marlina Bte. Azadin over the program.
He at the same time supported a program which will be held by the school to visit the state capital in an education trip to visit SK Kibabaig and SK Kolombong on August 5 to learn more about the special class curriculum.
`I believe that such a education trip will expose those who will be visiting as it would give pupils of the special class to interact with the general public’, he said this after the visit. Au added that special class is essential as it gives an opportunity to special children to gain knowledge and made them more independence in their adulthood.
:Sandakan Toastmasters new office bearers
NEW OFFICE BEARERS …. The Sandakan Mandarin Toastmasters Club officer bearers and president Poon Kee Yang (5th left) with other special guests after their installation on Saturday night. The guest of honour for the function was Division K Governor Anne Cheng Hoo Gan and the VIP attendees included Elopura Assemblyman Au Kam Wah, past presidents and Lee Tink Loi , the political secretary to Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Raymond Tan. The highlight of the evening was the cutting of the Sandakan Mandarin Toastmasters Club 10th anniversary cake.
:Khoo reelected as Sandakan MCA division chairman
SANDAKAN: Assistant Minister to Chief Minister cum Sabah MCA chairman Datuk Edward Khoo officiated the MCA Sandakan, Batu Sapi and Libaran divisions joint annual general meeting at a restaurant in Bandar Pasaraya, Mile 4 Jalan Utara, Sandakan on Sunday. The meeting was attended by the respective division chairmen, Youth chiefs and Wanita chiefs and other committees. Datuk Khoo was reelected as the Sandakan division chairman unopposed. Kinabatangan chairman Beh See Hoong was among the attendees along with new Libaran division chairman Chin Kim Hiung, Sandakan deputy division chairman Kok Tsui Yee and Sandakan Youth chief Alex Chang. Elsewhere former Sandakan Youth chief Chew Kok Woh was elected as the new Beluran division chairman while lawyer William Liaw remains as Batu Sapi chairman.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
:SMK Agaseh to have award day
LAHAD DATU: The Excellence Award Presentation of SMK Agaseh is expected to be held on August 7 for the 19th times and the Sabah’s State Education Department Academic Management Sector chief Hajjah Maimunah Haji Suhaibul is expected to grace the event.
A spokerperson for the school said that the award is an event to honor students and teachers who had shown excellence performance in the field of Curriculum and Co-Curriculum.
`It is also as a motivation to all in the school to compete and create excellence for themselves and their school and also to enhance friendship among students, parents and teachers’, he stated.
The motto for the event is `Warga Cemerlang, Agaseh Terbilang’.
Friday, July 25, 2008
:Group conduct signature campaign against propsed coal power plant
SANDAKAN: A number of associations and individuals join force in organizing a signature campaign against the setting up of a coal power plant project in the district which they claim the project as jeopardizing environment and harming the health of people in the district.
The campaign was launched at the office of the Sandakan Chinese Chamber of Commerce (SCCC) yesterday where the organizer also make urges to the government to consider using another method to generate power for the district.
Present during the launching were SCCC general secretary Wong Tien Fatt, SCCC chairman Chiang Kwok Kheng and members of the association. Among those who supported and attended the launching were also former state assembly speaker and environmentalist Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Hassan Alban Sandukong, chairman for the Bumiputera Chamber of Commerce Sandakan Abang Mohd. Jorgy Haji Juana. Jorgy is also the district Entrepreneurial Development Council deputy chairman.
They were also joined by Environmental Action Committee chairperson Eleanor Wong, Sandakan Indian Association chairman G. Gengadharan Pillai and representative from the Sandakan Pensioners Association and a number of concern members of the public.
The launching of the signature campaign came about when Wong and Sabah Environmental Protection Association chairman Wong Tack walk out from a forum on the proposed coal power plant organized by the Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd.two days ago with members of the SCCC, DAP leaders as well as some members from Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) joining the walk out.
:Keeping stolen items is wrong: Ramli
TAWAU: Members of the public are told to report to the district police should they had suspiciously purchased stolen items as it would be an offence for them not to do so.
Acting district police chief Supt. Haji Ramli Ali Mat said they had successfully arrested a number of individuals believed to be involved in house breaking cases in the district in the past two years and they are now investigating all the house breaking cases recorded.
`Public who purchased suspicious items need to report to us because if we find such items in their possession, they are liable to be charged under Section 411 of the Penal Code which carries a jail term of no less than six months and fine’, he explained.
Ramli also said that they are conducting investigation based on the information obtained from those detained and believe they can solve a number of house breaking cases soon.
In another development, Ramli also urges employers not to take risk should they uses foreign workers without proper documents as the authority is at the brink of organizing a major operation against illegal immigrant in the district. He said that the operation will begin any time soon as the needed manpower from `out of the district are now here’ fro such purpose. At the same time, he also said that illegal immigrant staying in the district to return home peacefully before the operation began as they now could go home with their possessions. `We are not inhuman but we will detain those suspected illegal immigrant during the coming operation without remorse and I have extended our warning’, he stressed.
The advice asking illegal immigrant to return home voluntarily is appropriate as a number of illegal immigrants caught during the last Ops. Nyah II in March 2002 blamed the authorities involved for having a `cold heart’ when executing their duties.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
:Marine police confiscate 340 round logs
It’s chief DSP Husaini Zainal Abidin said that the scow was towed by a tug boat and both were held at the seafront of Sungai Pasir Putih located some 1.5 nautical mile from shore around 3.35 pm. He said that patrolboat PGR 31 made the arrest and the captain of the tug boat aged 46 was detained in the process.
`The captain failed to produce form B, removal pass and log list upon request and this case is now under Forest Enactment Section 30(1). All the logs do not have the confirmation stamps issued by the Forestry Department at both ends.
He also said that the case was handed over to the Forestry department this morning represented by Haji Sakaran Abdul Lajak, the senior ranjer of the department. Jaafar also said that the arrest operation was led by chief inspector Safri Anuar Jamin with four personnel from the Marine.
