Late Sabah minister described as a fighter for state rights

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah DAP chairman and two-term Sandakan MP Datuk Stephen Wong Tien Fatt, who died of a heart attack yesterday, will be remembered as a fighter who sought to restore the status of Sabah and Sarawak as equal partners in the Federation of Malaysia.

Wong had proposed a private Bill to change Sabah and Sarawak from one of 13 states in the first article of the Federal Constitution to one of three parties of the Federation.