Progress awakens a sleepy hollow


KOTA KINABALU: Shaking his head as a frown creases his forehead, 80-year-old Yassin Momin stares at the seemingly incessant stream of vehicles passing through the main thoroughfare of his native Sipitang town in Sabah's south west. 

“The cars keep passing non stop day and night. There’s not even a five-minute interval,” sighed the retired fisherman who lives in Kampung Goroh, some 2km from the town. 

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