Sunday, 3 August 2025

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Socoe, Centexs to collaborate on digital initiatives

KUCHING: Socoe Sdn Bhd and Centre of Technical Excellence Sarawak (Centexs) are currently exploring collaborations to help make Sarawak’s digital economy initiatives a reality. Led by its chief executive officer and founder Samuel Wong, an entourage from Socoe yesterday toured the Centexs –Huawei state-of-the-art digital laboratory here. Earlier, they were

SEB recognised for leadership

KUCHING: Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB)’s commitment to pursuing brand excellence has been duly recognised. On Thursday night in Kuala Lumpur, SEB group CEO Datuk Sharbini Suhaili stood tall on stage to receive The BrandLaureate Nation Branding Award at the prestigious Nation Branding Award 2018-2019 event. The award recognises the state’s

Jaguar Land Rover to build electric cars at UK plant

LONDON: Jaguar Land Rover is making a multi-million pound investment to build electric vehicles in Britain, in a major boost for the UK government and a sector hit by the slump in diesel sales and Brexit uncertainty. Britain’s biggest car company, which built 30 percent of the UK’s 1.5 million

New York continues love affair with dissident artist Basquiat

New York has been going crazy for graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat this year, and it doesn’t look as if things are going to calm down any time soon. Hot on the heels of several exhibitions in the city’s museums and galleries dedicated to the dissident artist, who died in 1988,

New York’s Whitney Museum opens contemporary US art retrospective

From the colourful to the iconic to the downright bizarre: The Whitney Museum in New York has opened a new exhibition showcasing the history of 20th-century American art. The show features more than 120 works from the period between 1900 and 1965 by more than 70 artists, including Edward Hopper,

Basketball jamboree returns August 11

KUCHING: The Kuching Festival Sports Toto 3 on 3 Basketball Jamboree 2019 will be held at the foyer of Kuching  South City Council (MBKS) building on August 11 from 7am onwards. Sports Toto (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, which has been the main sponsor for 27 consecutive years, handed over the sponsorship of

Four alive as migrant boat sinks

ZARZIS (Tunisia): A traumatised young Malian plucked out of the sea off Tunisia after clinging for two days to debris from an inflatable which sank told Thursday of how more than 80 migrants are feared drowned. The latest tragedy came to light the same week as 44 migrants were killed

Men charged over illegal drone flying

SINGAPORE: Two Singaporean men were charged yesterday with flying drones near a military airbase without permission, the city-state’s first such prosecutions as it cracks down on illegal use of the devices. The growing popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles is a challenge for aviation regulators worldwide and the prosecutions come after

Ensure MA63 is not breached: DCM

KUCHING: Sarawak has the right to secede from Malaysia if there are serious breaches to the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63). Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri James Jemut Masing (pic) said in regard to Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s remark that action would be taken under the Sedition Act against

SPA says there’s limit to liberty

KUCHING: Everything has to be done within the law of Malaysia, said Sarawak Patriot Association (SPA) president Datuk John Lau Pang Heng. He stated this in relation to Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s recent statement that the government may apply the Sedition Act if public order and security are