Kadazandusun leaders see red over shopping mall’s move to stage beauty contest


A file photo of Melinda Louis (Unduk Ngadau 2012) is flanked by 1st runner up, Fenney Doimis (left) and 2nd runner up, Meryl Foster Paladius (right). The Beauty Queen or Unduk Ngadau contest during the Harvest Festival celebration on May 2012 held at the Hongkod Koisaan building in Penampang. (May 13) NORMIMIE DIUN/The Star.

KOTA KINABALU: A shopping mall’s move to stage its own Harvest Queen pageant is making some prominent Kadazandusun leaders see red.

They have taken exception to the event being called Unduk Ngadau (beauty contest) as such an event should be organised by those of from Kadazandusun and Murut while the contestants should strictly be from these two ethnic communities.

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