Sunday, 28 December 2025

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Leadership training to develop real-world skills

KUCHING: The recent Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI) Training in Kuching for Club Officers emphasised the importance of developing real-world skills to thrive in today’s ever-changing and vibrant global environment. Held on 8 December 2018 at the International College of Advanced Technology Sarawak (i-CATS), Jalan Stampin Timur, Kuching, forty club officers

TH plans to put cap on depositor’s fund level

KUALA LUMPUR: Lembaga Tabung Haji’s (TH) business restructuring plan will involve placing a cap on each depositor’s fund as one of the measures to reduce government’s liability and exposure towards the depositors. Group managing director and chief executive officer Datuk Seri Zukri Samat said the move to limit the individual

‘Kill all the strays if we must’

Walikota: It’s drastic but S’wak might not have any choice KUCHING: If all else fails and rabies continues to harm humans unabated, Sarawak might as well resort to killing all the stray dogs that freely roam the city streets and villages. This may be a drastic move but if it

RM70m for reef balls: CM

KUCHING: Sarawak will place reef balls along its shoreline to deter illegal fishing in state waters and to preserve its marine resources. A whopping RM70mil special fund has been set aside for the purpose. The reef balls would be placed along the shoreline, stretching from Tanjung Datu in Lundu to

Sabah Umno reps leave en masse

KOTA KINABALU: A mass exodus from Sabah Umno has begun with nine of its 10 assemblymen and five of six MPs leaving the party yesterday. And its  two senators also walked out of the party. In an immediate reaction, Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the exodus

Uggah to Dr Xavier: Don’t just read the headline

KUCHING: Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas has said Dr Xavier Jayakumar should not accuse him without reading his whole text of speech. “Dr Xavier should have read the whole text of my original statement and not just zoomed in on the headline of the statement by a

Having sex in car not a crime: Nigeria cops

ABUJA (Nigeria): Nigerian police say it is not a crime to have sex in one’s car. The police, however, said it could be considered a crime if one has sex with underage person; or if the car is parked in a religious institution when the act takes place. The police

Suspected fraudster remanded

SARIKEI: Sarawak Commercial Crime Head, Supt Mustapha Kamal said the Commercial Crime Investigation Department (JSJK), Sarikei arrested a woman who has committed 15 cases of fraudulent tour travel packages under Section 420 of the Penal Code. He said Lenny Valerie Gundu Tangai, 37, committed the offences between March 2017 and

APM lends help to catch cobra

MIRI: It was just another typical afternoon as the sun was shining after the rainy weather for the past few days but to his shock a 57-year-old man encountered a deadly cobra inside his kitchen. The man was walking towards his kitchen when he spotted the one-metre long serpent slithering

Two men lose over RM34k in scams

KUCHING: A businessman was cheated of RM28,548 in a Macau scam on Tuesday. The 54-year old man from Miri told police that he received a phone call from a man who introduced himself as Sergeant Lim (no tel: +882 07xxxxxxx) and told the victim that there was a warrant of arrest