Sabah ceases cross-border trade


KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is shutting down its eastern international boundaries to cross-border trade as part of measures to clamp down on southern Philippines-based kidnapping groups.

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said the decades-old barter trade activity at Sandakan and other east coast towns had been ordered to cease immediately.

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