TAMPA: NASA is counting down to a nail-biting touchdown Monday of the $993 million Mars InSight, the first spacecraft to listen for quakes and study the inner workings of another rocky planet. No one is on board the spacecraft, which launched nearly seven months ago and has traveled some 482
KUCHING: Malaysia Productivity Council (MPC) board member Datuk Abang Abdul Karim Tun Openg welcomes the initiative taken by the government to allow AirAsia Group Sdn Bhd to take over the Kota Kinabalu (KK)-Sibu route as well as the KKBintulu route from MASwings Sdn Bhd next year. “I am pleased to
KUCHING: With the New Year just around the corner, Liansin Trading Sdn Bhd launched its limited edition promotional gift — a beautifully designed 2019 table calendar — for their customers to collect. According to its marketing executive Doris Chong Chun Ling at a press conference yesterday, Liansin is giving away
KUCHING: Showcasing Tourism Product (STP) Sarawak is one of the ways to introduce the Nexus Productivity to tourism industry players, said Tourism Productivity Nexus chairman Uzaidi Udanis. He said it also aims to make travel industry catalysts to generate multiplier effects to further enhance the activities of tourism activities in
KU C H I N G : A salesman lost RM17,000.37 after he was put in fear that he might lose all money in his bank account by scammers. The victim, 32, from Miri received a phone call from 03-23830296 on Tuesday who informed him that RM6,000 from his credit
KUCHING: Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) provided aid to the victims of Monday’s longhouse fire in Uma Bakung, Belaga, which destroyed 40 units of the dwelling and left 340 people homeless. The corporation gave food and clothing to the residents who are putting up at a church or with their relatives.
Vengeful superiors stopping female workers from lodging reports: Cuepacs PORT DICKSON: Government departments and agencies are not free from incidents of workplace violence, or so it seems. According to an official of the Congress of Unions of Employees in Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs), the fact was workplace violence involving
MIRI: The Sarawak chapter of the Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) has rejected the Education Ministry’s proposal to allow students to use hotel pools for swimming lessons as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR). Its honorary secretary-general, John Teo Peng Yew said the responsibility should fall on public pools
KUCHING: Several areas here were hit by flash floods following a heavy downpour that started at 4.30 pm yesterday. A Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department Operations Room spokesman in a statement said among the affected places were Padang Merdeka, Sarawak General Hospital area, nearby the Saujana building in Jalan Masjid,
WASHINGTON: A couple from Louisiana have more than a million reasons to be grateful this Thanksgiving after discovering a long lost jackpot-winning lottery ticket with only two weeks left to claim it. Harold and Tina Ehrenberg found the $1.8 million winning ticket, which won the southern US state’s June 6
