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Govt Mobilises Support For Sabah

Sep 16, 2025

All response agencies have been mobilized to step up flood and landslide relief operations in Sabah.

DPM Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi – who is also chairman of the Central Disaster Management Committee – says department heads and district officers have also been briefed about taking immediate action.

So far, a total of 21 million ringgit has been approved to help restore essential services and provide immediate relief for the affected families.

This, as 12 people, including children, were killed in two separate landslides in Kota Kinabalu and Papar yesterday.

This brings the total number of fatalities from landslides in KK, Papar and Penampang since last Thursday to 13.

There are also more than 1,800 individuals currently seeking shelter at flood relief centers across Sabah.

Meanwhile, at last look… a further 400 evacuees have also been forced to seek shelter in flood relief centers in Selangor, Perak, and Negeri Sembilan.

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In other news…the Malaysian Medical Association is calling for proper and stronger enforcement of smoking control laws.

It also wants greater awareness about the Health Ministry’s Smoking Complaint Line, which allows the public to report cases of individuals lighting up in non-smoking areas.

This, following a viral case where a scuffle broke out after a man allegedly smoked near a pregnant woman at a restaurant in Shah Alam.

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The government says it will use the upcoming visit of Donald Trump for the ASEAN Summit in KL, to reiterate the country’s stand on the war in Gaza, as well as Israel’s recent attacks on Qatar.

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And, the Tebrau Member of Parliament is the latest to be targeted by an extortion scheme involving AI-generated explicit videos…taking the number of lawmakers targeted so far to 12.