The New Sabah Times is a newspaper in Sabah, Malaysia. It was first known as the Sabah Times when it was founded in 1949 by Donald Stephens. He later became Sabah's first Chief Minister when Sabah gained independence from the United Kingdom. He was also awarded the title Tun as a reward for his service.
In 1954, the Sabah Times combined with the North Bornoe News and became the North Bornoe News & Sabah Times. The paper changed its name again in 1969 to Kinabalu Sabah Times but reverted in 1979 to its original. Publication of the Sabah Times ended on 24 March1995.
On 8 March1998, the newspaper was resurrected as the New Sabah Times by Inna Kinabalu Sdn Bhd.
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The Philippines claims the whole of Sabah as part of its territory, based upon the Sultanate of Brunei's cession of its north-east territories to the Sultanate of Sulu in 1703, because of military assitance given by the latter to the former.
Malaysia insists that Sabah is under the sovereignty of Malaysia based on the fact that Baron von Overbeck and Alfred Dent secured agreements with the Brunei Sultanate on 29 December 1877 and the Sulu Sultanate on 22 January 1878, the sultanate of Sulu agreed to lease Sabah to Malaysia.
Sabah's position within Malaysia was reinforced by the ruling made by the International Court of Justice for Pulau Sipadan and Pulau Ligitan to remain under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of Malaysia rather than Indonesia.
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