Date Posted: 25 Nov 2009
KOTA KINABALU, Nov 24 (Bernama) -- Terminal 1 of the Kota Kinabalu International Airport is expected to be fully completed and operational in May next year, Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun said.
He said construction of the runway extension was halted until after the Sabah Turf Club (STC) had vacated part of the site which formed the runway extension.
"The terminal was supposed to have been completed in May this year, but the work had to be postponed because the STC needed time to move to a new site," he told reporters at the presentation of cheques to two charity organisations at his office, here, on Tuesday.
The STC is moving to its new site in Tuaran.
Masidi, who was earlier briefed on the progress of the terminal at the Malaysia Airport Berhad office here, said work on completing the airport would continue in December after the STC had vacated the site.
The cheques were handed over to the Kiwanis Down Syndrome Foundation and the Sandakan Hospice Association, which received RM10,000 each from the nett sale of tickets for the Saranghaeyo Korea Festival held here in September.
Masidi said the inaugural festival, which attracted more than 80,000 Koreans to Sabah, was held to commemorate 50 years of diplomatic relations between Malaysia and South Korea.
The festival was co-sponsored by the State Tourism, Culture and Environment Ministry, the Korea Tourism Organisation and LG Malaysia.
(Source: BERNAMA, 24 Nov 2009)
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