Thursday, September 4, 2008

Malaysia's Sabah State Postpones Head of State's Birthday Celebration

Sources: Daily Express (Kota Kinabalu) and Malaysia public holidays (qppstudio.net). Sabah State Secretary, Datuk Sukarti Wakiman, announced that the September 13 birthday celebrations for Sabah's head of state, Yang Dipertua Negeri, had been postponed to October 11, 2008, due to it coinciding with the month of Ramadan in 2008. Whether October 11 would be an additional, one-off public holiday has not been announced yet.