One Man's Meat

A wild frontier town divided

By Philip Golingai

LAST Saturday night, I took a walk on the wild side in the heart of Semporna town on the east coast of Sabah.

Undocumented children from nearby Philippines islands were publicly sniffing a plastic bag containing a glue canister. Vendors were selling vegetables and fish on a footpath riddled with puddles and garbage.

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