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KK Food Fest 2013
Spotlighting Chinese cuisine at KK Food Fest 2013
Food lovers attending KK Food Fest this year will have an opportunity to indulge in the finest Chinese gourmet that Sutera Harbour Resort's Silk Garden Restaurant can whip up for the whole month of April.
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CM: A RM2 billion Lobster Farm in the offing
During the third day of State Assembly question and answer session, the State Assemblyman for Kunak, Nilwan Kabang asked the Chief Minister on the progress of the proposed lobster farming project in Pulau Timbun Mata in Kunak District, a joint undertaking between Inno Fisheries, a subsidiary company of Yayasan Sabah, and Aquafarm Inc from America.
Food
Sabahans take to wine
Sabahans have got a taste for wine. And they speak of their rising affluence. Twenty years ago, it was difficult to find the right wine to go with a meal in Kota Kinabalu, according to Dr Yee Moh Chai, a deputy chief minister, who launched Sabah's first food and wine fair at City Mall in Kota Kinabalu on August 25. Now industry sources say the local wine market is worth at least 10m ringgit ($3.2m). And there is a wide selection of wine from France, Italy, Spain, Australia, Chile and other South American countries.
Food
Good health in Sabah ice cream
Taste, of course, does matter. But conventional wisdom says that anything that tastes good may not be good for the body. So it is with ice cream laden with calories, harmful artificial colours, and preservatives. But not with Sabah's innovative Frozherb, a new ice cream touted for its nutritional and health benefits. Made from Sabah's organic cow's milk and Chinese herbs of wolfberry and hawthorn, it won last October's Best New Ice Cream award of the International Dairy Federation in Parma, Italy.
Business
An iron chef of a woman
Masidi Manjun marvels at Asmah Grant's iron will that spells success in anything she does. He knows because she was his secretary when he was a business executive 20 years ago; long before the lawyer turned politician. So, it didn't surprise him when Asmah turned herself into a cook. And her success was a foregone conclusion, according to the minister of tourism, culture and environment. Asmah's Kak Nong Restaurant recently celebrated its 11th year in business at a spanking new Harbour City building in Kota Kinabalu.
Street food festival
A cultural mixing pot at hawkers’ haven
Food is a tourist draw. And hawker food, as varied as Malaysia's multi-racial people, has always been a hit not just with foreigners but the local people. Swede Peter Magnusson, 51, was amazed by what he found in Kota Kinabalu, capital of Sabah. He testified to tourism, culture and environment minister Masidi Manjun's statement that Sabahans are the best Malaysians, giving force to prime minister Najib Razak's 1Malaysia unity policy.
Tropical orchards
For the love of durians
Felix Chiang, 56, and his two-year-old grand-daughter Janice Chan are strangers to Siti Haisah, 38, and Norayah Awang Aming, 35. But they were drawn to Wisma Pertanian by a common link: their love for the king of fruit, the durian. There, the Federal Agriculture Marketing Board (Fama) and the ministry of agriculture and food industry brought two tonnes of durians and a tonne of rambutans and mangosteens from Ranau to Kota Kinabalu to promote local fruit.
Food & Religion
Ramadan bazaar draws the tourists
This year's Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, has come in summer. Tourists, particularly those from America, Europe and Japan have been making a beeline to Ramadan bazaars that sell all kinds of spicy exotic Malaysian food for the breaking of the fast from dawn to dusk. “It's a lovely place, lovely people and great food,” said Camilla Saaboell, 29, of Denmark.
Agriculture
Yahya’s big food goals
The race is on not just to produce enough food for everyone in Sabah. The agriculture department will have 921m ringgit ($283m) to spend on food production under the 10th five-year Malaysia plan which starts next year. But for now, Yahya Hussin, minister of agriculture and food industry, has set his sights on exporting fruit and vegetables. And he's close to achieving his goal: Sabah is expected to produce enough fruit and vegetables from the “permanent food production park” (PFPP) in Tawau by year end.
Food
Getting cheap rice to the right people
Rice is a staple in Malaysia as in most of Asia. But the 13-state federation doesn't seem to grow enough. It imports about a third of its yearly consumption of 2.2m tonnes. Conversely, Sabah imports 70% of its rice. So when prices spiked two years ago, the federal government began to help the poor buy cheap rice. The subsidy has cost it slightly more than 700m ringgit ($212m) a year. But rising demand for subsidised rice has raised concern that cheap rice might have gone to the wrong people.
Veterinary
A void in a department
Retirement or promotion of senior staff often creates a vacuum that cannot easily be filled. And this has worried Yahya Hussin, Sabah's minister of agriculture and food industry, as one of his departments, the veterinary services and animal industry (Dovsai), has at least nine managerial, administrative and professional vacancies.
Seafood industry
Europe rules over Malaysia’s marine exports
Malaysia's exports of seafood are infinitely small by comparison. The South-East Asian federation is not even among the top 10 Asian marine exporters. And its annual 3-billion ringgit ($882,000) exports are a fraction of the 340-billion ringgit world trade in seafood. Yet Malaysian marine exports are hard-pressed to meet health standards of the European Union of 27 countries.
Street food
Masidi hits it off with food hawkers
Masidi Manjun, Sabah's minister of tourism, culture and environment, loves hawkers' food. And hawkers love him; particularly those of Lido Square in Kota Kinabalu. “This is one of the cleanest hawker centres,” he said when launching a hawkers' food festival there on December 27. “Hawkers' food is the best food. My ministry will ensure that hawkers will earn a decent living.”
Farming and food industry
Yahya Hussin's bold goat goal
Sabah's deputy chief minister Yahya Hussin looks to the day when the east Malaysian state will become the leading exporter of mutton in South-East Asia. His goal seems rather odd when Sabah doesn't produce enough of the meat for its own consumption. But he is adopting a bold “blue ocean” strategy to create new markets rather than competing in an existing one. His aim: making Sabah a halal hub to supply goats and mutton to Middle Eastern consumers.
Living
Not rice but exotic catches
Paddy fields, though fast disappearing, give more than just rice in Sabah. And abandoned ones are a boon to villagers. Teeming with aquatic life, they allow people like Hulin Suili, 49, to carve out a good living by selling catches from them. Some of the fresh water fish, reptiles and amphibians like the bony perch-like gourami, eels, catfish, frogs, tortoises and terrapins sound exotic while snakeheads may be diabolic. But they are much sought after by the locals as a delicacy – more for their medicine than food.
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In pictures
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State Assemblymen Swearing in Ceremony |
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Closing Ceremony of IT training for usage of IOS and Android |
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The 6th Biennial Sabah Games (SAGA) 2013 |
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Quotes of the Day
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The government has established ILTP to fill the void and to produce quality and competent human capital in various fields to meet the labour market. The institute offers various choices for youths to learn and equip themselves with vocational skills that are in great demand in the employment market in Sabah
Datuk Siringan Gubat Minister of Resource Development and Information Technology said this during his working visit to the Commerce and Technical Training Institute (ILTP) in Papar.
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If we wish to become a more developed and more inclusive society, employee welfare must be prioritised. I ask all employers to commit to pay their workers a living wage.
Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, said in his keynote address at the Invest Malaysia 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. Malaysia had introduced the Minimum Wage Policy in July last year, and employers were given until early this year to begin complying with the new regulation.
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Before we move further ahead in developing the Oil and Gas industry in Sabah, it is important that we gain better knowledge of and a full understanding on the approach taken by the nation as a whole in this sector of the economy
Deputy Chief Minister cum Minister of Industrial Development Datuk Raymond Tan said at the 17th Asia Oil and Gas Conference in Kuala Lumpur. Tan led the delegation from Sabah to the Conference.
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We strive to empower all members of society, including women to ensure they reach their fullest potential and play a greater role in driving Sabah's future development
Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Panglima Musa Haji Aman, said in his address at the swearing-in ceremony for members of the Sabah Women Advisory Council (MPWS) held at his official residence in Seri Gaya yesterday.
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I hope all elected representatives will make full use of the State Assembly sitting as the best platform to not only participate actively in debates, but also more importantly, every word said represent the voice of the grassroots
Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman speaking at the State dinner in conjunction with the opening of the State Assembly sitting in Likas.