MUKAH: The registration of new Form Four and Form One students was held at Mara Junior Science College (MRSM Mukah) yesterday. Held at Dewan Setia Raja from 8am to 12.30pm, the event was attended by the college principal Zuraida Zaidi. Apart from the registration, other activities of the day included
KUCHING: Sarawak Teachers Union (STU) has urged the Education Ministry (MoE) to come up with proper measures and guideline for teachers as a way to ensure they are definitely happy and excited in their job. This is in line with the Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik’s statement at the NUTP
SIBU: Sarakup Indu Dayak Sarawak (SIDS) Sibu successfully held a meeting with its supreme exco here yesterday. The meeting was led by its chairperson Angelyn Uchi Maseng and also attended by its two advisors Datuk Ir Alice Jawan and Catherine Nain Abit. At the meeting, Uchi told the media that
What does mass education do to and for a developing country? How was it implemented and what have been achieved so far? In a developing post-colonial country like Malaysia, nation-building is central to the formation of a school system that can safeguard national independence, bring about economic growth, increase social
JAKARTA: The cockpit voice recorder from an Indonesian Lion Air jet that crashed in October has been recovered, officials said yesterday, a discovery that could be critical to explaining why a brand new plane fell out of the sky just after take-off. The Boeing 737 MAX vanished from radar about
MELBOURNE: Former US Open champion Sloane Stephens needed to tell herself to “get it together” yesterday before ending her Australian Open hoodoo and advancing to the second round. The fifth seed has endured a horror run at Melbourne Park since reaching the semi-final in 2013. The 25-year-old exited in the
A Chinese start-up has beaten Samsung and other smartphone manufacturers in the race to build the first device with a folding screen that essentially turns a phone into a tablet. Chinese company Royole has presented the world’s first foldable smartphone, the FlexiPai, at CES in Las Vegas. The FlexPai is
DALIAN (China): A Canadian man accused of drug smuggling in China appeared at a new trial yesterday after an upper court called for a harsher sentence in a case that could further strain ties between Beijing and Ottawa. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, was brought in handcuffs to a hearing in
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s CapitaLand is paying S$6 billion ($4.4 billion) to scoop up logistics and industrial assets from state investor Temasek, in a deal that the developer said would create Asia’s largest real estate investment manager. CapitaLand will buy the holding companies of the business of the Ascendas-Singbridge Group, which manages
SHAH ALAM: Sharp Electronics (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (SEM) unveiled its first Aquos 8K TV line-up AX1 Series with Real 8K Resolution panel (7,680 x 4,320), the highest resolution to be seen in the whole TV category. It is the first 8K TV that is commercially available in Asean market. Sharp
