PENAMPANG: Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) Senator Robert Lau Hui Yew said building up the quality of human resource, like what natural resource scarce Singapore did, is the way forward for Sabah and Sarawak to mitigate the failure of the fulfilment of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).
He was an invited speaker at the “Malaysia Agreement 1963 – The Way Forward for Sabah’s Economy” organised by Sabah Chinese Economic Conference with its six association members at the ITCC Grand Ballroom.
According to him, the official version of the objective of MA63 was “to bring faster economic development to the Borneo Territories, consisting of Sarawak and Sabah.” But the unofficial version was “saving Singapore from turning communist.”
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