Its first newsprint hit the streets of Kota Kinabalu (was known as Jesselton then) on 1 March 1936.

The late Tan Sri Yeh Pao Tzu took over the paper in 1949, and served as its publisher cum chief editor.

He was a graduate in Journalism from Fu Tan University, China.

Yeh died in 1987 and his wife succeeded him as the Chairman.

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