Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

KOTA KINABALU, Dec 3 -- As of November this year, the Sabah Public Works Department has completed 70 projects or 13.6 per cent of the 514 projects listed in its current development programmes.

According to Universiti Malaysia Sabah School of International Tropical Forestry lecturer, Andy Russel Mojiol, a study conducted by the university unveiled that there are some 3,526 birds residing within the mangrove area.

KOTA KINABALU: The death toll from Thursdays cargo vessel capsize off Pulau Banggi rose to 14 with searchers continuing their search two more missing persons.

KOTA KINABALU, Dec 1 -- Heavy rain for six hours caused a landslide at KM65 of the Kota Kinabalu-Ranau road at the foot of Gunung Kinabalu early Tuesday, leaving hundreds of vehicles stranded.

KOTA KINABALU: Families started burying those drowned after a wooden cargo vessel capsized in waters off the northern Kudat district three days ago just as another body was fished from the waters Sunday.

KOTA KINABALU: The trial of a mobile phone shop owner charged with spreading a comment insulting the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah, on a website, opened in the Sessions Court here Monday with technical evidence.

He said the plans have been put in place stressing on three key parts namely cleanliness, beauty and safety.

KOTA KINABALU, Nov 29 -- MASwings will showcase its ATR72-500 aircraft at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition from Dec 1-5. The airline is also expected to sign the acceptance of its seventh ATR72-500 worth RM80 million during the exhibition.

KOTA KINABALU : A massive air and sea search is on for 11 people missing after a fishing boat with at least 25 people capsized in waters off Pulau Banggi in Sabah's northern Kudat district.

KOTA KINABALU: Twelve members of a family are missing while three others were confirmed dead when the boat they were in capsized off Pulau Gulangin, two nautical miles from Karakit, on Thursday night.

Kota Kinabalu: Police rescued seven foreign women, believed to be victims of human trafficking, from a house in Tawau on Nov.

KOTA KINABALU: New Straits Times journalist Jaswinder Kaur bagged top honours at the 2009 Sabah Tourism Awards for an article on the Kinabatangan floodplains.

KOTA KINABALU, Nov 23 -- Although the second wave of H1N1 has not reached the country yet, the public is advised to continue being cautious as Influenza A is still active in Malaysia.

KOTA KINABALU, Nov 23 -- Terengganu has recorded 185 cholera cases and Sabah, 18, as of Sunday.

KOTA KINABALU: Felda, which is known for its vast palm oil and rubber development programmes, is now venturing further - into the sea.

KOTA KINABALU: Police have arrested a 15-year-old girl for allegedly trying to kill her mother in a plot believed to have been hatched by her father's 25-year-old second wife, who has also been detained.

KOTA KINABALU: A civil servant got the scare of her life when two men jumped into the car she was waiting in and drove off with her for about 5km before letting her go.

KOTA KINABALU: The proposed 300mW coal-fired power plant in the east coast Lahad Datu district will undergo stringent assessment before it can get off the ground, Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun said.

Kota Kinabalu: Two Filipinos and a local man, who were sentenced to death respectively for trafficking Syabu, failed in their appeal against conviction and sentence in the Court of Appeal here Tuesday.

A 325km stretch of the Miri-Kota Kinabalu road passing through Brunei Darussalam will be upgraded in phases at a cost of RM513 million under the 10th Malaysia Plan , Works Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said here Monday.