Tag Archives: Sabah

A 5 year old boy in Sabah had to endure 5 hours of pain after his middle finger got stuck in a fidget spinner. His parents had to call the Fire and Rescue Services who eventually used a keyhole saw to cut the toy off. Are fidget spinners safe enough to be toys?

Arrangements have been made for the remains of Navdeep Singh Jaryal S/O Raj Kumar and Mohammad Ghazi Bin Mohamed to return to Singapore this afternoon (Friday). We will continue to provide support to the families of Navdeep and Ghazi during this difficult time.

The family of 12-year-old Rachel Ho, one of the faces of the Sabah quake tragedy, will be channelling all donations from her wake to Malaysian mountain guides who helped the staff and students after the disaster. "The money would go a long way for the Malaysian guides who now have no income and still have families to feed. It is our way of thanking them for risking their lives to help the students and teachers of Tanjong Katong Primary School after the disaster," he added.

Canadian tourist, Emil Kaminski, has become a notorious figure in Malaysia after he posted sarcastic and insensitive comments calling a Malaysian minister "stupid" while defending the actions of a group of Caucasian tourists who behaved inappropriately on the peak of Mount Kinabalu.

The father of a Singaporean student who survived the earthquake at Mount Kinabalu has called mountain guide Mohd Rizuan Kauhinin to thank him for rescuing his son, expressing the hope that they would be able to meet soon.

Sabah police confirmed today that the last two Singaporean climbers who went missing after last Friday’s earthquake have been accounted for. Sabah police commissioner Datuk Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman said that body parts found on Mount Kinabalu were identified to be those of 13-year-old student Navdeep Singh Jaryal and 35-year-old teacher Mohammad Ghazi Mohamed from Tanjong Katong Primary School.

On this National Day of Remembrance, it was brought home to me once again what it means to be Singaporean. This reminded me anew what it means to be Singaporean - strength,courage, duty, kindness - and being there for each other, in joy or sorrow, good times and bad. This is what it is to be part of the Singapore family.

Sabah State Education director Datuk Jame Alip says that the state is considering only restricting children under 15 from climbing Mount Kinabalu. This comes after the tragic death of 6 children in the 5th June earthquake which claimed 16 lives. Jame says that he has spoken about this matter to Malaysian Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun.

I'm frankly getting quite p*ssed off with the level of dumbassery in Malaysia because of this whole "naked-on-the-mountain" fiasco. They're saying because some foreigners ran around on top of the mountain without their underwear on, the spirit of the mountain got angry and retaliated by causing a f**king massive earthquake. A bunch of dudes and kids died, and so now they're saying that the big bad white tourists should be held responsible.

2 female Canadian tourists, 23 year-old Lindsey Peterson and 22 year-old Danielle Peterson, were arrested and prevented from leaving Malaysia after they were identified as being part of a group of tourists who stripped themselves nude and took pictures of themselves as a sacred site on Mount Kinabalu, Sabah. Malaysian police reported that on 30th May, the two women were part of a group of 10 tourists who stripped off their clothes and posed naked at the 8KM point of a 2 day hiking trip up the mountain, which locals say is a sacred site protected by their local deity. The tourists ignored the pleas of their local guide to stop, and openly insulted the guide for trying to stop them.