Kee family to hold first gathering in Tawau

TAWAU: The first gathering of the Kee family, a namesake synonymous with Tawau, will be held at the Tawau community hall on October 4.

The Kee family are des­cendants of Chinese national Kee Kim Swee who embraced Islam with the name Kee Abdullah and became the first civil servant (tax collector) in Tawau in 1894.