8 Januari 2026 KOTA KINABALU: Seramai 15 pelajar Program Teknologi Makanan, Fakulti Sains Makanan dan Pemakanan (FSMP), Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) menyertai Lawatan Sambil Belajar ke industri di Pantai Timur Sabah baru-baru ini. Pengarah Program, Clara Claudia Japanis berkata, lawatan itu bertujuan memberikan pengalaman pembelajaran secara langsung kepada pelajar mengenai realiti operasi industri makanan, sekali gus membantu mereka mengaplikasikan pengetahuan teori yang

8 Januari 2026 KOTA MARUDU: Bencana banjir yang melanda Kampung Sungoi Darat pada awal Januari telah mengakibatkan kerosakan harta benda dan menggangu kehidupan puluhan keluarga penduduk setempat. Sebagai tindak balas segera, Pertubuhan Kinabalu Progresif Bersatu (UPKO) Cawangan Bandau telah menghantar rombongan bantuan ke lokasi pada 7 Januari 2026. Rombongan tersebut diketuai oleh Ketua Jawatankuasa Hubungan Antara Kaum (CLC) UPKO Bandau, Suzie Salapan, bersama-sama dengan

8 January 2026 KOTA KINABALU: The United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation ( UPKO) Youth Executive Committee (Exco), led by its chief Felix Joseph Saang, paid a courtesy visit to Datuk Ewon Benedick the Sabah Deputy Chief Minister III and State Minister of Industrial Development, Entrepreneurship and Transport (MINDET) on Wednesday. The courtesy call was aimed at strengthening ties and enhancing cooperation between UPKO’s youth leadership and the Sabah state government. Durin

8 January 2026 KOTA KINABALU: The High Court in Sabah and Sarawak yesterday allowed an application by Abdul Manap bin Bakusai @ Abu Bakar and his three children from Pitas to amend their National Registration Identity Card (MyKad) records to reflect their religion as Christian. In delivering her grounds of judgment, Judge Datuk Celestina Stuel Galid raised serious concerns over the National Registration Department’s (NRD) practice of assigning an individual’s religion without

8 January 2026 KOTA KINABALU: The number of non-citizen residents in Sabah declined to 1,040.2 thousand in 2025 from 1,043.6 thousand in 2024, representing a decrease of 0.32 per cent. This was reported in the International Migration Statistics 2025 published by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) on 24 December 2025. For the period from 1991 to 2025, Sabah recorded the highest number of non-citizen residents among all states, with the highest proportion registered