SIMUNJAN: Mutual understanding and tolerance have become the backbone to the unification of Muslims in the present era, said Simunjan assemblyman Awla Dris. Speaking during the closing ceremony of Simunjan District Level Maulidur Rasul celebration at Dewan Mesra Simunjan, he added that Muslims must also live in harmony and not
LUNDU: More than 2,000 people participated in a parade held in conjunction with Maulidur Rasul celebration for Kuching Division here yesterday. The three-kilometre parade led by Tanjung Datu assemblywoman Datuk Amar Jamilah Anu began and ended at Lundu mini stadium. Thirty-eight contingents representing government departments, agencies and statutory bodies, mosques
KUCHING: Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg has called on the state’s opposition to stop politicising the implementation of Light Rail Transit (LRT) project. “At first I wanted to implement the LRT, but there were people who disagreed. They said we are wasting money, so I suspended the
KUCHING: Now that Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) has been registered, the path ahead is clear for the coalition of four Sarawak-based political parties to move ahead in what may be seen as a new era in Sarawak politics. The homegrown coalition’s objective, of course, will be to win the next
KOTA SAMARAHAN: “What do the Pakatan Harapan (PH) ministers fear most about the presence of opposition representatives in schools?” Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) information chief Datuk Idris Buang was commenting on an announcement by Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik that opposition Members of Parliament must obtain the approval of
KUCHING : The registration approval of the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) by the Registrar of Societies (RoS) has been hailed as a great achievement by the state government led by Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) political studies and governance programme lecturer Dick Lembang
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia will not allow foreign military bases on its soil, strongman premier Hun Sen said yesterday, swatting away US concerns about a possible Chinese naval site near hotly contested seas. China has lavished billions of dollars in soft loans, infrastructure and investment on the poor Southeast Asian kingdom,
HONG KONG: Three leading Hong Kong democracy campaigners pleaded not guilty yesterday to public nuisance charges over their involvement in massive rallies calling for political reform, as room for opposition in the semi-autonomous city shrinks under an assertive China. The pioneering trio are among nine activists all facing “public nuisance”
NEW DELHI: Hundreds of “manual scavengers” die each year cleaning out sewers in cities across India but a machine unveiled for Monday’s World Toilet Day could help to end that tragic record. Thousands of mostly low-caste Indians are employed in one of the world’s dirtiest jobs unclogging human waste from
BRUSSELS: European governments started to thrash out a plan for close ties with post-Brexit Britain yesterday in the last week before they gather to sign their divorce papers. Ministers from the other 27 EU members met in Brussels at the start of what Prime Minister Theresa May calls “an intense
