Tapping the rubber boom


  • Nation
  • Saturday, 01 Apr 2006

AS the Prime Minister read out the 9MP details, a rubber tapper allowed himself to dream of a better future in the next five years. 

His hope is that rubber prices will keep going up and the thrust to eradicate poverty in Sabah and Sarawak will enable him to own a plot of rubber smallholding in the south-western district of Beaufort, in his native Sabah. 

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