Separated yet still connected


ON Thursday, we will celebrate Malaysia Day, the day on which, 58 years ago, the Federation of Malaya, Sarawak, North Borneo (as Sabah was then called) and Singapore came together to form the Federation of Malaysia.

It will be an especially poignant Malaysia Day, the second we’re marking during a pandemic. The fact that the South China Sea separates Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah and Sarawak has been an especially difficult thing to deal with at this time.

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