KOTA KINABALU: After years of living from hand to mouth, villagers in the northern district of Pitas had been looking forward to a much-touted shrimp project with the promise of a steady income – but this has yet to become reality as the plan has been indefinitely frozen.
The suspension of the Pitas Shrimp Park was due to the clearing of a large swath of mangrove forest without prior approval.
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