KOTA SAMARAHAN: A prize pool of RM6,500 is up for grabs as 416 participants from 96 teams kicked off the Adun Muara Tuang E-Sport Cup on Monday (March 29). Samarahan Sports and Recreation Club chairman and deputy president Gulbudin Hekmateyer Rahman said the inaugural tournament would see participants battling it
PADAWAN: A pair of lovers were among four individuals nabbed by the Padawan Narcotics Crime Investigation Department in three separate drug-related raids at Zen66 Apartment in Kuching. Padawan OCPD Supt Aidil Bolhassan said the couple were arrested at about 1.20am on Thursday morning (March 25) on the ground floor of
KOTA SAMARAHAN: A religious teacher was arrested on Wednesday in Asajaya here on suspicion of molesting his nine-year-old student. Samarahan OCPD DSP Sudirman Kram said the 70-year-old suspect was arrested at his home after a police report was lodged by the victim’s mother. He said the incident came to light
KUCHING: The Gunung Tabai Cave in Bau will be sealed off from public access with immediate effect. Sarawak Police Commissioner Datuk Aidi Ismail said he has ordered the district police to seal off the area after last Wednesday’s tragedy in which an illegal gold miner lost his life. He said
BAU: An attempt by three villagers to dig for gold at Gunung Tabai Cave near Kampung Bidi, Krokong ended with one of them dead – buried under a rockfall today. Rescuers had to put off efforts to extract the body of Mat Tapa, aged 25 from Kampung Bijuray Monggag from
BAU: Kampung Skiat’s baby corn farming initiative has received a boost in the form of a ploughing tractor. Tasik Biru assemblyman Datuk Henry Harry Jinep said the machine, worth RM83,000, was purchased using the Agriculture Facilitation Fund from the Modernisation of Agriculture, Native Land and Regional Development Sarawak Ministry. Fifty-eight
BAU: The various restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the imposition of the movement control order (MCO) since last year have become catalysts for more agricultural activities in villages around this district. Tasik Biru assemblyman Datuk Henry Harry Jinep said this was due to the limited movements allowed during
BAU: An unemployed man was nabbed for possessing drugs believed to be methamphetamine at Kampung Blimbin, here last Tuesday. Bau District police chief DSP Poge Nyaon said the 26-year-old suspect was detained at 11.30am by Bau NCID team. “Following inspection conducted on the suspect, police found a cigarette box containing
MIRI: Flash flood occurrence in areas throughout the Senadin constituency may be a thing of the past following the implementation of nine projects to improve its irrigation and drainage system. Senadin assemblyman Datuk Lee Kim Shin said five of the projects are funded by the state government at RM320,000 while
KUCHING: The Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Ministry has carried out 113 integrated operations to rescue homeless people since last year until February this year. Its Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah said a total of 301 homeless people have been rescued thus far. “In 2020, a total