"THAT'S
IT!".... says Yahya Hussin and he gets a chorus of agreement from Wong Vui
Ying, Director of Sabah Library; Azizah Dun, Welfare Minister and Jainab Ayid,
an Assistant Minister in the Ministry Of Resource Development And Information
Technology. Insert Pic : Steven Tan.
By : NURHAFIZAH YUSOF
IT IS Malaysia’s first green
library. But half of the 40m ringgit ($12.9m) of the cost of the Kota Kinabalu
regional library has come from a private company, the Lahad Datu Water Supply
Sendirian Berhad.
It is also the first such
building funded by the private sector, according to Deputy Chief Minister Yahya
Hussin who launched it at a groundbreaking ceremony in Tanjung Aru today.
“This is a very good
cooperation between the private sector and the government,” he said. The
library is expected to be ready by 2015.
Like the Sabah art gallery,
the library will turn to solar energy, harvest rain water and use materials
that will not add to carbon dioxide emission to keep global warming in check.
Steven Tan, Managing
Director of Lahad Datu Water Supply Sendirian Berhad, says the funding is part
of his company’s corporate social responsibility. (Insight Sabah)
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