Kota Kinabalu
City in MalaysiaWikipedia
19
MENTIONS
8
EPISODES
7
PODCASTS
Search complete. 19 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Kota Kinabalu".
Oct 23, 2026
Phil AchlemanHOST
For the images that would make the book as complete and useful as possible.
Phil AchlemanHOST
2026, in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysian Borneo, A Guide to Hoyas of New Guinea was officially launched.
Phil AchlemanHOST
232 pages.
Phil AchlemanHOST
67 species.
Bob ProctorHOST
Do you know why? There's a definite demand for somebody that knows how to do what I'm doing.
Bob ProctorHOST
Everywhere in the world, I've worked in Shanghai, in Kosovo, in Buenos Aires, in Singapore, Kota Kinabalu, all over Europe, in Israel, in the Mideast, all over North America.
Bob ProctorHOST
Everywhere I've gone, there's a screaming need for this information.
Bob ProctorHOST
People are struggling.
Ben WestenHOST
So we were going to land in Kuala Lumpur sometime in the afternoon.
Ben WestenHOST
And then we had a flight that evening from the mainland of Malaysia over to a place called KK, which stands for Kota Kinabalu.
Ben WestenHOST
Kota Kinabalu, which is in Borneo.
Ben WestenHOST
It's in East Malaysia.
Ben WestenHOST
It's a large city over there.
BenHOST
We had a day or two between connections there, and I had the brilliant idea, let's try to squeeze in another trip within a trip during that short time in Malaysia.
BenHOST
So we were gonna land in Kuala Lumpur sometime in the afternoon, and then we had a flight that evening from the mainland of Malaysia over to a place called KK, which is stands for Kota Kinabalu, Kota Kinabalu, which is in Borneo.
BenHOST
It's on, it's in East Malaysia.
BenHOST
It's a large city over there, and there was a hotel there that I had booked for us to stay at, um, similar to the one we're at now here.
Bob ProctorHOST
It doesn't matter where you are in the world.
Bob ProctorHOST
You could be in Kota Kinabalu.
Bob ProctorHOST
You could be in Yokohama, Buenos Aires, anywhere in the world.
Bob ProctorHOST
If I dial your number, boom, like that, I'm connected to you.
Emily ChenHOST
Credibility is.
Emily ChenHOST
We are going to spend most of today's show on that credibility test, especially Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and then take a shorter detour through the week's Kota Kinabalu travel guide and the Enterprise Artificial Intelligence budgeting brief, because both of them echo the same rule.
Emily ChenHOST
Clean execution beats loud promises.
Emily ChenHOST
Chloe Tan wrote the weekly and joins me now.
5 MINS LATER
Chloe TanGUEST
And in the Philippines, whether the gap between appropriation and disbursement starts closing.
Chloe TanGUEST
If those things do not improve, the headline was just the headline.
Emily ChenHOST
I want to use the last part of the episode on the two smaller lanes from this week, the Kota Kinabalu travel piece and the Enterprise Artificial Intelligence budgeting brief, because they seemed unrelated at first.
Emily ChenHOST
Why do they belong here?
Noby LeongHOST
And, you know, he didn't, he didn't return.
Noby LeongHOST
And so within a month as well, Japan had captured Brunei, and they also captured Jesselton, which is modern-day Kota Kinabalu-
Philip GibsonHOST
Mm-hmm
Noby LeongHOST
...
Chris HensonHOST
Mm.
Ivan RentonGUEST
And then I was given an opportunity to work in Kota Kinabalu, in this little small island called Tawau.
Chris HensonHOST
Okay.
Ivan RentonGUEST
So I worked in a bar there.
Chris HensonHOST
How old were you then?
Ivan RentonGUEST
I think I was 17 at that time.
Chris HensonHOST
At 17 you were based in Kota Kinabalu?
Ivan RentonGUEST
In Kota Kinabalu, yeah.