Sabah This Week
A free, once-a-week email on what's happening around Sabah: events, openings, and the handful of things worth knowing. Read past issues below, or get the next one in your inbox.
Past issues
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Sabah This Week #18 - 29 Oct-11 Nov 2026 Big Bad Wolf books, the BIGSABAH Sale and a car show at SICC, Halloween in KK and Sandakan, and the Borneo Bird Festival, plus three business stories. -
Sabah This Week #17 - 22 Oct-4 Nov 2026 A games weekend at SICC, the Borneo Safari flag-off and the BIGSABAH Sale, plus Halloween at the malls, a Deepavali tamu and three business stories. -
Sabah This Week #16 - 15-28 Oct 2026 Climbathon morning on Kinabalu, the last days of Kota Belud's big tamu and Tenom's coffee festival, plus thirteen more things to do and three business stories. -
Sabah This Week #15 - 8-21 Oct 2026 Sabah's mountain race, buffalo races at Kota Belud's big tamu and Japanese films in KK for RM10 a ticket, plus ten more things to do and three business stories. -
Sabah This Week #14 - 1-13 Oct 2026 Buffalo races in Kota Belud, a three-day culture festival in the middle of KK, an adventure expo at SICC and two comedy nights. -
Sabah This Week #13 - 24 Sept-7 Oct 2026 Mid-Autumn weekend brings a lantern-season tamu to the waterfront, the book fair runs its last days, and early October belongs to Ritma Kinabalu and a four-day coffee festival. -
Sabah This Week #12 - 17-30 Sept 2026 Malaysia Day week rolls straight into the busiest weekend of the month: a free cosplay convention in town, the last nights of the film festival, thirteen art installations on the Segama boardwalk, and a Bajau festival out on an island off Semporna. -
Sabah This Week #11 - 10-23 Sept 2026 The air is back to moderate at every Sabah station after a fortnight of haze, so this issue goes back outside: nine days of flowers and fruit at the agriculture park in Tenom, the film festival at City Mall, and the art installations going up on Dataran Segama for Malaysia Day week. -
Sabah This Week #10 — 3-16 Sept 2026 Sabah is on a haze alert as this issue goes out, so the week leans indoors: the Sabah International Expo at SICC, the film festival, Hillsong. The one outdoor trip still worth making is the Sepilok Jazz Festival. -
Sabah This Week #9 — 27 Aug–9 Sept 2026 Merdeka and Sabah Day fill the long weekend, then the Expo fills SICC from Wednesday, with the exhibition floor open Friday to Sunday. Plus jazz in the Sepilok rainforest, and the Likas bridge that isn't coming back. -
Sabah This Week #8 — 20 Aug–2 Sept 2026 Twenty-two things on across Sabah over the next fortnight — a marathon that flags off at midnight in Tawau, a three-day Merdeka tamu at Riverson, an ultra around the base of Kinabalu, and a run that starts in all 31 districts at the same minute. -
Sabah This Week #7 — 13–26 Aug 2026 Fifteen things on across Sabah over the next fortnight — a marathon in Tawau, an indigenous film festival at the Art Gallery, a Merdeka market at Riverson, and the run-up to Sabah Day. -
Sabah This Week #6 — 6–19 Aug 2026 A marine research ship opens to the public at KK Port, two travel fairs land inside ten days, Centre Point turns 36 with cosplay and esports — and diesel came down five sen. -
Sabah This Week #5 — 30 Jul–12 Aug 2026 Bon Odori and Tawau's international culture festival both land on 1 August, two runs on the 2nd, fresh diesel prices in the Toolkit — and the KK seafood house to book when the group is big. -
Sabah This Week #4 — 23 Jul–5 Aug 2026 Two weeks of Sabah in one place: Colours of Malaysia and a Space-Adventure kids' week at the malls, Bon Odori and a clown convention on the horizon, plus what the fuel-subsidy debate means for your tank. -
Sabah This Week #3 — 16–22 Jul 2026 Your Thursday shortlist of what's on in KK and beyond this week — a sunrise 10K, the Kadamaian ultra, and a run of fairs and expos to pencil in. -
Sabah This Week #2 — 9–15 Jul 2026 Diesel pump limits scrapped, a Likas hospital makes history, and five Sabah founders win Shell LiveWire — plus what's on this week. -
Sabah This Week #1 — 2–8 Jul 2026 Your first proper roundup: a green symposium, a Rungus heritage workshop, the RM2.10 diesel shake-up, and a world-first fungus found in Danum Valley.